Level 1 Maintenance Operative – M25, London

Connect Plus Services; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Level 1 Maintenance Operative to join their team on the M25. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on Europe's busiest motorway, ensuring safety and efficiency in maintenance operations. You will be responsible for various tasks, including traffic management, vehicle inspections, and debris clearance, all while adhering to high standards of safety and communication. Join a diverse workforce committed to creating an inclusive environment and enjoy a challenging career in highways maintenance that promises growth and development. If you are ready to make a significant impact on vital infrastructure, this position is for you.

Qualifications

• Valid UK Driving Licence (minimum category C) is essential.
• CSCS Operative Card required for site work.

Responsibilities

• Carry out Sweeper Driver duties and maintain vehicle inspections.
• Implement Traffic Management and ensure safety compliance.

Skills

Traffic Management

Health & Safety Compliance

Vehicle Maintenance

Communication Skills

Education

UK Driving Licence (Category C)

CSCS Operative Card

Tools

Mobile Communication Devices

Job description

Level 1 Maintenance Operative – M25, London

This is a key role that involves carrying out Sweeper Driver duties around the M25. You are required to undertake any Sweeper operation identified on the M25 DBFO contract. Making sure you carry out your daily vehicle/Plant inspections. Attending road traffic collisions and clearing of debris or spillages. Maintaining paperwork and records at high standards where appropriate. Once you have carried out your duties you will be required to tip and empty your vehicle at a location given. You will also be required to carry out Traffic Management, litter picking, strimming, removal of debris plus any other duties requested to you by your Shift/line Manager.

• Undertake activities, as instructed, with capabilities to ensure that your area of responsibility is maintained. This will include but not exclusive to:
  • cyclical maintenance
  • carriageway repairs
  • soft estate maintenance (e.g. grassland maintenance)
  • litter picking
  • sign maintenance
  • cleansing
  • safety fence repairs
  • boundary fence repairs
  • any other duties allocated by Line Managers
• Implement Chapter 8 compliant Traffic Management in line with CPS policies, method statements, risk assessments and industry standards.
• Provide accurate and legible written and verbal communication in the form of reports and records as required.
• Use mobile communication/data devices to accurately input data for record purposes to form reports and business records as required.
• Undertake routine vehicle checks and maintain accurate and up to date driving records in line with legislation in accordance with CPS procedures and legislation.
• Taking due care of any CPS property including but not limited to tablets, vehicles and radios.
• Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed.
• Participate in Winter Service rota as required.
• Attend training courses as required.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities.

Working arrangements

• Expected to work Mon-Fri, day and night shifts on a rotating basis with 3 weeks of night shifts to 1 week of day shifts.
• Day shifts are 07:00 to 16:00 with a 45-minute break, night shifts are 20:30 to 05:30.
• Reasonable level of travel around M25 network and between depots.
• Travel to meetings, training and works sites outside normal operational area.
• Expected to participate in out of hours call out rotas e.g. Winter Maintenance.

Who we’re looking for

Qualifications (Essential)

• UK Driving Licence, minimum category C (LGV Class 2)
• CSCS Operative Card
• Successfully pass the Security check as part of recruitment process
• Successfully pass the annual driving license check
• Successfully pass pre-employment Drug & Alcohol test and further test upon request
• Successfully pass the Company’s health screening programme
• Ability to understand and follow Health & Safety briefings and instructions and contribute to Zero Harm
• Physically able to deploy traffic management (e.g. placing and lifting cones and signage).

Why work for us

CPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to [e-mail]

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop.