Environmental Operative - Street Scene

Erith, DA18 4AA

As an Environmental Operative, your typical day could start with ensuring our estates are clean, safe, and well-maintained. You might be carrying out general grounds maintenance, such as weeding hard standings, and light pruning activities. Main duties will include litter picking, graffiti removal, and bulk waste clearance. Throughout the day, you'll work alongside colleagues to provide a high-quality, customer-focused environmental service.

You’ll play a key role in maintaining our estates, ensuring that residents have a clean and welcoming environment. You'll work proactively to deliver excellent estate services, taking pride in your work and demonstrating a strong commitment to the community.

You’re a hands-on person who enjoys working outdoors in all weather conditions. You take pride in keeping spaces clean and well-maintained, and you’re great at working as part of a team to get things done. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be on site five days a week.

Your role covers all aspects of environmental services and grounds maintenance. If you have experience in horticulture, estate cleaning, or environmental services, we’d love to hear from you.

To be a success in this role, you’re:

* Able to work in all weather conditions in an outdoor environment.

* Knowledgeable about health and safety regulations in relation to estate services.

* Comfortable using hand tools and mechanical horticultural appliances.

* Able to demonstrate practical experience in grounds maintenance and estate cleaning.

* Comfortable using mobile devices, using platforms such as Outlook 365 and Fix my street.

A full UK driving licence is needed to apply for this role, for covering the following services.

* Sweeper

* Bulk collection

* Parks mobile

Here are just a few of the benefits of working at Peabody:

* 30 days’ annual holiday, plus bank holidays

* two additional paid volunteering days each year

* flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal

* 4 x salary life assurance

* up to 10% pension contribution

This role will require a Basic DBS check.

Closing date: 13th August 2025.

Stage one interviews will be taking place on 20th August.

Stage two interviews will take place in person on 2nd September.

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement earlier than stated.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Peabody are not able to offer Visa sponsorship