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Highways Maintenance Operative

Bridgwater
£27.9k – £29k/yr
Posted 4 months ago
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Company Name: Kier

We're looking for Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Bridgwater. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and even more. Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Bridgwater, Somerset
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Salary: £27,976 to £29,000 depending on experience + call out + overtime

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Operative team, supporting them with the efficient and timely delivery of highway service requirements across the Somerset network.

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  • Carrying out reactive works, emergency response, minor civils works / improvement works, involvement with winter maintenance activity will be necessary along with supporting severe weather operations where required.

Your day to day will include:

  • Contributing to the promotions of customer care by working closely with team members, ensuring client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
  • Responding to defects on the highway within designated timescales, ensuring relevant parties are updated through tablets devices (applications), including installation and removal of emergency traffic management signage
  • Using tablet devices (applications) at incidents and emergency repairs on the network and where required completing any required record sheets, utilising the tablet devices in providing accurate records of works on the network
  • Conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are cleaned and maintained in good order

What are we looking for?

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

  • Drive and hold a full driving licence (LGV training will be provided once you meet necessary business targets)
  • Can work on your own initiative and as part of a team communicating faults or issues

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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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

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Skills

Highways Maintenance
Emergency Response
Minor Civils Works
Winter Maintenance
Traffic Management
Customer Care
Vehicle Maintenance
Tablet Device Proficiency

Location

Bridgwater, England, United Kingdom

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