Highways Maintenance Operative

2 weeks ago

Penrith, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

We’re looking for Highways Maintenance Operatives to join our Highways Team in Cumbria & North Lancashire, helping us to connect roads and connect people.

**Location**:Penrith, Cumbria and Garstang, Lancashire

**Contract**: 4 days on, 4 days off, 12hr day/night shifts, including weekends and bank holidays

**Salary**: £Competitive plus benefits package

**Responsibilities**

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you will work in close cooperation with team members on motorways & trunk roads across Cumbria & North Lancashire. You will operate a variety of vehicles and equipment to carry out required duties safely and effectively.

Your day-to-day duties will include:

- Install, maintain, and remove temporary traffic management when required.
- Undertake routine maintenance of the highway network
- Undertake severe weather duties - gritting and flood clearance as required.
- Undertake reactive repairs to damaged / defective highway assets.
- Liaise with National Highways at the scene of road traffic incidents and work with them to clear the scene as quickly as possible.

**Who are we looking for?**

This following qualifications are desirable but not essential. We provide extensive training to give our employees the necessary skills and progress their careers
- Lantra Traffic Management (12 A,B, D) trained.
- Lantra VRS qualifications
- Experience and Knowledge of strict H&S operations and its practical implication
- LGV driving licence group “C”.

**Benefits at Kier**

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

- A fantastic matched pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing resources
- Kier’s Green Car Scheme

**Who is Kier?**

Our projects and contracts support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

**Closing date: 20 July 2023

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