Grave Digging Operative
Hours
- 42 hours per week, Monday to Friday
- On-call rota for weekend standby works
The role of Grave Digging Operative:
- Safe preparation, digging, and management of grave sites through manual and machine excavation
- Ensuring all graves are excavated safely using appropriate shoring equipment, as per instructed date and time
- Correctly reinstating graves following burials and topping up as required
- Standby and call-out on rota outside normal working hours (weekends and bank holidays)
- Liaising with clients, stakeholders, and cemetery representatives as part of the burial process
- Planning and managing workloads around burial requirements
- Operating plant and machinery including mini-excavators, ride-on mowers, compact tractors, and sweepers
- Driving company vehicles and towing trailers
The ideal Grave Digging Operative:
- Experience using mini excavators within confined environments — preferable
- Experience towing trailers up to 3.5T
- Experience and knowledge of general Streetcare duties and associated plant and machinery
- Full driving licence (over 3.5T)
- Accredited certification in the use of mini excavators up to 3T — preferable
