HWRC Operative

  • Newport, United Kingdom
  • Newport City Council
  • Full-Time
  • On-Site

Job Description:

Contract to start ASAP

Duration: 6 weeks with a possible extension.

Responsibilities:

To use a high level of gardening skills to meet the horticultural standards within the specification and to undertake all horticultural operations, including:

Grassing cutting duties/strimming/hedge trimming/clearing leaves and litter

Planting out of bedding plants, trees and shrubs

Shrub bed planting and maintenance (e.g. pruning and division)

Application of chemicals

Maintenance, setting out and marking sports facilities

General soft landscaping works (e.g. top-soiling, cultivation, seeding, shrub-bed renewal etc.)

To operate, and be responsible for ensuring that all vehicles, plant and machinery are kept in good working orders and comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Road Traffic Regulations

To report any defects in tools and equipment to line manager

To take reasonable care of own and others safety; to co-operate with managers/ supervisors in complying with statutory health & safety duties; to report incidents, accidents, faults etc

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