Landscape Environmental Site Operative

Salary: £30,000 per year

Our client has an opportunity for a Landscape Environmental Site Operative to join their dynamic small team on a full-time basis in Guildford. Paying circa £30,000.

They are an ecological contractor, providing solutions to compensate for loss of habitat caused by development and building works. They design, create and enhance habitats for wildlife for a wide range of clients and provide support to ecologists when they’re working with protected species or trapping and translocating reptiles.

The type of work that our team will undertake can include but not limited to: wildlife mitigation, newt and reptile fencing to facilitate trapping and translocation prior to construction, other fencing including stock, water vole, badger and otter fencing, badger sett exclusion and artificial sett construction, bush cutting, tree felling and general vegetation clearance, soft landscaping including planting trees, shrubs, and grass seeding, invasive species mitigation including Japanese Knotweed and Himalayan Balsam management.

Due to the varied nature of the role, the successful candidate will have experience of working in the landscape sector working on construction sites, in country parks; or in the horticulture, farming or forestry industries. You must be enthusiastic with a love for the outdoors and the environment.

Successful candidates must

have a full UK driving licence and their own car.
experience in the forestry, agricultural and/or landscaping familiarity with construction health & safety rules and procedures confidence to work independently, and as part of a team

Ideally, the successful candidate will also have the following tickets or experience (not essential)

a valid CSCS card (or willing to attain one)
CS30/31/39/40 chainsaw
NTPC brushcutter
PA1/PA6 herbicide spraying
chipper qualification
CPCS excavator
machinery maintenance
B&E on licence

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