Balfour Beatty plc
Highways Operative - Pothole Pro Driver
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty Living Places is seeking a Highways Operative – Pothole Pro to join our Lincolnshire Highways Revenue Team. Based within our Lincolnshire contract, you will play a vital role in maintaining and improving the local highway network, helping to keep roads safe and serviceable for communities across the county.
Working as part of the reactive maintenance and patching teams, you will operate a Pothole Pro vehicle and undertake a range of highway maintenance activities, including emergency repairs, routine maintenance, winter service operations, and making sites safe. This is a hands-on role where safety, quality, and customer service are at the heart of everything you do.
You will be joining a team committed to delivering essential infrastructure services while maintaining the highest standards of health, safety, and operational excellence.
What you'll be doing
- Operating the Pothole Pro and carrying out carriageway patching and pothole repairs across the Lincolnshire highway network.
- Undertaking a wide range of highway maintenance activities, including routine, cyclical, and reactive works.
- Supporting emergency response activities, including out-of-hours call-outs when required.
- Assisting with winter maintenance and gritting operations.
- Completing temporary and permanent repairs to highway assets.
- Working safely and effectively in accordance with Balfour Beatty's Zero Harm principles and all relevant health and safety procedures.
- Using plant, equipment, and materials efficiently to deliver work to the required quality standards.
- Following work schedules and instructions issued through handheld devices and ensuring tasks are completed right first time.
- Working collaboratively with supervisors, operatives, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of maintenance activities.
- Acting as a professional ambassador for Balfour Beatty when interacting with customers, clients, and members of the public.
Who we're looking for
We are looking for motivated, reliable individuals who take pride in delivering high-quality work and have a strong commitment to health and safety.
You'll Ideally Demonstrate
- A positive attitude and strong work ethic.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Good communication skills and a customer-focused approach.
- Flexibility to work overtime and varied hours, including occasional twilight shifts.
- The ability to adapt to changing operational requirements.
- A willingness to learn, develop new skills, and share knowledge with colleagues.
- A professional and safety-conscious approach to work.
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Experience in one or more of the following areas would be beneficial:
- Highway maintenance and civils works.
- Pothole and carriageway patch repairs.
- Traffic management activities.
- Linear drainage, kerbing, ironworks, concreting, or paving.
- Plant and machinery operation.
- Winter maintenance and gritting operations.
- Driving and operating specialist highway maintenance equipment.
Desirable Qualifications Include
- Class 2 (Category C) Driving Licence.
- NRSWA accreditation.
- CSCS card.
- First Aid certification.
- Lantra qualifications.
- CPC and plant operation certifications.
- Relevant highway maintenance or winter service qualifications.
If you're looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to local infrastructure and want to be part of a team that puts safety, quality, and customer service first, we'd love to hear from you.
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…
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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.
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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