Skilled Roadworker

**How you'll make a difference**:
As a skilled roadworker you will deliver a high quality highways maintenance and construction service in order to meet the needs of our residents and keep our region safe. Based from our operating depot in Yate near Bristol, the highway maintenance team deliver civil engineering highway maintenance works across the whole network in the South Gloucestershire area.

**What will you be doing?**
- In the role you will prepare and carry out pothole and patch repairs on live carriageway, setting forms and laying precast concrete or natural stone kerbs, manhole construction, concreting, fencing, walling and slabbing.
- You will also undertake general digging, labouring, and loading work including general snow clearance work when required.
- It will your responsibility to ensure that safe methods of work are always taken in the operation of plant and equipment, that the required PPE is used and that vehicle and equipment checks are carried out.
- On a daily basis you will operate small mechanical plant machinery used in the maintenance of highways.
- Work environment is mainly outdoors and will include working in inclement weather conditions as well as exposure to heat and noise.
- You may be required to be available to be on-call at evenings and at weekends, on a rota basis, as workloads dictate.

**What we need from you**:

- You must be a New Roads and Street Works accredited operative and it is essential that you have a full UK driving licence.
- We require you to have a minimum of 3 years recent relevant experience of highway maintenance and construction related work, in a similar commercial or public sector highways construction or maintenance role.
- Experience and training in the use of small plant and machinery is required, such as abrasive wheel, dumpers, rollers, vibrating plate compactors, chainsaws and steel saws.
- Physical activity is a dominant feature of this post requiring physical strength and endurance and you will also work outdoors in all environments and weather conditions including severe winter weather.
- It would be desirable if you had an HGV 111 licence but this is not essential.

**How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different**:

- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that **work/life balance.**:

- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our **training and development** offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a realdifference to the lives of people who live, work, and learnhere.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

**We’re making a difference, be part of it