General Environmental Operative
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Loughborough, LE12 7TZ |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5391 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Croft Highways, Arbor Road, Croft, Leicestershire LE9 3GE / Mountsorrel Highways, Granite Way, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, LE12 7TZ
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £25,998 - £27,273 per annum
Working Hours: 46.25 hours Summer Months 27.75 hours Winter Months
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 15th June 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC (in person)
About the Role
Come and work as part of a team that delivers a seasonally led, best value, customer-focussed service throughout Leicestershire and occasionally, surrounding counties. You will need to work flexibly, efficiently, and effectively to maintain environmental areas such as verges, hedges and footpaths in accordance with statutory requirements.
Activities include Grass Cutting, Hand Hedge Trimming and Verge Maintenance.
The nature of the work may involve you carrying out activities outside of normal working hours, including night, weekends and public holidays in all weather conditions to meet the needs of the service. The postholder may be required to support a call-out rota to cover evening, weekend and public holiday emergencies. (Exclusion will apply to employees aged under 21).
This role is a “Safety Critical Post” and, consequently, subject to random drug and alcohol testing in accordance with our policies and procedures. A copy of our Substance Misuse Policy and Procedure is available upon request.
About You
To apply for this post, you
- hold the following qualifications.
- NVQ 2 in Highways Maintenance or similar
- Skilled Road-worker Trades Test Assessment
- New Roads and Streetworks Act (NRSWA) Qualification (Operative)
- National Highways Sector Scheme 12D
OR have demonstrable evidence of the skills and experience as outlined in the job description, together with a commitment to attain the essential qualifications
- hold a Valid Driving Licence; ideally you also hold a valid Large Goods Vehicle Licence and CPC Trained with current DQC Card
- have experience of working in a highways or civil engineering environment, are able to take measurements and calculate quantities e.g. areas, volumes and weights and use information technology (e.g. personal computer, PDS, mobile phones etc) in a work-related context
- have extensive knowledge of construction specifications, materials, compaction, and workmanship requirements. Also of safe working practices when using plant and machinery
- know about Construction Health, Safety and Environmental requirements and safe working procedures, legislation including driver’s hours, PPE and manual handling and of Chapter 8 Traffic Management Regulations
- can drive a mower; ideally you are also able to tow and manoeuvre a trailer
- have core communication skills both written and verbal, you can and are willing to work with everyone in the team. You can use your own initiative in planning and prioritising. You are able to respond confidently to customers & colleagues with understanding & diplomacy whilst maintaining an objective & professional stance.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Andy Love, Supervisor
Telephone: 0116 305 0964
Email: andrew.love@leics.gov.uk
or
Paul Hand, Supervisor
Email: paul.hand@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
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