Grounds Maintenance Operative

Job description

Grounds Maintenance Operative | Edinburgh

Job Role - Fixed Term Contract

Salary - £13.45 per hour plus bonus

Are you enthusiastic and hardworking? Are you highly motivated?

If you identify with the above, this role was made for you!

And most importantly, you will be joining a company that can offer valuable career prospects and believes in investing in its people.

Glendale, a family owned company since 1989, is a market-leading, technology-focused, respected, environmental services provider. At the forefront of green service provision in the UK Glendale has revenues of over £65m and is proud to say we have been awarded the 2025 Pro Landscape Business Awards Supreme Winner and the BALI Employer Excellence Award Winner for 2025.

Activities throughout the UK include grounds management, arboriculture, landscaping, estate management, vegetation control, woodland management, supply and relocation of plants and semi-mature trees, winter services and the management of sports facilities.

Committed to the environment, Glendale is a Carbon Neutral business that seeks to improve the environment through our activities and go above and beyond to ensure that the planet is not adversely affected by our business. From ensuring local parks and open spaces are maintained to a high standard, to tree safety through our arboricultural teams, to saving mature trees through our Civic Tree business and ensuring sustainable design through our landscape architecture practice.

Glendale offered the full range of landscape services from one unique source of professionals.

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General maintenance of areas to include both cut and collect and cut and drop using both ride‑on and pedestrian machinery.

Undertake horticultural operations; hedge trimming, shrub bed maintenance and planting, strimming and blowing, hard surface maintenance, tree maintenance, chemical application, garden clearance and general landscape works.

Removing litter, emptying litter / dog bins and clearing leaves.

Carry out duties in accordance with best practice.

Interview date:
Interviews will be ongoing – apply as soon as possible!

• Employee health cash plan
• Employee discount portal – discounts on travel bookings, high street vouchers, gift cards, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities and your day‑to‑day spending
• Pension scheme
• Company sick pay
• Genuine career progression
• Continuous professional development

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We are proud to be Equal Opportunity employers and are committed to inclusion and diversity.

If you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as interviews will be held throughout the process.

Please note that if you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.