Balfour Beatty plc
Highways Maintenance Operative
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our UKCS Scotland team, working on our M77 contract.
In this role, you’ll help maintain roads across East Renfrewshire, East Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire. You’ll support the safe and reliable operation of the local road network by carrying out planned maintenance, winter operations, and emergency response activities.
The role involves participating in a shift system, winter standby rota, and rostered emergency response arrangements. Flexibility to work overtime and varied shift patterns will therefore be required to meet the needs of the contract.
What you'll be doing
Responsibilities
As a Highways Maintenance Operative, Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Delivering winter maintenance operations, including participation in the shift system and winter standby rota
- Setting up and managing traffic management arrangements
- Participating in emergency response activities on a rostered basis
- Carrying out civil maintenance works, including carriageway patching and drainage and fencing repairs
- Completing cyclical maintenance activities, such as sign cleaning, gully cleaning, and grass cutting
- Working safely and following relevant health and safety procedures and standards
- Taking pride in the quality of your work and supporting the wider team in maintaining the road network
Requirements
You Will Need
- A valid driving licence
- A Class 1 or Class 2 LGV licence
- A safety-first approach to everything you do
- Pride in delivering work to a high standard
- An honest and dependable approach, with the ability to act with integrity
- Flexibility to work overtime, shifts, and standby arrangements in line with operational requirements
Previous Experience In Highways Maintenance, Groundworks, Or Construction Would Be Beneficial. It Would Also Be Advantageous If You Hold, Or Are Working Towards, Any Of The Following
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- Driver CPC qualification
- NHSS 12AB traffic management accreditation or experience
- Winter maintenance experience
- NRSWA training
- CSCS Highway Maintenance certification
- NVQ in Winter Service
- CPCS Telescopic Telehandler certification
- First Aid qualification
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.
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
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge, and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus, and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
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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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