Field Maintenance Technician - AVH Parks

Job description

Field Maintenance Technician (AVH Parks) Salary: Circa £31,000 annual Full-time , 37 hours per week/permanent Location: Based at AWinning Nottinghamshire Shape the places people love to visit Imagine spending your working day outdoors, surrounded by nature and fantastic scenery. At AVH Parks, you'll play a vital role in maintaining and enhancing essential operational infrastructure, you'll help ensure this environment remains safe, accessible and thriving. This is more than grounds maintenance. It's an opportunity to care for a unique setting where wildlife and water management come together. Every day brings something different, whether you're maintaining managing trees, grassland or reed beds, operating specialist equipment or helping protect valuable environmental habitats. If you enjoy practical outdoor work, take pride in high standards and want a role where you can see the impact of your efforts, we'd love to hear from you. What you'll be doing As a Field Maintenance Technician, you'll be responsible for maintaining our sites to the highest standards while supporting a safe environment for colleagues and stakeholders. You'll: Deliver planned grounds maintenance programmes across parks and operational sites. Maintain reed beds, waterways and surrounding habitats. Operate a variety of grounds maintenance machinery and equipment. Carry out seasonal maintenance activities to keep sites looking their best year-round. Collect water quality samples and support environmental monitoring activities. Assist with inspections, audits and compliance activities. Work collaboratively with colleagues, landowners, business partners and local stakeholders. Help maintain site assets, infrastructure and access routes. Champion health, safety and environmental best practice. The role includes travel across sites and occasional overnight stays away from home. What you'll bring Essential Experience in grounds maintenance or associated asset maintenance activities. Experience using horticultural or agricultural plant and machinery. Experience using hand-held equipment such as strimmer’s, hedge cutters or brush cutters. Full UK driving licence. Trailer towing entitlement. Strong communication and organisational skills. Good attention to detail and time management skills. A positive attitude and ability to work independently and as part of a team. Inclusion at Anglian Water: We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong. Join us If you're looking for a role where you can work outdoors, contribute to the success of an essential working project and help protect a unique natural environment for future generations, we'd love to hear from you. Come and help us make every visit to our sites a safe one.