Estate Assistant
The Guinness Partnership
Manchester, UK
Published 3 days ago
Housing / Neighbourhood management
Job Description
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an Estate Assistant to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis across our sites in Oldham, Bolton, and Blackburn. You will provide a high-quality cleaning, grounds, and garden service, ensuring compliance with agreed standards, specifications, and timescales. This will include cleaning internal communal areas and keeping external areas well maintained such as refuse removal and basic gardening.
You will represent Guinness on site, fostering positive working relationships with customers, contractors, and colleagues to provide access, report any responsive repairs, fly tipping, graffiti, and safeguarding alerts.
What we're looking for
We are a customer-focussed organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You will not only be an experienced Estate Assistant, but you will also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile. You will also be able to demonstrate the below essential skills:
What we can offer you
We offer an excellent benefits package that help make The Guinness Partnership a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
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About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an Estate Assistant to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis across our sites in Oldham, Bolton, and Blackburn. You will provide a high-quality cleaning, grounds, and garden service, ensuring compliance with agreed standards, specifications, and timescales. This will include cleaning internal communal areas and keeping external areas well maintained such as refuse removal and basic gardening.
You will represent Guinness on site, fostering positive working relationships with customers, contractors, and colleagues to provide access, report any responsive repairs, fly tipping, graffiti, and safeguarding alerts.
What we're looking for
We are a customer-focussed organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You will not only be an experienced Estate Assistant, but you will also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile. You will also be able to demonstrate the below essential skills:
- Proven professional experience of delivering grounds maintenance across a variety of sites and garden types.
- Experience and knowledge of lawn, shrub, and plant care.
- Proven experience of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction
- Ability to carry out physical tasks within Health & Safety guidelines.
- Ability to work effectively within a team and without high levels of supervision.
- Able to demonstrate Guinness Behaviours
- Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, including COSHH and PPE
- Full clean UK driving license
- An understanding of how to use mobile working devices e.g. tablets.
- Knowledge and experience of the safe and regulatory use of horticultural fungicides and pesticides
- NVQ 2 in Horticulture or of RHS/City and Guilds/HND equivalent
- PA1 and PA6 NPTC Certificates
What we can offer you
We offer an excellent benefits package that help make The Guinness Partnership a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
- Competitive pay £25,095 per annum
- 35 hours per week Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm
- Helping to save for your future! Guinness will contribute up to 9% towards your pension a matched basis.
- Excellent lifestyle benefits portal including cycle to work scheme and fantastic discounts at supermarkets and many other shops, on-line retailers & leisure activities.
- Health care cashback plan
- Employee Assistance Programme, plus more!
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