Highways Maintenance Operative

Kier Group plc; Minehead; On-site; GBP 27,000 - GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading transportation service provider seeks a Highways Maintenance Operative to join their team in Minehead. In this full-time role, you'll support highway service delivery, responding to defects and utilizing technology to document work. Ideal candidates will hold a full driving license and demonstrate independent work ability as well as teamwork skills. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £27,976 to £30,000, along with benefits like a pension scheme and holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Competitive annual holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Drivers must hold a full driving license, LGV training provided.
• Ability to communicate faults or issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support efficient delivery of highway services across the Somerset network.
• Respond to highway defects quickly within designated timescales.
• Utilize tablet devices for record keeping and communication.
• Conduct daily vehicle defect reports and maintain good order.

Skills

Full driving license

Ability to work independently

Team communication

Job description

Overview

We\'re looking for Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Minehead. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Minehead, Somerset

Contract: Permanent, Full time

Salary: £27,976 to £30,000 depending on experience + call out + overtime

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you\'ll be working within the Operative team, supporting them with the efficient and timely delivery of highway service requirements across the Somerset network. Carrying out reactive works, emergency response, minor civils works / improvement works, involvement with winter maintenance activity will be necessary along with supporting severe weather operations where required.

Your day to day will include:

• Contributing to the promotions of customer care by working closely with team members, ensuring client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
• Responding to defects on the highway within designated timescales, ensuring relevant parties are updated through tablet devices (applications), including installation and removal of emergency traffic management signage
• Using tablet devices (applications) at incidents and emergency repairs on the network and where required completing any required record sheets, utilising the tablet devices in providing accurate records of works on the network
• Conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are cleaned and maintained in good order

What are we looking for?

This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if:

• Drive and hold a full driving licence (LGV training will be provided once you meet necessary business targets)
• Can work on your own initiative and as part of a team communicating faults or issues

We\'re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don\'t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We\'re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We\'re proud of the steps we\'ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier\'s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

Application materials

• Job Description - HMO - .docx