Yorkshire Housing
Environmental Services Team Leader
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Environmental Services Team Leader
Environmental Services Team Leader – Yorkshire Housing
We’re looking for an experienced and customer-focused Environmental Services Team Leader to join our team, leading the delivery of grounds maintenance and environmental services across our communities in Yorkshire.
About the Role
In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring our outdoor spaces are maintained to a high standard, supporting the delivery of safe, sustainable, and customer-focused services while leading and developing a team to achieve excellent results.
We believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go — so if you want to work for a company that is truly flexible, where you are challenged and valued, this could be the role for you!
What We’re All About
Here at Yorkshire Housing, our customers are at the heart of what we do – we call it being customer obsessed. We own and manage nearly 20,000 homes (and counting) across Yorkshire, with a mission to make it possible for our customers to have a place they’re proud to call home.
Creating safe, attractive, and well-maintained outdoor environments is an essential part of delivering great places to live. As an Environmental Services Team Leader, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our grounds maintenance and environmental services are delivered to a high standard while driving performance, value for money, and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities & Key Tasks
You’ll provide leadership and direction to operatives and contractors, ensuring that grounds maintenance and environmental services are delivered effectively and aligned with organisational priorities.
Core Duties Include:
- Lead and support teams delivering grounds maintenance and environmental services
- Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring work is completed on time and to a high standard
- Manage minor works programmes including fencing, landscaping, tree planting, and woodland maintenance
- Monitor performance, quality, and customer satisfaction, implementing improvements where needed
- Manage grounds maintenance contractors through regular performance reviews and meetings
- Build positive relationships with customers, community groups, housing teams, and other stakeholders
- Prepare specifications and support the delivery of environmental improvement projects
- Manage environmental health-related activities, including invasive species control and sharps removal
- Champion health and safety compliance, including risk assessments, COSHH, vehicle management, and incident reporting
- Prepare and deliver performance reports to support decision-making and continuous improvement
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This is a varied and hands-on role where you’ll combine leadership, technical expertise, and operational management to deliver high-quality environmental services that make a real difference to our customers and communities.
Requirements & Qualifications
We’re looking for someone who is a strong leader, technically knowledgeable, and passionate about delivering excellent services. You’ll bring:
Essential:
- A recognised qualification or equivalent experience in horticulture, landscape maintenance, or community-based services
- Experience managing and developing people
- Experience recruiting, training, and supporting teams
- The ability to motivate others and maintain high standards across a service
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively
- Experience of trailer and plant towing
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- A proactive approach to performance management and service improvement
- The ability to think strategically and deliver against targets
- A commitment to delivering excellent customer service
- A full UK driving licence
- Flexibility to work:
- occasional evenings
- emergency call-outs
- outside normal office hours when required
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What We Offer
We provide:
Competitive Remuneration & Holidays:
- £39,524.10 per year base salary (35 hours per week)
- £2,000 car allowance per year
- 26 days annual leave, rising each year to 31 days, plus Bank Holidays
Benefits Package:
- Health cash plan (e.g., prescriptions, eye tests)
- Retail discounts
- Pension scheme, where we match up to 9% of your contributions
- Flexible working with a "Hub, Home, Roam" approach
- Development opportunities via internal and external training
Wellbeing Support:
- Access to a library of free fitness classes
- Instant GP service (My GP)
- Free counselling sessions with trained professionals
Why Apply?
At Yorkshire Housing, we’re actively building an environment that is inclusive, diverse, and supportive, where everyone can contribute their best work and be themselves. We know difference makes us stronger, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
We recognise that not all qualifications fit neatly on paper — if your experience looks slightly different but you believe you can bring value, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
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