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FM Conway Job Opportunity
About the Role
FM Conway are currently seeking a Skilled Operative to join our Strategic Networks team within our Structures Division. As our Skilled Operative, you will be responsible for carrying out a range of construction activities, ensuring all works are delivered with care, attention to safety, and in line with RAMS and company procedures. Working as part of a site team, you will also help to maintain good housekeeping, minimise waste, and ensure that all plant and equipment is used safely and correctly. This is a full-time permanent position based from our head office in Sevenoaks, Kent, working on our South London contracts.
Key Responsibilities
- Carrying out all works with care and with attention to safety, using the appropriate tools, safeguards, and PPE
- Reporting any incidents, accidents, or points of concern to your line manager or the Site Management without delay
- Ensuring that all materials are used correctly, and that waste is minimised by good housekeeping employing the briefed work methodology
- Ensuring that company and externally hired plant is in working order before use and to ensure that it is used correctly by competently trained individuals
Skills and Experience Required
As a Skilled Operative, you will have a strong understanding and ability to support with various skills such as setting up sites, pavement construction, kerbing, concreting, drainage, hard landscaping. You will also have a Level 2 NVQ qualification and competence in at least one construction trade and ideally have previous experience in highways construction. Understanding of health and safety as well as industry disciplines is essential as well as holding a CSCS card, medium/high risk confined space ticket and a full UK driving licence.
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Benefits
As our Skilled Operative, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:
- Career and professional development
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Life assurance
- Company pension
- Opportunities for internal and external training
- Access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform
- Health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders
About FM Conway and Our Structures Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
FM Conway works across the full spectrum of London and the South East’s highways structures and broader infrastructure needs. We have a strong track record of delivering refurbishments and improvements, heritage maintenance and structural repairs. We have worked on a range of iconic and impressive projects including Hammersmith Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Rochester Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Greenford Flyover, the Marble Arch Still Water Illumination project. FM Conway provides our clients and stakeholders with a full range of structural engineering services, utilising innovative and sustainable solutions to maximise value and ensure the successful delivery of projects to the highest quality design.
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Important Dates
- Closing Date: 21/08/2026
Equal Opportunities Employer
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life.
At our heart, we are a business that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
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