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Occupation

Building maintenance operatives

Building maintenance operatives perform various maintenance, cleaning and repair activities for buildings, grounds and other facilities. They repair and renovate structures and components, fences, gates and roofs, assemble furniture and perform plumbing and electrical activities. They also check heating and ventilation systems, air quality and humidity in the building.

Based on analysing 7328 job ads this job spends 15.7% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 11 skills asked for, of which 3.9% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £20,475 - £22,015.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Tees Valley and Durham
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Highlands and Islands
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
North Eastern Scotland

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 138 job ads (13.8%)

Ensure the safety of endangered species and protected areas

Found in 105 job ads (10.5%)

Inspect industrial equipment

Found in 79 job ads (7.9%)

Implement environmental protection measures

Found in 76 job ads (7.6%)

Perform cleaning activities in an environmentally friendly way

Found in 69 job ads (6.9%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Health and safety regulations

Found in 1892 job ads (4.5%)

Attend to detail

Found in 1190 job ads (2.8%)

Maintenance and repair

Found in 985 job ads (2.3%)

Communication

Found in 920 job ads (2.2%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 841 job ads (2.0%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 541 job ads (11.9%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 267 job ads (5.9%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 262 job ads (5.7%)

Services to buildings and landscape activities

Found in 257 job ads (5.6%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 184 job ads (4.0%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.