Highways Operative

**Highways Operative**

**Location: Nantwich, CW5 6BJ**

**Full Time: 40 hours per week**

We are working alongside a market leader in the highways industry to recruit a Highways Operative.

The main purpose of the role is to assist, generally as part of a team, in delivering highway maintenance and construction works.

Essex Highways is responsible for managing and maintaining one of the largest highway networks in the country: 5,000 miles of roads and around 5,000 miles of footways. Essex Highways is a delivery partnership between Essex County Council and our contractual partner.

**The Role**
- Work as part of the highway maintenance operational team.
- Carry out a variety of skilled tasks including carriageway, footway, drainage maintenance, soft estate maintenance works (e.g. grass cutting, strimming etc) and minor civils works.
- Ensure that all works are completed safely.
- Receive daily briefings and understand risks and control measures required for the task.
- Complete daily record sheets and associated documents
- Ensure that works are completed to the required standard and within required timescales
- Report safety concerns
- Ensure waste is dealt with in the appropriate manner
- Participate in out-of-hours winter maintenance and emergency response activities on a rota basis.

**About You**
- Highway’s maintenance experience.
- A current, valid driving licence is essential.
- Able to carry out basic safety, quality and environmental audits and risk assessments.
- Able to take responsibility for traffic management, 12 A/B Traffic Management.
- Demonstrable awareness of environmental aspects and impacts and waste management.
- Understands and behaves safely, encourages others to behave safely and helps develop new safety processes.
- Ability to deal effectively with peers, client representatives and the general public.
- Demands and delivers high standards, has a passion for customer service that challenges poor service delivery.
- Take personal responsibility for work produced, makes decisions and provides detailed solutions when escalating decisions upwards.
- Able to give clear instruction, provide mentoring for apprentices and trainees as required.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with customers both internally and externally.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 129402