Public Realm Operative L2 Trade

As a Public Realm Operative - Level 2, you'll play a vital role in keeping Nottingham clean, safe, and green. Working within our Waste Services team, you'll carry out a variety of tasks including street cleansing, refuse and recycling collection, grounds maintenance, and seasonal support such as winter gritting. This is a hands-on role that requires flexibility, teamwork, and a commitment to high standards of customer care. You'll operate and maintain tools, equipment, and vehicles (up to 7.5 tonnes), ensuring safety and compliance at all times. The role involves working outdoors in all weather conditions, with shifts that may include early mornings, evenings, weekends, and public holidays. You'll help create a cleaner, greener environment for our communities while representing the Council's values of equality, diversity, and excellent service.

• Health & Safety compliance: Understanding of health and safety requirements and ability to follow City Council standards.
• Safe operation of tools and equipment: Knowledge of using hand tools, light power tools, and plant safely.
• Vehicle operation: Knowledge of safe operation and maintenance of vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes gross weight, including daily checks.
• Road safety awareness: Understanding of working safely in traffic environments
• Correct manual handling: Ability to demonstrate safe lifting and carrying methods
• A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
  
  Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
• You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council ., Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference. We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes. We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.