Lead Grounds Operative – Bath (Mobile Role)

Lead Grounds Operative – Bath (Mobile Role)


💷 Salary: £28,838 per annum
🕒 Hours: 40 per week
📍 Location: Bath (Mobile role – local travel required)
📄 Contract: Permanent

About the Role
We are looking for a Lead Grounds Operative to join our Estates team, delivering high-quality grounds maintenance services across our communities within the social housing sector.


This is a hands-on, outdoor role where you’ll lead by example, ensuring our estates are safe, clean and well-maintained. You’ll play a key part in creating attractive outdoor spaces for residents while upholding high standards of health and safety.


Key Responsibilities

• Lead grounds maintenance activities including grass cutting, hedge trimming, weeding and shrub care
• Operate and maintain horticultural machinery safely (mowers, hedge cutters, strimmers, blowers)
• Carry out inspections of communal areas, reporting defects, fly-tipping and safety concerns
• Ensure compliance with health and safety procedures at all times
• Engage positively with customers and respond to queries
• Record completed work using handheld devices
• Support seasonal duties such as gritting and emergency estate work
• Lead higher-risk tasks such as weed spraying and specialist equipment use

About You

• Previous experience in grounds maintenance with basic horticultural knowledge
• Qualified in Horticulture Level 1 and PA1 & PA6 (pesticide use)
• Understanding of COSHH and PUWER regulations
• Experience using horticultural tools and machinery safely
• Good level of physical fitness and ability to work outdoors year-round
• Basic IT skills (training provided)
• Full UK manual driving licence
• LANTRA certification

If you enjoy working outdoors, take pride in high standards and want to make a visible difference in local communities, apply now.


Send your CV over cjones@rgbrec.co.uk or call Carol on 07375412872