Highway maintenance Operative - (Dalston, Cumbria)

Balfour Beatty; Carlisle; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Highway Maintenance Operative to join their regional team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining roads and providing essential winter maintenance services. You will also engage in traffic management and emergency response activities, ensuring all operations comply with health and safety standards. This position offers the chance to contribute to vital infrastructure projects that enhance community connectivity and safety. With a focus on flexibility and work-life balance, this opportunity allows you to play a key role in maintaining the roads that support local economies.

Benefits

Smart working with flexible hours

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension plan

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Hold a Class 1 or 2 LGV licence and a CSCS card.
• Knowledge of health & safety procedures and Driver CPC qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide winter maintenance and participate in emergency response.
• Complete civil works and ensure compliance with CDM standards.

Skills

Health & Safety Awareness

Traffic Management

Emergency Response

Civil Works Completion

CDM Compliance

Education

Class 1 or 2 LGV Licence

Driver CPC Qualification

CSCS Card

Tools

Cat Scanner

NRSWA Operative

Telehandler

CPCS Mini Digger

CPCS Dumper

CPCS Slinger/Signaller

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Highway Maintenance Operative to join our regional team based in Dalston, Carlisle and maintaining roads within north and west Cumbria.

What you'll be doing

As a Highway Maintenance Operative, you will:

• Provide winter maintenance, including participating in a shift system and winter standby rota.
• Be responsible for traffic management.
• Participate in emergency response on a rostered basis.
• Complete civil works e.g. Carriageway patching, drainage and fencing repairs.
• Complete cyclic works e.g. Sign cleaning, gully cleaning and grass cutting.
• Ensure all works are carried out in accordance with CDM.

Who we're looking for

You will:

• Hold a Class 1 or 2 LGV licence.
• Have knowledge and awareness of health & safety procedures and standards.
• Be in receipt or working towards Driver CPC qualification.
• Hold a CSCS card.
• RTM Operative (T1/T2).
• CDM Awareness.

Additional qualifications:

• Cat Scanner.
• NRSWA Operative.
• SMSTS or SSSTS.
• Telehandler.
• CPCS Mini Digger.
• CPCS Dumper.
• CPCS Slinger/Signaller.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About us

From Dunfermline's tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.

We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.

Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland's transition towards net zero in the built environment.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.