Highways Maintenance Operative

2 weeks ago

Aylesford, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

We’re looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation Team. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive salary and annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands. We also offer 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference to the high-speed road network by connecting people.

**Location**:Coldharbour Depot, Aylesford

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent

**Basic Salary**: £23k - £28k dependent on experience and qualifications (weekly paid) + benefits package. With the potential to significantly increase your take-home package with standby, call-out, and overtime.

**Responsibilities**

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you’ll be working as part of a team to carry out highway’s maintenance duties as well as winter maintenance, and emergency response when required.

Your duties will include:

- Part of the response team, promptly dealing with incidents on the highways network.
- Carry out a wide variety of maintenance activities including Gully Cleansing, Winter Maintenance salt spreading, Traffic Management, Grass cutting, fencing, and other activities to keep the highway network operational.
- Work closely with team members to actively promote Health and Safety in the workplace, setting a good example to other employees and ensuring awareness of Health and Safety compliance
- You will be required to work nights and days and required to participate in out of hours rotas for emergency response. - basic salary is based on working 40 contracted hours on days, overtime will be paid for additional hours. An uplift will be paid for working nights and weekends. Standby Payments will be paid for Emergency callout and winter maintenance standbys.

**Who are we looking for?**

We need you to have a **fully valid driving license**. This is essential, so that you can drive our vehicles to the site, carrying the tools and equipment required.

The only other skills we require you to have include:

- A can-do attitude
- Willingness to work outdoors in all weather conditions
- Capability to work under pressure, ensuring we deliver a safe and reliable service for our customers and clients, keeping the roads maintained and traffic flowing.

Previous experience is advantageous but not essential. We can provide you with the training required to be fully competent along with, if desired a career pathway to progress via our perform program.

**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:

- New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leaves, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- A fantastic, matched pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing resources
- Kier’s Green Car Scheme

**Who is Kier?**

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that 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: 6 August 2023

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