Maintenance Operative

**About the role**
At **Balfour Beatty Highways**, we are committed to maintaining, managing, and operating major highway networks across the UK, supporting local authorities in creating vibrant communities where people want to live, work, and play.

We pride ourselves on delivering **high-quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services** to both public and private sector clients. Our team provides **specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice** for asset management planning and implementation. With a focus on putting customers first, we consistently prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.

**Exciting Opportunity: Maintenance Operative (Leatherhead)**

Our **Balfour Beatty Highways** business has an exciting opening for a **Maintenance Operative** as part of the **Connect Plus Services (CPS)** team, based in Leatherhead.

As a Maintenance Operative, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the efficient service delivery of the **M25 DBFO Network**. From hazard clearance to network maintenance, your work will be instrumental in keeping one of the UK’s busiest highways running smoothly.
**What you'll be doing**
- Undertake activities, as instructed, with capabilities to ensure that your area of
responsibility is maintained. This will include but not exclusive to:

- cyclical maintenance
- graffiti removal
- carriageway repairs,
- soft estate maintenance (e.g. grassland maintenance)
- litter picking,
- sign maintenance,
- cleansing
- safety fence repairs
- boundary fence repairs
- Any other duties allocated by Line Managers.
- Implement Traffic Management in line with CPS policies, method statements, risk assessments and industry standards.
- Good written and verbal communication.
- Undertake routine vehicle checks and maintain accurate and up to date driving records in line with legislation in accordance with CPS procedures and legislation.
- Taking due care of any CPS property including but not limited to tablets, vehicles and radios.
- Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed.
- Responsible for checking your equipment & tools for relevant tasks. Reporting faults or defects.
- Participate in Winter Service rota as required.
- Attend training courses as required & maintain qualifications / competencies.
- Live the CPS Values.
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
- Support the delivery of CPSUK’s Sustainability activities.

**Who we're looking for**
Qualifications (Essential)
- UK Driving Licence
- CSCS Operative Card

Qualifications (Desirable / Achievable within 6months)
- Strimmer / Hedge Trimmer
- Banksman / Manual Handling
- NHSS12A/B 1 Day qualification - TTMBC
- ROLO Sector Scheme 18
- Emergency First Aid - 1 day
- Plant/small tools training.
- Gate Person
- PPI.

Working arrangements Maintenance (shift work, need for travel etc)
- Expected to work Mon-Fri, day and night shifts on a rotating basis with 3 weeks of night shifts to 1 week of day shifts
- Day shifts are 07:00 to 16:00, night shifts are 20:30 to 05:30 with a 45-minute break
- Reasonable level of travel around M25 network and between depots
- Travel to meetings, training and works sites outside normal operational area
- Expected to participate in out of hours call out rotas e.g. Winter Maintenance

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK12228