Labourer, Maintenance​/Cleaning, Groundskeeper

Job Title:

Facilities Maintenance Labourer (Outdoor Grounds)

Location:

Sittingbourne, Kent Days:
Monday to Friday, full-time hours: 07.30am - 16.30pm pay :
12.71ph (47.5hr week ) About the Role

We are looking for a reliable and motivated Facilities Maintenance Labourer to join our team. You ll work across approximately 9.5 acres of outdoor grounds, supporting the upkeep and maintenance of the site . The role includes working with machinery and equipment, dealing with external environment tasks, and operating in all weather conditions.

• General site repairs & maintenance (building fabric, hard surfaces, grounds infrastructure)
• Landscaping & gardening support (beds, edges, planting, tidying)
• Drainage & plumbing assistance (clearing gullies, verifying drainage flows)
• Vacuum tankering, jet-washing, gulley-sucking operations
• Road sweeping & litter picking throughout the site, including access roads and service areas
• Industrial & confined space cleaning work (as required)
• Emergency clean-ups & site housekeeping (clearance after weather events, spillages, debris removal)
• Maintaining the moat and water-edge areas, ensuring cleanliness and safe condition
• Handling recycling materials: segregation, transport, stacking as needed
• Helping to build toward supervising outside grounds labourers: supporting the team, taking instruction, beginning to coordinate daily tasks

• Valid UK driver s licence (essential)
• Experience in maintenance or a related field (grounds, outdoor site work, machinery operations etc)
• Physically able to work outdoors in all weather conditions
• Comfortable working with machinery and equipment (jet-washers, vacuum tankers, sweepers) or willing to learn
• Strong team player with a positive attitude and ambition to progress into a supervisory role
• Good communication skills, able to report issues, work safely and follow procedures
• Willingness to undergo training as required and to take on expanding responsibilities

• Monday Friday schedule, enabling a good work-life balance
• Hands-on outdoor role across a large site (9.5 acres) with variety of tasks
• Training and career progression: the role offers a path into supervision of outside grounds labourers
• Opportunity to work at an established industrial site ( with diverse duties
• Supportive working environment and development of new skills in machinery operations, outdoor maintenance and site management