Highways Maintenance Operative

Description:

We're looking for Highways Maintenance Operative (carriageway & footway reinstatement) to join our Transportation team based in Birmingham. 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: Birmingham (B7 5HR)

Contract: Permanent, Full time

Salary: £27,976 to £33,000 depending on experience + call out + over time + standby

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 reactive and planned highways maintenance works such as pothole repairs, kerb laying, minor civils works / improvement works and support severe weather operations.

Your day to day will include:

· Carrying out routine maintenance and repairs on the network, operating a variety of plant and equipment, carrying out required duties effectively, ensuring site and company equipment is always secure, raising problems/queries with designated supervisor Completing daily record sheets as required

· Using WMS / MMW application at incidents and emergency repairs on the network and where required completing any required record sheets, providing accurate records of works on the network

· Conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and maintaining vehicles in a good order

 

What are we looking for?

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

· You are Street Works qualified – unit 1-9

· Drive and hold a full driving licence

· Can work on your own initiative and as part of a team

 

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 .

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 . 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