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Highways Maintenance Operative

1 month ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

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 excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

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 Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

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