Highways Maintenance Operative

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based.

Within this role you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

**Location**: Marley Lane Depot, Battle

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23k - £28k dependent on experience and qualifications (weekly paid) plus benefits package. With the potential to significantly increase your take-home pay 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 day to day 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 also 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.

**What are we looking for?**

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

**Rewards and benefits**

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

**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 initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

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