Highways Maintenance Operative

ameygroupi; Penkridge; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Cycle to Work

Discounts through Save with Amey

Enhanced annual leave (24 days)

Job summary

Amey is seeking a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our team at the Gailey depot. The role is on-site with a standard 40-hour week (Mon–Fri) and involves highway maintenance tasks across the county, in partnership with Staffordshire County Council.

You will work with a skilled team, attend briefings, and participate in standby rotations for incident response and winter services. We welcome diverse applicants and offer development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in roads and/or street works.
• Hold a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Perform highway maintenance tasks including patching, kerbing, ironwork replacement, and drainage maintenance.
• Attend work briefings to receive driving/operating instructions for vehicles and plant equipment.
• Participate in 24hr standby rotations for incident response and winter maintenance.
• Allocate and track time and resources using the allocation system.
• Keep accurate records and communicate with Amey employees, sub-contractors, emergency services and clients.

Skills

Roads/Street works

UK driving licence

Job description

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We have a fantastic opportunity for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our vibrant, inclusive community that celebrates our differences and makes a real impact across the UK. This role will be based on-site at our Gailey depot (ST19 5PR).

What will the role offer?

Working at Amey puts you at the centre of an inspiring expert team. Staffordshire County Council (SCC) and Amey have worked in partnership since 2014, delivering highways maintenance and management services across the county.

The standard hours of work are 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

We offer a range of flexible working practices, including hybrid, part-time and flexible working patterns. With our network of offices across the UK, we are open to discussing working options that match your needs, with the flexibility to change how you work as your life evolves.

What you will be doing

• Perform various highway maintenance tasks, including carriageway and footway patching, kerbing, ironwork replacement, and drainage maintenance.
• Attend work briefings to receive instructions and guidance on driving/operating vehicles and plant equipment with both general and specialized skills.
• Participate in 24hr standby rotations during summer and winter for incident response, winter maintenance services, precautionary gritting, and snow clearance.
• Allocate and track time and resource utilization in accordance with the operated allocation system.
• Keep accurate records and complete all necessary paperwork, maintaining communication and liaising with Amey employees, sub-contractors, emergency services, police, clients, and customers.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in roads and/or street works
• Hold a full UK driving licence.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates. If you have most but not all these skills and experiences, we encourage you to apply, and we will provide you with development or training to support you.

What we can offer you

Our benefits are designed to help you thrive at work and in your home life. You will have the flexibility to choose benefits and development opportunities that are best for you.

Some of our benefits include:

• Exceptional personal development, training and progression plans, designed to allow you to shine in your career, all in line with your personal ambition
• Competitive salary and compensation
• Generous pension scheme, with extra contributions from Amey
• 24 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Flexible benefits scheme, including the option to buy additional annual leave and insurance benefits, Cycle2Work scheme and access to discounted gym membership
• Our Save with Amey programme gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in
• Family friendly policies for new parents or if you provide care for a dependant
• Membership of our Affinity Networks who connect, support and inspire diverse communities within Amey
• Two Social Impact Days each year, for volunteering and fundraising opportunities

About Amey

Who we are

Amey is a global, integrated infrastructure consultancy and operations partner. We design, deliver, protect, and maintain critical assets and systems.

What we do

We advise, design, finance, deliver, and enhance civic, transport, and defence systems. By combining strategic intelligence, engineering, infrastructure finance, and operational expertise, we create secure, resilient, compliant, and high-value outcomes across the lifecycles of new and legacy assets.

To find out more visit our website amey.co.uk/careers

Application Guidance

Diversity and Inclusion

We constantly evolve how we work to reflect the different needs and backgrounds of our employees. We seek out the skills, joy and energy that often-marginalised groups can bring to our teams and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

We are committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.