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About The Role
Balfour Beatty has an opportunity for a General Operative to join our UKCS Living Places business in East Sussex.
In this role, you will support the delivery of highways maintenance activities across the local network, helping to keep communities moving safely and efficiently. You will carry out a broad range of operational tasks to a high standard, working safely, responsibly, and at a commercial pace.
This is a hands-on role suited to someone with highways maintenance experience who takes pride in delivering work right first time, every time.
What you'll be doing
As a General Operative, Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Carrying out a broad range of highways maintenance activities safely, efficiently, and to a high standard
- Installing and maintaining items such as street lighting, signposts, bollards, and associated highway assets
- Undertaking excavation, backfilling, and other general highways maintenance tasks
- Completing work instructions issued via handheld devices
- Working within health, safety, and environmental requirements at all times
- Stopping work where it is unsafe to start or continue
- Reporting observations, both good and bad, to support continuous improvement
- Participating in out-of-hours and on-call rota arrangements where required
- Supporting winter maintenance activities as part of a rota system
- Attending training when requested
- Acting as an ambassador for Balfour Beatty and representing the business professionally
Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone with good experience in highways maintenance who is confident working in a safety-critical, operational environment.
The Successful Candidate Will Ideally Have
- Experience carrying out highways maintenance activities
- NRSWA qualification
- First Aid at Work
- A full clean driving licence
- Safe Digging qualification, including CAT and Genny
- Relevant plant tickets, where appropriate
- Chapter 8 training
- Plant awareness
- Abrasive Wheels training
- Manual Handling training
- Basic computer skills and confidence using handheld devices
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You will be safety-focused, reliable, and willing to work as part of a team. You will take responsibility for the quality of your work, follow instructions carefully, and ask for support when needed.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- 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 Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work, and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture, we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long-term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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