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Grave digger
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13.47 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | PR16JY |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | THE BEST CONNECTION GROUP |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | gravind3 |
Summary
The Best Connection are recruiting for a cemetery operative to work in Preston.
Main Responsibilities and Key Tasks:
To prepare, dig and backfill graves, both manually and with excavator, including the use of necessary shoring, shuttering and plant in accordance with agreed procedures to statutory and Health & Safety requirements and agreed standards
To operate all machinery, tools and equipment in a safe and appropriate manner, and in accordance with the manufacturers recommendations and with due regard to Health & Safety and Safe Systems of work
To locate and identify burial plots and measure and mark out grave spaces from information/maps provided by the Cemeteries Officer. To maintain contact with the Cemetery Supervisor on all issues
To be responsible for the general condition, cleanliness, and daily inspection of your allocated vehicles, hand tools and machinery and the reporting of all known defects as they arise to the Vehicle Maintenance department
To maintain grassland areas using pedestrian and ride on machinery operated in accordance with the service specification, and in line with good horticultural practice#
To hold a valid 360 digger licence
Hours are Monday to Friday on days - 42 hours a week
Main Responsibilities and Key Tasks:
To prepare, dig and backfill graves, both manually and with excavator, including the use of necessary shoring, shuttering and plant in accordance with agreed procedures to statutory and Health & Safety requirements and agreed standards
To operate all machinery, tools and equipment in a safe and appropriate manner, and in accordance with the manufacturers recommendations and with due regard to Health & Safety and Safe Systems of work
To locate and identify burial plots and measure and mark out grave spaces from information/maps provided by the Cemeteries Officer. To maintain contact with the Cemetery Supervisor on all issues
To be responsible for the general condition, cleanliness, and daily inspection of your allocated vehicles, hand tools and machinery and the reporting of all known defects as they arise to the Vehicle Maintenance department
To maintain grassland areas using pedestrian and ride on machinery operated in accordance with the service specification, and in line with good horticultural practice#
To hold a valid 360 digger licence
Hours are Monday to Friday on days - 42 hours a week
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