Highways Maintenance Operative

Kier Group; Fareham; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Highways Maintenance Operative for its Transportation team in Fareham, Hampshire. This permanent, full-time position (39 hours per week) features an evenings/night shift pattern and a competitive hourly salary with potential overtime and night-rate uplift.

Responsibilities include highway maintenance, incident response, and maintaining vehicle records, with an emphasis on customer care and safety compliance. Driving licence and night-shift capability are required.

Qualifications

• Ability to work using own initiative and as part of a team.
• Valid UK Driving Licence or LGV Cat C
• Experience and knowledge of strict H&S operations and its practical implications
• Ability to work night shifts and contribute towards out of hours call out roster

Responsibilities

• Carryout highways maintenance duties as instructed, including winter maintenance when appropriate
• Respond promptly to incidents on the network and liaise with the Regional Network Hub Control Centre
• Promote customer care by ensuring politeness and courtesy to clients and users
• Carryout daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are maintained in good order

Skills

Teamwork

Night shifts

Health & Safety

Driving licence

Job description

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Fareham, Hampshire. Within this role, you can enjoya very competitive renumeration package, plus potential for overtime and call out, plus further uplift for night work.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference to the high-speed road network by connecting people.

Location: Fareham, Hampshire

Contract: Permanent, Full Time 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday - Evenings/Nights

Salary: £13.45 to £15.83 per hour depending on qualifications and experience

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Transportation Team, supporting them in ensuring the efficient running of the Area 3 network.

Your day to day will include:

• Carryout highways maintenance duties as instructed. Including winter maintenance when appropriate
• Respond promptly to incidents on the network as instructed and liaise with the Regional Network Hub Control Centre
• Contribute to the promotion of customercare by working closely with team members to ensure client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
• Carryout daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are maintained in good order

What are we looking for?

This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if have:

• Ability towork using own initiative and as part of a team
• Valid UK Driving Licence or LGV Cat C
• Experience and knowledge of strict H&Soperations and its practical implications
• Ability to work night shifts and contribute towards out of hours call out roster

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. 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.

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