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 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**
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK04006