Highways Lead Operative/Ganger

1 week ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Dyer & Butler Full time
About The Role
Highways Lead Operative / Ganger
Peterborough
21 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Company van plus fuel card (business use only)
Out of Hours /Call out over time
Generous pension scheme / Life assurance / Personal accident insurance
Ongoing training & career development / HGV/LGV driver training
Milestone Infrastructure look is the UKs leading highways maintenance provider looking after after 48,000km of roads, 300,000 lighting assets and 20,000 miles of footways, always with a view to ensuring that all works are carried out as sustainably as possible and with minimal impact to local communities.
Since 2013, Milestone Infrastructure have been delivering a Term Maintenance Contract (TMC) with Peterborough City Council (PCC) to carry out highways' maintenance and improvement schemes on their network. The contract, which continues to 2028, includes the delivery of individual highway and structural projects of varying values.
We are currently looking to recruit a Lead Operative / Ganger to work on our Peterborough Highway Services contract.
As a Lead Operative / Ganger you will be part of our Highways Maintenance Team who are responsible for Delivery of the Term Maintenance Highways contract for Peterborough Highway Services.
As the Lead Operative / Ganger your duties & responsibilities will be:
  • Lead a minimum two men to carry out work safely in accordance with design drawings and specification
  • Take ownership and leadership of gang including daily material ordering and planning
  • Leading a operations team undertaking various labouring duties including excavation works, laying and levelling of kerbs, slabs and bitumen macadam, drainage and gully installations
  • Carry out Daily Safety briefings
  • Ensuring that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of own and other persons and to comply with all local and statutory Health & Safety procedures
  • Operating small plant and equipment used in highway maintenance with guidance from Site Supervisor
  • Installing traffic management under instruction in accordance with method statements with guidance from Site Supervisor
  • Participating in an out of hours emergency call out system covering the Peterborough Highway Services network
Essential Skills & Experience:
  • A clean UK driving license
  • Highways work experience
  • Willingness to work outside of normal hours and weekends as required (paid as overtime) in all weathers
  • Good customer care skills (i.e. dealing with the public)
  • Demonstration of capability to gain HGV Class C licence during probationary period - emergency standby and winter maintenance are a contractual part of the service we deliver
  • LGV/HGV Class C - Required
  • NRSWA
  • CSCS
  • Skilled and knowledgeable in Patching, kerbing. ironworks, drainage and all other aspects of Highway maintenance works
Additional Information
  • You must possess a high degree of manual dexterity demonstrated through the use of hand tools.
  • You will be required to work outdoors in all weathers and be required to walk and stand on uneven ground.
  • You must also be able to work within a confined space, without restriction.

At Milestone we embrace diversity, opening a rich potential for new ways of thinking and helping us to build successful and winning teams. We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process; and as a Disability Confident employer, if you require any adjustments that would assist you throughout your application, please contact us at (email protected) or inform the recruitment manager in the first instance and we will be pleased to offer support.
This is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Milestone. The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the Business.

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