Highways Maintenance Operative

**Highway Maintenance Operative**

**Team Network**

Reporting to Area 14 Operations Manager

**Location**

Depot based

To carry out all aspects of Highway Maintenance and to assist members of the public and CHC personnel when required.

**Main Description**
- Driving a range of vehicles as part of maintenance duties, often for long periods of driving.
- To conduct various maintenance works on extremely busy motorway and trunk roads
- To communicate with and assist members of the public and colleagues when required.
- To carry out a wide range of works such as minor surfacing and post and sign replacements.
- Small drainage repairs, safety fence repairs, kerb and flag laying
- Grass cutting, gully dipping and routine tidying of depots.
- Be prepared to carry out a small element of traffic management.
- To observe and promote all aspects of health and safety.
- To carry out the watchman role function by communicating back any issues that may arise on the network.
- Any other tasks commensurate with the role.

**Additional duties that may be required as part of the role**
- Assist with Winter Maintenance gritting, as required during the Winter Maintenance period.
- To assist with MRT duties as and when required.
- To install and maintain Traffic Management

**Person Specification**

**Essential**
- Educated to GCSE level (Maths & English grade C or above desirable)
- Team player
- Working night time and weekends and unsociable hours when on call for incidents
- Good communication skills for interface with members of the public and other stakeholders
- High speed road network

**Desirable**
- Class 2 HGV Licence
- CSCS
- Winter Maintenance
- First Aid at Work
- NRSWA
- Experience of Highways maintenance activities e.g. grass cutting/ gritting.

**About Costain**

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

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**Right to Work & Security Checks**

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

**Closing date**

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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