Serco Plc
Grounds Operative
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Location: Serco Transport Depot, Watton, IP25 6JB
Salary: £29,376.38 plus excellent benefits
Schedule: Permanent, Full-time, Monday to Friday, 7am to 3.30pm
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As a Grounds Operative in our Breckland Grounds Maintenance team, you’ll help maintain parks, green spaces, and public areas to a high standard throughout the year. Your work will help create safe, attractive, and welcoming environments that communities can take pride in.
From maintaining landscaped areas to operating specialist machinery, you’ll play an important role in delivering services that have a positive impact on local communities. Our work touches lives every day, and you’ll be part of a team focused on quality, care, and creating impactful solutions for the future.
What you’ll do as a Grounds Operative
- Carry out planned grounds maintenance activities on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis using a range of machinery and equipment.
- Undertake work across a variety of service areas including horticulture, grass cutting, and landscaping.
- Follow contract specifications and understand the differing requirements and ground conditions across the contract area.
- Inspect, operate, and report on the condition of machinery and vehicles before and after use.
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness for equipment, machinery, and vehicles.
- Work safely at all times and ensure all health and safety requirements are met.
Does this sound like you?
- Experience in a Grounds maintenance or horticulture role.
- Experience of towing plant machinery.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and members of the public.
- Self-motivated with a willingness to learn new skills and undertake further training.
- Clean UK driving licence and flexibility to work across different grounds maintenance activities.
- NVQ Level 2 in Horticulture is desirable.
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What we offer
- 20 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)
- Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (we currently offer over 60 different apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
- Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual General Practitioner (GP) service.
- Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment, and travel.
- Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity.
- Our employee networks support connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including veterans, LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, and people from all cultural backgrounds.
Vetting and checks:
As well as checking eligibility to work in the UK, you will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.
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A little bit about us:
At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure, and Citizen Services, we’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation, and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.
Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, the Top Great British Employer of Veterans 2026, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.
- Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans, and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
- Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).
For support with your application, please contact recruitmentuk@serco.com.
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