Highways Maintenance Operative

Highways 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

Hours: Permanent, Full-time, Monday to Friday, with out of hours callout.

Salary: £12.60 to £15.34 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:

• Carrying out highways maintenance tasks, including winter maintenance and responding to network incidents.
• Operating plant and equipment to complete duties safely and effectively.
• Promoting Health & Safety in the workplace and ensuring compliance with all procedures.
• Liaising with team members and stakeholders to provide excellent customer care.
• Maintaining vehicles and ensuring equipment is secure and fit for purpose.

What are we looking for?

This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if:

• You hold a valid full UK driving licence.
• You are 12ab Lantra traffic management trained, with a basic Lantra VRS qualification.
• You have experience in Health & Safety operations and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Rewards and benefitsWe'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 inclusionMaking 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

Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Heath and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.