Operative

Kier Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A national transportation company is looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative in Bridgwater, UK. This full-time permanent role involves supporting highway service delivery and responding to defects. Candidates should hold a full driving licence and be able to work well in a team. Competitive salary and various benefits are offered.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Annual holiday entitlement

Training opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to drive and hold a full driving licence.
• Work on your own initiative and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Support the efficient delivery of highway service requirements.
• Respond to highway defects promptly and communicate updates via tablet.
• Conduct daily defect reports on vehicles.

Skills

Full driving licence

Team communication

Job description

We're looking for Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Bridgwater. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and even more. Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Bridgwater, Somerset

Contract: Permanent, Full time

Salary: £26,208 to £29,000 depending on experience + call out + overtime

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 Operative team, supporting them with the efficient and timely delivery of highway service requirements across the Somerset network. Carrying out reactive works, emergency response, minor civils works / improvement works, involvement with winter maintenance activity will be necessary along with supporting severe weather operations where required.

• 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 in providing accurate records of works on the network
• Conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure 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.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier