Highways Maintenance Operative

6 months ago


Cheshire, United Kingdom COLAS ROAD UK Full time

Colas Ltd are a UK subsidiary of the global Colas Group, which operates in over 50 countries worldwide and employs over 55,000 people including over 1500 in the UK across multiple sites. We are specialists in highways construction and have been involved in large-scale UK and international construction projects within the highways, airfields, and marine sectors as well as offering highways maintenance services and manufacturing our own innovative surfacing products. We hold a 'Gold Investor in People' award for continuously developing and rewarding our employees, offering excellent career potential.

Purpose of the role

Colas are responsible for the eight-year Maintenance & Response contract for Chester West & Cheshire. The contract covers local Road Network within Chester and Cheshire West, as well. Colas Ltd. deliver cyclical maintenance, reactive maintenance, incident response, severe weather response and minor works.

We have some great opportunities for Highways Maintenance Operatives with HGV Class 2 driving licences to join the contract and to be based at the Winsford depot in Cheshire (CH3 7EX). As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you’ll be working as part of a team to carry out highway’s maintenance duties as well as winter maintenance, and emergency response when required. Activities will vary across Patching, Traffic Management to carrying out maintenance activities such as Gully Emptying, Soft Estate, Street Furniture Repair, Winter Maintenance etc.

Main Responsibilities

As a Highways Maintenance Operative you will be involved in various Highways Maintenance activities from Gully Emptying, Winter Maintenance, Sweeping & Cleaning Activities, Soft Estate Clearance, Traffic Management, and others as required to effectively maintain the Highway Infrastructure. In this role, you will be working very closely with your team members to promote effective Health & Safety within the workplace. Ensuring defined safe systems of work and risk assessments are adhered to. You will be required to actively participate in incident management and winter service. You will effectively use Colas plant and fleet and ensure all vehicles are checked safe before taking out in accordance with company policy. Working within Colas’ processes to effectively manage administrative tasks such as timesheet collation, capturing plant, labour & material use etc. Undertake all other appropriate duties as assigned by your line manager or Ganger as required by the business and ensuring the satisfactory completion of works in accordance with Colas Health & Safety practices. With this, you will maintain professional approach positively reflecting the image of the company. You will be expected to work both nights and days, participate in out of hours rotas for winter maintenance and emergency response, including stand-by (mandatory).

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidates will have a HGV Class 2 Licence, this is essential for the role as Winter maintenance will be a huge part of this role as well as a full UK driving licence. Experience of Highways Maintenance and/or any relevant Highways qualifications are desirable, not essential. (NRSWA, TM, Gully Emptying, Soft Estate etc.).

Colas Ltd are looking for Highways Maintenance Operatives who have a can-do attitude and willing to work with initiative. You will have good communication skills and capable of working in high pressure environments and in all weather conditions.

Package Description

Here at Colas, we offer a great total compensation package, including:

A salary between £11.44 and £13.75 (dependent on licences and experience) Our Colas Pension Scheme has combined contributions of up to 10% Life Assurance Scheme which is x4 basic salary 21 days annual leave per year + Public Holidays Holiday Purchase & Selling Scheme Hybrid Working Scheme (dependent on the role) Opportunities to study towards a fully funded Professional Qualification Ongoing personal / professional development Discounts on car leasing, holidays, cinema tickets, restaurants and much more through our online employee benefits 

As a business, we hold three core values Caring, Sharing and Daring. We are committed to Caring for our colleagues, promoting, equality and diversity, and maintaining a culture of fairness, transparency, and respect for all employees, clients, communities, suppliers, contractors, and other stakeholders. We harness a productive environment where talents are being fully utilised and organisational goals are met, Sharing our knowledge and expertise with colleagues to progress and expand on new ideas, promoting trust, responsibility, and solidarity. Our culture is built on an innovative and pioneering mindset, Daring to welcome new ideas and approaches. We are driven to invest in our employees and encourage them to participate in innovation, moving forward and striving to provide sustainable infrastructure solutions. 



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