Highways Maintenance Operative — Flexible Hours & Driving

Amey; Stone; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal development

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Annual leave 24d

Flexible benefits

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Job summary

Amey is recruiting a permanent Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Stone depot team. The role involves carrying out highway maintenance tasks on site, with 40 hours per week (Mon–Fri) and opportunities for flexible working patterns.

You will perform patching, kerbing, ironwork replacement and drainage work, operate plant and vehicles to high standards, and support incident response and winter maintenance. We value diverse candidates and provide development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in roads and/or street works.
• Hold a full UK driving licence.
• Class 2 HGV licence (essential).

Responsibilities

• Perform various highway maintenance tasks, including carriageway and footway patching, kerbing, ironwork replacement, and drainage maintenance.
• Driving and operating vehicles/plant requiring general and specialist skills, maintaining high technical standards.
• 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.

Skills

Roads works

Full UK license

Class 2 HGV

Job description

Amey is recruiting a permanent Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Stone depot team. The role involves carrying out highway maintenance tasks on site, with 40 hours per week (Mon–Fri) and opportunities for flexible working patterns.

You will perform patching, kerbing, ironwork replacement and drainage work, operate plant and vehicles to high standards, and support incident response and winter maintenance. We value diverse candidates and provide development opportunities.