Highways Operative
2 weeks ago
Job No. BBUK12381
Highways Operative - Traffic Management - Lincoln
Living Places
Operational Specialists
Lincoln
Permanent
About the role
- Balfour Beatty's projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Living Places team as a Highways Operative - Traffic Management and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
Role Purpose
You will be responsible for carrying out all aspects of Highways Maintenance works including routine and cyclical maintenance, minor civils, emergency attendance, making sites safe and temporary / permanent repairs.
What you'll be doing
- As a Highways Operative - Traffic Management, you will have the following accountabilities:
- Compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, specifically H & S
- 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.
Who we're looking for
- You will have the following:
- Health and Safety first
- Adaptable to changing situations
- Team work
- Reliable
- Willing to learn
- Listen to and do what is required
- Pride in work
- Honest / Act with integrity
- Customer facing
- Positive Attitude
- Professional Conduct
- Willing to share knowledge
- Quality and accuracy of work
- Continually striving to improve performance
- Good Communication skills
Desirable:
NRSWA
First Aid
Lantra T1
Lantra T2
- Carriageway pot hole / patch repairs
- Highway Civils
- Linear Drainage
- Iron works
- Concreting
- Driving
- Gritting roads
- Traffic Management
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.
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