Highways Maintenance Operative

Amey Lg Ltd; Kettering; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A major highway services provider seeks a permanent Highways Maintenance Operative for their Kettering, UK location. The role includes maintaining highways, operating vehicles, and ensuring health and safety standards. Successful candidates will have a full driving licence and experience working outdoors in various conditions. The position offers 45 hours of work weekly with flexible benefits including a career development plan and pension contributions.

Benefits

Career Development

Generous Pension scheme

Flexible benefits scheme

Online voucher portal for discounts

2 Community Involvement Days annually

Qualifications

• Experienced in various highway maintenance tasks, including patching and drainage maintenance.
• Must hold a full driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of workmanship.
• Drive/operate vehicles/plant requiring general and specialist skills.
• Ensuring safety compliance in all tasks.

Skills

Full driving licence

Experience working outdoors in challenging weather conditions

High standards of workmanship

Safety compliance

Job description

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Overview

We have fantastic opportunities for a permanent Highways Maintenance Operatives to join our Area 7 account in Kettering. This role is based on-site at Pytchley (NN156XS)

Working with National Highways, Amey maintains over 700 kilometres of roads across the East Midlands, ensuring the 4.5 million citizens across the East Midlands experience better journeys every day.

We provide maintenance and response across a vast area of some of the UK's busiest motorways and strategic highways across the east midlands and north of England. As many as 180,000 vehicles a day use certain sections of this vital network.

The standard hours of work are 45 hours per week (Monday - Friday, rotating day and night shifts) 7am - 3pm, 7pm - 5am

Responsibilities

• Maintaining high standards of workmanship
• Attending project and safety briefings as required
• Driving/operating vehicles/plant requiring general and specialist skills including vehicle checks, routine maintenance (e.g. oil and water checks) and cleaning
• Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others within your team to ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public.
• Keeping records and completing all necessary paperwork.
• Assessment, deployment and removal of suitable pedestrian and traffic management
• Litter picking and reactive works
• Safety fence repairs, patching, sign installs repairs, winter maintenance and incident response

Qualifications

• Full driving licence
• Experienced working outdoors in challenging weather conditions
• Perform various highway maintenance tasks, including carriageway and footway patching, kerbing, ironwork replacement, and drainage maintenance.

What we offer you

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
• Pension - Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership.
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers.
• Social Value - You'll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Please contact our recruitment team at [e-mail] to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!