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United Utilities

Regional Grounds Maintenance Operative

Location flexibility:  3 office days / week – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home
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Job Description

We are looking for a Regional Grounds Maintenance Operatives to join our team, delivering essential site maintenance and recovery activities across both operational and non‑operational land. Your work will help ensure our Water and Wastewater Treatment sites — along with a wide range of owned land — remain safe, well‑maintained, and operating to the highest standards.

In this role, you’ll carry out grounds maintenance, vegetation management, soft landscaping, arboriculture tasks, and building maintenance, supporting the delivery of our site maintenance plans and ensuring compliance with company quality, performance, and safety standards.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Undertake grounds maintenance, vegetation management, soft landscaping, adhoc works and building maintenance activities on a variety of sites.
  • Carry out physically demanding tasks in a fast changing outdoor environment with exposure to and in close proximity to environmental hazards and sewerage contamination.
  • Carry out recovery works on operational and non-operational land, this could include filter bed vegetation removal, Pontoon Works. This list is not exhaustive and may require specific training to carry out some tasks.
  • Operate and perform daily checks on a variety of powered and non-powered plant, tools and equipment including vehicles, trailers, ride on mowers, agricultural vehicles/equipment, large plant, robots and small hand held tools. (This list is not exhaustive as the business grows and we add more machinery to the business further training will be given)
  • Record the work completed on a corporate system.
  • Carry out minor remedial work on non-assets (flags, fencing etc.), appropriate to the level of competence and training.
  • Contribute towards the training of new starters from the Youth Employment Program and employment agencies.
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Adhere to Health and Safety requirements and to comply with regulations and internal company policy.
  • Identify any site standards improvements and winter work during the scheduled visits.
  • Application and handling of pesticides including invasive weed management
  • What You'll Bring

    • Practical experience in grounds maintenance, vegetation management, soft landscaping, and building maintenance.
    • Confident use of grounds maintenance machinery such as pedestrian mowers, strimmers, blowers, ride‑on mowers, tractors, pole saws, and robotics.
    • Ability to plan and deliver both scheduled and unscheduled works across multiple sites.
    • Strong communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
    • Ability to carry out dynamic risk assessments.
    • Excellent customer service skills

    Qualifications

    Essential Qualifications

    • Full UK Driving Licence – Cat B

    Desirable Qualifications

    • City & Guilds Level 2 Principles of Safe Handling and Application of Pesticides (PA1).
    • City & Guilds Level 2 Award in Safe Application of Pesticides using Hand‑Held Equipment (PA6/PA6INJ/PA6W).
    • NPTC Level 2 Certificate of Competence in Manually Fed Wood Chipper Operations.
    • City & Guilds NPTC Level 2 Award in Safe Use of a Powered Pole Pruner.

    What We Offer

    • A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays
    • A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover
    • Up to 7.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements
    • A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme
    • MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions
    • Best Doctors
    • Salary Finance
    • Wealth at Work courses
    • Deals and discounts
    • EVolve Car Scheme
    • Employee Assistance Plan
    • Mental health first aiders
    • ShareBuy
    • MORE Choices flexible benefits
    • Enhanced parental leave schemes

    Working at United Utilities

    3 office days / week – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home

    A little flex time

    Company employees:

    7,500

    Gender diversity (m:f):

    65:35

    Hiring in countries

    United Kingdom

    Office Locations

    Company benefits

    26 days annual leave + bank holidays
    Annual bonus – Bonus levels vary depending on your role grade
    Buy or sell annual leave – Buy or sell up to 5 days per year
    Death in service – covered for 4 times pensionable earnings
    Cinema discounts
    Employee recognition scheme – Colleague led recognition scheme with monthly winners
    Cycle to work scheme
    Dental coverage
    Collaboration spaces
    Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
    Employee assistance programme
    Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 26 weeks leave at full pay
    Enhanced pension match/contribution – Up to 21% combined contributions
    Enhanced sick days
    Ergonomic workstations
    Faith rooms
    Family health insurance
    Further education support – Ongoing learning opportunities through apprenticeships and vocational training
    Gym membership – On-site gym at our head office & discounts on local gyms for those not based there
    Health cash plan
    Health insurance
    In house training
    Mental health days – 1 wellbeing day per year (in addition to annual leave)
    Mental health first aiders
    Compassionate leave
    Enhanced paternity leave – Up to 4 weeks leave at full pay
    Mental health platform access – Offering mental health consultations, health checks, digital fitness resources, and wellbeing support.
    On-site gym
    Open to compressed hours
    Open to part time work for some roles
    Adoption leave
    Private GP service – via our virtual GP - available to you and your loved ones
    Professional subscriptions
    Referral bonus – of £500
    Neonatal leave
    Reservist leave – Reservists/Army Reserve with 6 months service are entitled to 10 days paid leave per year to attend the annual training camp.
    Restaurant discounts
    Secure on-site parking
    Sensory-Friendly Setup
    Shared parental leave
    Will writing
    Carer’s leave
    On-site childcare – Only at our head office
    Income protection