Skilled Operative

Kier Group; Norwich; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Skilled Operative to join the Anglian Water team in Norwich, delivering a range of mechanical and civil activities across water and water recycling environments. The role is site-based and requires safe, efficient, and high-standard work within a collaborative team.

You will support infrastructure projects, perform risk assessments, interpret drawings, and operate plant on active sites.

Qualifications

• Water industry experience and understanding of clean water and wastewater environments
• Valid CSCS or EUSR card demonstrating safety standards
• Proven pipe laying, drainage and deep drainage experience including trench support
• Good health, safety, quality awareness and risk assessment abilities
• IT literacy for reporting on mobile devices
• Full driving licence with ability to travel to sites
• Confined spaces training or willingness to complete training

Responsibilities

• Carrying out daily point of works risk assessments and ensuring site health, safety and quality requirements
• Reading and interpreting drawings, plans and inspection procedures to deliver works to specification
• Placing and finishing concrete, setting out and constructing underground chambers
• Operating mechanical plant safely (e.g., excavators, rollers, dumpers) to required heights and levels
• Excavating trial holes and using Vac-Ex techniques to locate buried services and perform confined space works

Job description

We're looking for a Skilled Operative to join our Anglian Water team based in Norwich

Location: Norwich, Norfolk

Hours: 45 hours per week

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

This is an exciting site-based, multi-skilled role where you'll deliver a wide range of mechanical and civil engineering activities across both water and water recycling environments. Working safely, efficiently, and to a consistently high standard, you'll be part of a collaborative team committed to delivering high-quality solutions.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Skilled Operative, you'll be working within the Anglian Water IOS team, supporting them in delivering infrastructure projects across water and wastewater treatment environments.

Your day to day will include:

• Carrying out daily point of works risk assessments and ensuring compliance with all operational site health, safety, and quality requirements
• Reading and interpreting drawings, plans, and inspection procedures to deliver works accurately to specification
• Placing and finishing concrete, setting out and installing formwork, and constructing underground chambers
• Operating mechanical plant safely, including excavators, rollers, and dumpers, while working accurately to heights and levels
• Excavating trial holes and using Vac-Ex techniques to safely locate buried services, and undertaking medium-risk confined space works

What are we looking for?

This role of Skilled Operative is great for you if you hold:

• Knowledge and experience within the water industry, including an understanding of clean water and wastewater networks and treatment processes and operational environments
• Experience working on water or wastewater treatment works, with familarity of site operations, safety controls, and working alongside multidisciplinary teams
• Valid CSCS or EUSR card, demonstrating compliance with industry competency and safety standards
• Proven pipe laying, drainage and deep drainage experience, including trench support and excavation safety, and installation to specification
• Good understanding of legislative and corporate health, safety, quality, and legal requirements, including risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work
• Good IT skills with the ability to use work-based applications on mobile phones or tablets for reporting, permits, and daily records
• Full driving licence with flexibility to travel to operational sites as required
• Confined spaces training, or a clear willingness to complete the required training to meet site and safety requirements

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.