Highways Operative

1 week ago


Peterborough, United Kingdom M Group Services Full time

**Highways Operative**

**Peterborough**

21 days' annual leave plus 8 days' bank holiday

Out of hours / Call Out (Overtime)

Pension scheme / Life Assurance /Personal Accident Insurance

Holiday purchase scheme / Referral scheme / Cycle to work scheme

Ongoing training & development including HGV / LGV Drivers license

Employee assistance programme / Family friendly leave policies

Employee rewards & discounts platform (includes major retailers & cinemas)

Milestone Infrastructure look after 24,000 miles of roads, 280,000 lighting assets and 20,000 miles of footways, always with a view to ensuring that all works are carried out as sustainably as possible and with mínimal impact to local communities.

Since 2013, Milestone Infrastructure have been delivering a Term Maintenance Contract (TMC) with Peterborough City Council(PCC) to carry out highways’ maintenance and improvement schemes on their network. The contract, which continues to 2028, includes the delivery of individual highway and structural projects of varying values

We are currently looking to recruit a Highways Operative to work on our Peterborough Highway Services contract.

As a Highways Operative you will be part of our Highways Maintenance Team who are responsible for Delivery of the Term Maintenance Highways contract for Peterborough Highway Services

**As the Highways Operative your duties & responsibilities will be**:

- Carry out work safely in accordance with design drawings and specification
- Take ownership of your own individual work, ensuring that materials and equipment are fit for purpose.
- Undertaking various labouring duties including excavation works, laying and levelling of kerbs, slabs and bitumen macadam, drainage and gully installations
- Participate in daily briefings, and completion of job pack documentation.
- Ensuring that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of own and other persons and to comply with all local and statutory Health & Safety procedures
- Operating small plant and equipment used in highway maintenance with guidance from Site Supervisor
- Installing traffic management under instruction in accordance with method statements with guidance from Site Supervisor
- Participating in an out of hours emergency call out system covering the Peterborough Highway Services network

**Essential Skills &Experience**
- A clean UK driving license
- Highways work experience
- Willingness to work outside of normal hours and weekends as required (paid as overtime) in all weathers
- Good customer care skills (i.e. dealing with the public)
- Demonstration of capability to gain HGV Class C licence during probationary period - emergency standby and winter maintenance are a contractual part of the service we deliver
- LGV/HGV Class C - training will be given
- NRSWA
- CSCS
- Skilled and knowledgeable in Patching, kerbing. ironworks, drainage and all other aspects of Highway maintenance works

**Additional Information**
- You must possess a high degree of manual dexterity demonstrated through the use of hand tools.
- You will be required to work outdoors in all weathers and be required to walk and stand on uneven ground.
- You must also be able to work within a confined space, without restriction.
- Must be able to work with and be part of a team, with good positive communication skills.


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