Neighbourhood Services are seeking a Senior Community operative on a permanent basis.This post is a critical role, ensuring the operational effectiveness of our key front-line service ensuring excellent performance is upheld and working practices are undertaken in a safe and efficient manner.
As a result, we are looking for a proactive and innovative individual who has an eye for detail and has suitable operational background experience in a Street Cleansing and Horticultural field.
The successful candidate will have a Can do, positive attitude to problem solving and strive to demonstrate council values and focus on outcomes for the community.
Your primary duty will be to oversee the Scunthorpe based grounds maintenance service ensuring our green spaces are well kept, using state of the art innovation to our integrated weed plan driving a reduction in the use of chemical treatments. In addition, you will take responsibility for large scale traffic management projects for the purpose of deep cleansing and vegetation works this may include operationally supervising a team undertaking litter picking, maintaining community bins and responding to customer reports of Flytipping, sharps and other hazardous waste.This role is physically demanding, involves heavy lifting, walking considerable distances and working in all weather conditions whilst operating plant machinery on the highway. You will motivate your team to ensure a high level of performance is maintained and all Safe Systems of Work are adhered to in line with national best practice.Due to the nature of the work, you will need to have a flexible approach to your working hours combined with a willingness to work evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the service where enhancements will be payable.Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.For further information regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact James Todd - Street Cleansing Manager or Rob Watson – Greenspaces Manager.We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.
