Irv Highways Maintenance Operative

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

We are now looking for an IRV Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Highways team in Birmingham to support in all aspects of incident response, including but not limited to, attendance at, making safe, repair of Category 1 defects, and assisting with highways emergencies as directed. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.

**Location**: Thimble Mill Lane, Birmingham

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent

**Salary**: Competitive plus benefits

**Responsibilities**

As IRV Highways Maintenance Operative, you will operate vehicles and plants requiring specialist skills, including undertaking daily vehicle checks, routine maintenance (e.g. oil, water, wiper fluid), and cleaning, whilst ensuring defect reports are completed and submitted. Be a point of contact for all aspects of highway maintenance works, including routine and cyclical maintenance activities and minor civils works.

The role may also require you to provide cover on nights, weekends, and bank holidays.

Your day-to-day will include:

- You will take responsibility for the safety of yourself and others within your team to ensure compliance with the relevant health & safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public
- Keep records, complete all necessary paperwork, communicate and liaise with other employees of Kier, sub-contractors, the emergency services, general public, clients and customers.
- Provide information to populate the risk register and update this information as the project develops

**Who are we looking for?**

This role of IRV Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if you have:

- Demonstrate good knowledge of Health and Safety especially relating to highways operations
- Hold relevant essential qualifications in traffic management, incident response, winter maintenance and highway maintenance operational tasks
- UK driving licence.
- Construction Skills Certification Scheme qualified at a skilled worker level or higher

**Benefits at Kier**

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

- New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- A fantastic matched pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing resources
- Kier’s Green Car Scheme

**Who is Kier?**

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

**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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

**Closing date: 22 June 2023



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