Road Worker

Job title:
Road Worker

Directorate:
Highways and Municipal

Service:
Highway Works

Closing date:
09/03/2023 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 37 Hour

Salary:
£22,369 - £24,054 a year

Pay Scale:
GS4

Location(s):
Afonwen Depot, Pwllheli

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this **Information Pack

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please contact Gareth Wyn Jones ar 01766 810655.

Interviews will be held - To be confirmed.

Application forms and further details available from, Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, THURSDAY, 09/03/2023.**

**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:
Good character.

Ability to work using own initiative also as part of a team.

**Desirable**:
**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
LGV Class I or 2

NRSWA (Streetworks) Qualification, Health and Safety Qualification,

12D Traffic Management

CSCS Cards

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
Minimum of 3 years experience in Civil Engineering or Highway Maintenance work

**Desirable**:
**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:
Clean driving licence

Health and Safety Awareness including risk assessment

**Desirable**:
Ability to set out work to line and level

Good IT Skills

**Language requirements**:
**Essential**:
**Listening and Speaking - Entry Level**:
Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly.Able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for information

**Reading and Understanding - Entry Level**:
**Writing - Entry Level**:
Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

**Purpose of the post**:

- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- Ensure an efficient, effective and economic highway maintenance service.

**Responsibility for functions**:

- Staff who are responsible for the duties noted. Any plant, machinery in conjunction with the duties noted.

**Main duties**:
Undertake tasks largely described as specialist work which will include the setting out of work and driving or operating heavy/complex plant and equipment requiring specialist skills.

Duties will include the need to work to precise levels and requirements in construction work in a number of tasks, for example:

- Drain laying; trench timbering; manhole construction; shuttering; steel fixing; scaffolding; reinforced concreting; kerb laying; fencing; walling; flag and block paving and sewers in tunnels, patching work, tree cutting, weed killing, strimming and traffic management.;
- There is also a requirement to direct work of lower graded operatives.

Other duties include:

- The erection and removal of appropriate signs and barriers
- Work on highway furniture and equipment including erection, fixing and/or dismantling;
- Planting and general maintenance of highways environs;
- Provide general support and assistance to skilled and specialist operatives

In addition to the requirement to drive or operate heavy/complex plant and equipment there is a requirement to drive vehicles and wheeled tractors with simple attachments and to operate powered hand tools; minor plant and machinery with the need for appropriate routine maintenance of all such vehicles and machinery such as oil/water checks and cleaning.

There is a duty to ensure the safe operation of plant and equipment at all times with particular responsibility for the safety of the workforce and public in relation to it.
- Responsibility for self-development.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
- Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
- Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
- Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

**Special circumstances**:

- There is a need to work outside working hours to respond to the requirements of t