Highways General Operative

**About the role**
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for **Highway Maintenance Operatives** to join our Living Places business unit to work in**Lincolnshire.**

Role purpose:
Responsible for carrying out a broad range of tasks, including but not limited to kerb laying and footway improvements, drainage work, traffic signal chambers and ducting, culvert installations, shuttering, steel fixing and formwork, brickwork and concrete repairs, vegetation clearance, excavating holes and trenches, repairing safety fencing and timber post and rail fencing and working with vacuum excavators. - All to a high standard, safely and at a commercial pace.

**What you'll be doing**
As a Highway **Maintenance Operative**, your main responsibilities will be as follows:

- Working within a culture of Zero Harm - embedding the 4 Golden Rules within all aspects of service delivery;
- Report all observations - Close Calls and Good Practices;
- Compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, specifically H & S;
- Develop and maintain good working relationships across all teams;
- Carry out a broad range of Highway maintenance activities - safety, efficiently and to a high standard;
- Conduct operational activities against required quality standards;
- Undertake required work, progress against agreed programmes;
- Select and undertake appropriate work methods to ensure the work is completed right first time;
- Ensure that work activities meet project work requirements;
- Utilise the effective deployment and use of plant, equipment or machinery;
- Organise, control and monitor supplies of materials;
- Evaluate job information / solution and recommend improvements;
- Carry out all reasonable work instructions (Issued through various media including hand held device, hard copy job file and/or verbal instructions);
- Support the emergency service provision - in and out of hours;
- Flexibility of working overtime or shift patterns to meet business requirements;
- Support the delivery of winter service provision;
- Contribute to the overall profitability of the services provided through effective use of resources;
- Provide customer service in construction;
- Be an ambassador for Balfour Beatty at all times.

**Who we're looking for**
The following qualities and experience are essential:

- Driving licence
- Health and Safety first
- Takes pride in work
- Honest / Acts with integrity
- Flexibility of working overtime or shift patterns to meet business requirements

The following qualities and experience are desirable:

- EUSR Level 2, 3, 4, & 5 in excavation
- Confined Space Training
- Highway Maintenance, Groundworks or Construction experience
- Class 1 or Class 2 LGV Licence
- NRSWA Training
- CSCS Highway Maintenance
- Driver CPC
- NVQ Winter Service
- Telehandler training
- Vacuum excavation experience

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us**
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic ‘place shaping’ agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the ‘road’ to deliver the potential of the ‘street’: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

Job Reference: BBUK04006