Highways Maintenance Operative

1 month ago


Thatcham, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time
Highway Maintenance Operative

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation Team. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive salary and annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands. We also offer 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference to the high-speed road network by connecting people.

Location: Chieveley Depot, Berkshire

Contract: Full Time, Permanent 

Salary: £12 to £14.60 per hour dependent on experience and qualifications (weekly paid)

 

Responsibilities

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.

What will your day to day in the role look like?

Your day to day will include:

  • Part of the response team, promptly dealing with incidents on the highways network.
  • Carry out a wide variety of maintenance activities including Gully Cleansing, Winter Maintenance salt spreading, Traffic Management, Grass cutting, fencing, and other activities to keep the highway network operational. 
  • Work closely with team members to actively promote Health and Safety in the workplace, setting a good example to other employees and ensuring awareness of Health and Safety compliance
  • You will be required to work nights and days and required to participate in out of hours rotas for emergency response. – basic salary is based on working 40 contracted hours on days, overtime will be paid for additional hours. An uplift will be paid for working nights and weekends. Standby Payments will be paid for Emergency callout and winter maintenance standbys.

What are we looking for?

We need you to have a fully valid driving license. This is essential so that you can drive our vehicles to the site, carrying the tools and equipment required.

  • Ability to work using own initiative and as a part of the team
  • Willingness to work outdoors in all weather conditions
  • Capability to work under pressure, ensuring we deliver a safe and reliable service for our customers and clients, keeping the roads maintained and traffic flowing.

 

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

 

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

 

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

 



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