Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative

2 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

We’re looking for a Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative to join our Drainage Team. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive salary and annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a huge range of deals, and discounts at many of your favourite brands. We also offer 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference to the road network by connecting people.

**Location**:Thimble Mill Lane, Birmingham

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,672 - £30k plus benefits package

**Responsibilities**

As a Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative, you will provide all types of gully cleaning, cyclic and reactive, attending to flooding and including high-pressure jetting, and carrying out customer complaints. Iron work, drainage repairs working with various teams to solve problems and investigation.

Your duties will include:

- To drive or operate vehicles and plant requiring specialist skills, including undertaking daily vehicle checks, routine maintenance (e.g. oil, water, wiper fluid), and cleaning; and to ensure defect reports are completed and submitted.
- Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others within your team to ensure compliance with the relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public.
- To keep records, complete all necessary paperwork, communicate, and liaise with other employees of Kier, sub-contractors, the emergency services, the police, the general public, clients, and customers.

**Who are we looking for?**

This role of a Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative is great if you have the following:

- Full UK driving licence, an HGV licence is required to drive the gully vac and is preferred.
- CPC required to drive vehicles (this can be obtained with Kier)
- Experience in drainage work preferred
- Ability to work in all weathers

**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 leaves, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- A fantastic, matched pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing resources
- Keir’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: 12 July 2023



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