Grounds Maintenance Operative

Grounds Maintenance Operative

37 hours per week, based in Preston

£25,948.89 per annum (£13.45 per hour)

This is a Real Living Wage job

Our busy, high-performing Green Care team are responsible for maintaining CGA’s green spaces and communal grounds through grass cutting, hedge cutting, pruning and weed control in our communities.

You’ll be joining our fantastic, friendly grounds maintenance team, helping to make sure our community green spaces are well kept, as well as delivering soft landscaping services and improvements to our neighbourhoods in Preston and surrounding areas.

Ideally, we’re looking for people with experience in using a range of petrol powered ground care machinery, (including ride-on mowers), but it's more important that you are enthusiastic, hard-working and willing to learn. You'll also have a good knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety.

• Experience of using ride on mowers, petrol-powered hand held machinery (including strimmers, mowers and hedge trimmers)
• Experience of carrying out landscaping tasks such as using chainsaws, turfing etc
• Trailer towing experience
• Spraying licences (PA1 / PA6)

We are a values-based organisation who truly care about our employees, their health, safety and wellbeing. We aim for a great employee experience and that includes offering a range of benefits – have a look at the attached leaflet for more information. Our holiday entitlement starts at 26 days plus bank holidays (including your birthday off and Christmas closure!).
We also offer a great pension scheme where CGA will pay in contributions up to 10%, a company-paid health cash plan for you and your dependents (including 24/7 GP), enhanced sick pay and parental leave, reward and recognition scheme, wellbeing support, training and development and much more.

Inclusion is key for us. We would love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role, those who may be underrepresented in our organisation. We aim to be reflective of the communities in which we operate and if you speak a second language this can come in handy!

This is a Real Living Wage role. The Real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate based on the cost of living. It is voluntarily paid by over 13,000 UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a wage which meets everyday needs. Find out more at

Community Gateway own and manage around 7000 homes across the city of Preston, but we are so much more than just a landlord. We aim to offer great customer service, providing safe, well-maintained and affordable homes, and making a positive difference to the communities in which we work. We make sure that we manage our business to the highest of standards and are working to create a sustainable future.

And finally, we want to be a great place to work...so if you think you have the skills, experience and can live our values, then we want to hear from you..

The closing date for this role is Thursday 1st October 2026 at midnight with interviews held on Wednesday 14th October 2026.