Community Steward

Kier Group plc.; Brixworth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and engineering firm is seeking a Community Steward to join their Highways team in Brixworth. This role involves responding to public emergencies, repairing minor defects, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure network safety. Candidates should have experience in highways maintenance, strong communication skills, and be IT literate. The job offers an opportunity to contribute significantly to public safety and transportation links.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in highways maintenance industry.
• Strong communication skills with public and stakeholders.
• Competence in using IT systems effectively.

Responsibilities

• Carry out inspections and raise works orders.
• Respond to emergency incidents on the network.
• Participate in emergency standby and call out duties.

Skills

Experience working in the highways maintenance industry

Confidence to provide front line support

IT literate

Ability to analyze information

Job description

We're looking for a Community Steward to join our Highways team based in Brixworth Depot, Northamptonshire. In this role you will collaborate with the Network Intelligence Centre and assess / respond to public enquiries deemed as an emergency or urgent. You will be representing West Northamptonshire Council and Kier and will be required to engage with customers and stakeholders. Due to the nature of this position a full driving licence is essential. As a Community Steward, you will be collaborating closely with the Operational Team and the Network Intelligence Centre. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure all emergency defects are made safe, repairing minor defects at the time of inspection where possible. At all times complying with Kier's Health, Safety, quality and environment requirements and standards Your day to day will include:

• Carry out inspections raised by the public enquiries raising works orders where appropriate and respond to the customer
• Emergency Response attendance as requested. You will be the first point of contact to attend and assess any emergency incident on the network
• Participate in emergency standby and call out duties or Winter Maintenance. This will include joining the out of hours rota or winter salting treatment
  This role of Community Steward is great for you if you can demonstrate the following behaviours or hold the following qualifications:
• Experience working in the highways maintenance industry
• Confidence to provide front line support to the public, elected Members, Parish Councils and Police
• IT literate
• Ability to analyse information and resolve problems
• You can see our D&I action plan here.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment. 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.

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.