Highways Maintenance Operative

Kier Group plc; Thatcham, Brixworth, Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading transportation company is seeking a Highways Maintenance Operative to join its team in Thatcham. The role involves carrying out maintenance duties, responding to network incidents, and ensuring customer care. Candidates must have a valid UK driving licence, experience in health and safety operations, and the ability to work nights. A competitive remuneration package and potential for overtime are offered, along with diverse benefits to suit individual needs.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Potential for overtime

Benefits tailored to needs

Qualifications

• Valid UK Driving Licence or LGV Cat C is essential.
• Experience and knowledge of strict health and safety operations.
• Ability to contribute towards night shifts and on-call duties.

Responsibilities

• Carry out highways maintenance duties including winter maintenance.
• Respond promptly to incidents on the network and liaise with control centre.
• Promote customer care by ensuring polite interactions with clients.

Skills

Ability to work using own initiative

Valid UK Driving Licence or LGV Cat C

Experience and knowledge of strict H&S operations

Ability to work night shifts

Job description

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Thatcham, Berkshire. Within this role, you can enjoy a very competitive remuneration package, plus potential for overtime and call out, plus further uplift for night work.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference to the high-speed road network by connecting people.

Location

Thatcham, Berkshire

Business Area

Transportation

Contract

Permanent, Full Time 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday - Evenings/Nights

Responsibilities

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Transportation Team, supporting them in ensuring the efficient running of the Area 3 network.

Your day to day will include:

• Carry out highways maintenance duties as instructed. Including winter maintenance when appropriate
• Respond promptly to incidents on the network as instructed and liaise with the Regional Network Hub Control Centre
• Contribute to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members to ensure client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
• Carry out daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are maintained in good order

What are we looking for?

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

• Ability to work using own initiative and as part of a team
• Valid UK Driving Licence or LGV Cat C
• Experience and knowledge of strict H&S operations and its practical implications
• Ability to work night shifts and contribute towards out of hours call out roster

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