Costain Group
Highways Maintenance Operative

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Highways Maintenance Operative
As a highways maintenance operative your role will be to carry out all aspects of highway maintenance across the Area 14 Network under the National Highways Maintenance & Response Contract. This covers the area from A1(M)/ A168 junction near Ripon in the south, the Berwick upon Tweed in the north and to Barnard Castle on the A66 and Haltwhistle on the A69 in the west, extending to the coast in the east.
You will be part of a team of 14 operatives and wider team of approx. 60 persons delivering these essential services to the road network across the North East.
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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