Community Steward

Kier Group plc; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Community Steward to join their Transportation team in Wellingborough. In this role, you'll play a crucial part in maintaining community highways, engaging with local councils, and addressing public queries. This position offers a competitive benefits package, including a matched pension scheme and flexible working hours. If you're passionate about community service and have a strong understanding of health and safety, this is the perfect opportunity to make a difference in your local area.

Benefits

Matched Pension Scheme

24/7 Virtual GP Service

Competitive Annual Holiday Entitlement

Opportunities to Buy/Sell Leave

Qualifications

• Understanding of health & safety regulations.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Responding to customer enquiries about highways maintenance.
• Liaising with local councils and community representatives.
• Ensuring health and safety compliance on site.

Skills

Health & Safety Knowledge

Stakeholder Communication

Driving License

Job description

We're looking for a Community Steward to join our Transportation team based in Wellingborough Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave 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: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Hours: 40 hours per week

What will you be responsible for?

As Community Steward for Northamptonshire highways, you'll be working within the Customer Services team, supporting them with customer queries regarding highways maintenance (potholes, road markings, drainage issues, etc.) reported via our online public reporting system.

Your day to day will include:

• Responding to enquiries received from 3rd parties and provide clear detail on the action to be taken, resolving faults reported by customers and engaging with local communities and local Councils
• General site supervision duties, completion of daily and weekly record returns, with a need to be involved in out of hour's activities and be flexible in shift patterns, working hours, overnights etc.
• Liaising with works gangs and the customer team, as well as Parish Council representatives, the local authority, Kier managers, community engineers and members of the community
• Inspecting reactive maintenance reports from Street Doctor (public enquiries), actioning and ensuring close out and feedback to the community in line with KPIs, ensuring the effective use and management of the Kier Manager system within the team
• Health and Safety compliance, including all associated paperwork, completing minor repairs and / or make safe

What are we looking for?

This role of Community Steward is great for you if:

• You drive and hold a full driving licence
• Demonstrate a good understanding of health & safety
• Can work with a range of stakeholders with the ability to communicate in a technical and non-technical manner

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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