Balfour Beatty plc
highways maintenance operative
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About The Role
Job Title: Highways Maintenance Operative
Location: Warwickshire - Budbrooke
Company: Balfour Beatty
About The Role
Balfour Beatty Living Places is looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Warwickshire team. This is a hands-on role delivering a wide range of highway construction and maintenance activities that help keep local infrastructure safe, operational and maintained to the highest standards.
Working across the Warwickshire and Solihull contract, you will undertake essential maintenance and repair works, support emergency and winter service operations, and contribute to the delivery of a safe and efficient highway network.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out highway maintenance and construction activities safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
- Complete pothole repairs, footway reconstruction, drainage works, kerbing, block paving, concreting and related civil engineering tasks.
- Install and maintain street furniture, fencing, ironworks and traffic management systems.
- Ensure work is completed in accordance with health, safety and quality requirements.
- Use plant, equipment and machinery appropriately and safely.
- Manage materials effectively and support efficient site operations.
- Assist with emergency response and winter maintenance activities when required.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues, supervisors, subcontractors and clients.
- Promote a positive culture of safety, professionalism and customer service.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and contribute to the successful delivery of operational targets.
Who we're looking for
Essential Experience
- Highway construction and maintenance works.
- Footway construction and carriageway repairs.
- Drainage, kerbing, slabbing and block paving.
- Traffic management activities.
- Safe use of plant and equipment.
- Driving and working within operational environments.
- Manual handling and site-based construction activities.
Essential Qualities
- Strong commitment to health and safety.
- Reliable and adaptable approach to work.
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
- Professional and customer-focused mindset.
- Pride in delivering high-quality work.
- Honest, dependable and committed to continuous improvement.
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Desirable Qualifications
- NRSWA accreditation.
- 12D Traffic Management T1/T2.
- CSCS Highway Maintenance card.
- First Aid qualification.
- CPCS or NPORS plant certifications.
- Class 1 or Class 2 Licence.
- Driver CPC.
- Winter Maintenance CSCS.
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…
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
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For further information about Balfour Beatty Jobs please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
About Us
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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