Highways Maintenance Operative

Inclusionmaking Kier; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading transportation company in the UK is seeking a Highways Maintenance Operative to join the team. The role involves ensuring excellent customer care, responding to highway defects, and maintaining vehicles. Candidates should have a full driving licence, strong communication skills, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Attractive benefits include a pension scheme and annual holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Competitive holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Full driving licence required, LGV training provided.
• Ability to communicate faults or issues effectively.
• Familiarity with tablet devices for reporting and records.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer care and ensure polite interactions.
• Respond to highway defects in a timely manner.
• Use tablet devices for accurate record keeping.
• Conduct daily vehicle maintenance checks.

Skills

Full driving licence

Ability to work independently and in a team

Strong communication skills

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Yeovil. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and even more.

Your Day to Day Responsibilities

• Contributing to the promotions of customer care by working closely with team members, ensuring client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
• Responding to defects on the highway within designated timescales, ensuring relevant parties are updated through tablet devices (applications), including installation and removal of emergency traffic management signage
• Using tablet devices (applications) at incidents and emergency repairs on the network and, where required, completing any required record sheets, utilising the tablet devices to provide accurate records of works on the network
• Conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensuring vehicles are cleaned and maintained in good order

What Are We Looking For?

• Drive and hold a full driving licence (LGV training will be provided once you meet necessary business targets)
• Can work on your own initiative and as part of a team, communicating faults or issues

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

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.

Disability Confident

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.

About Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .