Road Worker X2

Reference:
23-27045

Job title:
Road Worker x2

Directorate:
Highways, Engineering and YGC

Service:
Highway Works

Closing date:
05/04/2024 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent

Salary:
£26,421 - £28,770 a year

Pay Scale:
S1

Location(s):
Cibyn Depot, Caernarfon

**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.

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

Tel: 01286 679076

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, 05/04/2024**

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**PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS**

ESSENTIAL

Be an effective communicator.
Ability to work as part of a team or individually.
Flexibility, dedication, and self-discipline.
Willingness to participate in the out-of-hours on call rota and winter maintenance activities as needed.

DESIRABLE

**RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING**

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

NRSWA - Operative.
CSCS - Operative.
NHSS - 12 AB.
NHSS - 12A (TMF).
NHSS - 12B (LTMO).
NHSS - 12D.
Health and Safety Qualification.
- or a willingness and commitment to train for this role as required.

**RELEVANT EXPERIENCE**

ESSENTIAL

Minimum of 3 years' experience in Civil Engineering or Highway Maintenance work.
Understanding of the requirements of the Health and Safety Act.

DESIRABLE

Experience of undertaking winter maintenance activities.
- or a willingness and commitment to train for this role as required.

**SPECIALIST SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE**

ESSENTIAL

Full, current, clean driving licence.
Be aware of the Health and Safety Act including Risk Assessment.

DESIRABLE

Ability to interpret and respond to problems.
Information technology skills.
Full class 2, current, clean driving licence.
- or a willingness and commitment to train for this role as required.

**LINGUISTIC NEEDS**

ESSENTIAL
Listen and Talk - Entry Level Can pronounce place names and people correctly. Ability to follow instructions and understand the run of a simple conversation through the medium of English and Welsh on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for information.

Writing - Entry Level Writing a simple note asking for or providing information about familiar everyday workplace issues.

**Purpose of the post**:

- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the centre of everything we do.
- Carry out skilful activities including setting out work, driving and operating heavy equipment, maintaining highway works.
- Take part in the out of hours on-call system as required.
- Working overtime outside working hours.

**Responsibility for functions**:

- Responsibility for the vehicles, equipment, machinery, and goods.
- Use WDM EZYTREEV computer tablet, Structures, NMWTRA Trimbull (Gully Emptying)
- Provide guidance to sub-contractors, JCB drivers, lorries, and planer etc

**Main duties**:
Responsibilities include the need to work to detailed levels and as required with construction work in many tasks, for example:
- Drainage
- Maintain a footway e.g., kerbing, slabbing.
- Ironwork e.g., gully and manholes
- Concrete work
- Walling
- Sector Scheme 2A/2B Security Fencing
- Drilling work
- Tarmac work including patchwork.
- Sector Scheme Number 13 dressing
- Sector Scheme Number 7 road marks.

Other Duties including:
- Traffic control and work on Sector Scheme 12A/B/C/D high speed roads
- Move, replace, and compress soil, stones, and other materials.
- Cut trees including using MEWP and a woodchipper.
- Plant and maintain highway environs in general.
- Maintain ditches.
- Put up permanent and temporary signs.⁠
- Respond to severe weather, floods, and overflows etc.
- Manholes.
- Winter maintenance work, including gritting, dealing with floods, clearing trees, City and Guilds Winter maintenance.
- Jetting and gully emptying.
- Keep a record of daily work and the goods, machinery etc. used.
- Weedkilling
- Working from a height

Drive / use heavy machinery for example:
- Vehicles under and over 3.5T.
- Gritting machinery.
- Snow ploughs.
- Hotbox
- Sweeping Vehicle
- Gully emptying machine.
- Telehandler
- Dressing machinery - tanker, chipper, and roller.
- Skid Steer machine including "Mini Planer, bucket and a brush”.
- 360 digger, tractor, and dumper
- MEWP

When using the vehicles and machinery, there will be a need to:
- ⁠Drive vehicles in a safe and courteous manner in accordance with the road's speed restrictions and within the requirements of the law
- Comply with the Fleet Department's Policy, that includes conducting appropriate inspections on the vehicles/machinery to ensure that they are safe to be on the road. Record every diversion and report any defects immediately. ⁠
- Attend relevant training for CPC, vehicles / machinery.

Using handheld tools for exa