Highways Maintenance Ganger

Amey Ltd; Forfar; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Permanent Highway Maintenance Ganger in Forfar, where your skills in highway maintenance and leadership will shine. This role offers the chance to work on vital infrastructure projects, ensuring safe and reliable journeys for road users. You'll lead a dedicated team, engage in hands-on maintenance tasks, and benefit from a supportive environment that prioritizes your career development. With a focus on flexibility and personal growth, this position is perfect for those looking to make a real impact while enjoying a range of attractive benefits. Apply today to embark on a rewarding career journey!

Benefits

Career Development

Generous pension scheme

Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Flexible benefits scheme

Discounts from leading retailers

Community Involvement Days

Qualifications

• Experience in highway maintenance and civils schemes is essential.
• Leadership capabilities to manage a squad effectively.

Responsibilities

• Undertake all aspects of highway maintenance including drainage and kerbing.
• Lead a squad and ensure safety during operations.

Skills

Highway Maintenance

Leadership

HGV Class 2 licence

Civils experience

Trade experience

Street Works experience

Education

Relevant vocational training

Tools

Vehicles/Plant

Job description

Your New Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Permanent Highway Maintenance Ganger to join our NMC North East Account in Forfar.

Our NMC NE Account, awarded to us in 2022, supports Transport Scotland. This account delivers improved service levels to the trunk road network, ensuring consistent, predictable, and reliable journeys for road users. Works will cover maintenance, road safety, bridges, structures, and discrete improvement schemes while considering the Scottish Government's climate change and sustainability targets. We will also implement an enhanced winter and incident response service, improved communications, and new technologies for better management of trunk network assets and maintenance activities.

Highway Maintenance Ganger plays an important part in the construction of minor and major civils schemes, as well as routine maintenance activities.

The standard hours of work are 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday. The role will involve overtime, participation in on-call rotas, and night shift working where required by the business.

You will be responsible for:

• Undertaking all aspects of highway maintenance works including, but not limited to, drainage, kerbing, and other civils schemes.
• Leading a squad and working closely with other gangers.
• Completing associated scheme records to a high quality, such as daily site diaries and measurement records.
• Driving/operating vehicles/plant, ensuring vehicle checks, routing maintenance, and cleaning are carried out.
• Winter Maintenance - including emergency call-out and standby.
• Ensuring the safety of yourself and the team is paramount.

What makes this role unique is that if you join our team, you'll have the chance to focus on the parts of your role you enjoy the most. Whether it's further training to broaden your skills, working closely with clients to build relationships, or developing leadership capabilities, our environment is one of collaboration and support where the direction of your career is led by you.

It would be ideal if you have previous winter experience and a valid HGV Class 2 licence. However, HGV training can be provided where suitable for the right candidate.

It would be desirable if you have previous Civils, Trade, or Street Works experience to help you hit the ground running.

What we offer you

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits, and support that helps you through all life's ups and downs. It's the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers, and we have a competitive reward and benefits program:

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan.
• Pension - Generous pension scheme which we will contribute to.
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays.
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving, and gym membership.
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, and dental vouchers.
• Social Value - You'll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

Please contact our recruitment team at (url removed) to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today - We are excited to hear from you!