Highways Maintenance Operative

**About the role** Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities** creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

Our **Balfour Beatty Highways **business has a terrific opportunity for a **Highways Maintenance Operative **for our **Highways DBFO**.
**What you'll be doing**
As a **Highways Maintenance Operative, **you will be supporting the Operative Team managing all the costs related to the** DBFO contract.**

As a Highways Maintenance Operative [Level 1] you will be undertaking a 2 year work experience based training programme in Highway Maintenance; You’ll be following a 70:20:10 method of training:

- 70% on the job training
- 20% mentoring / coaching
- 10% formal training & qualifications
- Over the period of 2 years, you’ll learn all the aspects of how to work safely whilst maintaining the M1, A1(M), M621 and M621 for the travelling public, providing a key service to the Leeds area

**Compliance**:

- Work within a culture of Zero Harm embedding the 4 Golden Rules within all aspects of service delivery
- Reporting all observations Close Calls and Good Practices
- Compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, specifically H&S

**Technical / Operations**:

- How to carry out a broad range of Highway maintenance activities - safety, efficiently and to a high standard
- How to conduct operational activities against required quality standards
- Selecting and undertake appropriate work methods to ensure the work is completed right first time
- Utilising the effective deployment and use of plant, equipment or machinery
- Evaluating job information / solution and recommend improvements.

**Service Delivery**:

- Carry out all reasonable work instructions via the handheld device
- Support the emergency service provision in and out of hours
- Support the delivery of winter maintenance service

**Who we're looking for** The following is desired**:

- Driving licence (**essential**)
- Holds a valid CSCS Card (labourer, skilled trade of traffic management)
- LGV (Class 1 or 2 Licence)
- Traffic management qualifications
- NRSWA
- Abrasive Wheel
- Manual Handling
- Banksman
- NVQ Winter Service
- Telehandler (Forks and/or Bucket)
- MEWP Driver

**Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.**
- An attractive / negotiated salary
- 42 core base hours per week
- Pension savings schemes
- A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
- Refer a friend bonus scheme

**About us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- 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 Beattys Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK08935