Grounds Maintenance Operative


Company:	Amey
Salary:	from £27,426 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	WR11 8TZ
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Sept 2026
Closing date:	21 Oct 2026

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Summary

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Grounds Maintenance Operative in HMP Long Lartin.

The standard hours of work are 39 hours per week Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm, with an hour earlier finish every Friday.

The salary is £27,426.

At Amey, we’re supporting our justice client, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) by providing them with safe, clean and efficient prisons.

By using our facilities management expertise, we help keep 60 secure premises across England and Wales running smoothly.

The Grounds Maintenance Operative plays an important part in ensuring the planned and reactive maintenance work within the prisons is carried out in a safe, compliant and timely manner.

What you will do:

General maintenance, such as grass cutting, hedge trimming, clearing leaves and litter, verges, weed spraying, tree care, horticulture activities such as. planting, pruning and seeding.

Erect and dismantle equipment, operating light plant and power tools, undertake cutting equipment checks.

Setting out, making sports pitches including grass and tarmac with upkeep of artificial, synthetic pitches in recreational areas.

Painting sundry equipment.

Drainage works.

General good housekeeping, including litter picking around the grounds if required.

All other FM duties as required directed by team manager.

This role will also support both local and business zero carbon programmes, working towards zero carbon in a strategic and lean manner as and where it is appropriate.

Responsible for ensuring H&S standards are achieved across the contract.

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