Gully Operative

Join our team in North Tyneside and you will work as part of a two-person team maintaining drainage systems across the district. You will work on a variety of drainage related issues including emergencies like blockages and cleaning pipes during maintenance programmes.

**Job title**:
Gully Operative - Highways & Drainage

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Receive and carry out instructions from Safety Defects Manager, ensuring works are completed to given timescales, are of high quality to enhance service resilience against flooding and that residents are reassured through a positive experience.
- You will work on a variety of drainage related issues including emergencies like blockages and cleaning pipes during maintenance programmes
- As well as Highways work, occasional work on sites of major schemes, supporting and mapping state of existing piping.
- Able to manage a variety of risks, hazards and identify changing site and environmental conditions.
- Ensure that excellent customer care is implemented to residents and service partners, must have excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively as working as part of a two-person team or on own as required.

**What we are looking for**:

- Experience of working on or near the highway. (Desirable)
- To understand and be responsible for their own safety and that of others, including pedestrians and contractors.
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and customers.
- Able to work outdoors in all weather extremes
- Able to take responsibility for plant, equipment, and vehicle defect inspections
- Full, clean driving licence.

**About Government Services**

For more than 30 years Capita has been working across the public and private sectors, solving the complex challenges of our clients, increasing productivity, enhancing their use of technology and data, improving customer and public services and adding value to the UK and local economies.

Capita is committed to the local government sector and is the market leader in the delivery of Planning Resilience Services to Local Authority clients. We have worked with over 100 Local Authority clients nationwide, and have an outstanding track record of providing Development Management & Planning Policy and Consultancy services.

**What’s in it for you?**
- A competitive basic salary **(£20,295)**:

- 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice.
- Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more.
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
- Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.
- You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita.

You’ll be joining a network of 55,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

**What we hope you’ll do next**:
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**Equal Opportunities**

**Location**:
Newcastle Upon Tyne
,

United Kingdom

**Time Type**:
Full time

**Contract Type**:
Permanent