Skilled Operative

Kier Group; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group in Norwich seeks a Skilled Operative (Civils/Mechanical) to join the Anglian Water IOS team. You will contribute to delivering both civil and mechanical works across water environments, ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance on site.

Your day-to-day includes risk assessments, reading drawings, installing mechanical plant and drainage works, and helping meet project timelines within budget. Willingness to travel and hold a valid CSCS/EUSR card is essential.

Qualifications

• Requires experience in water industry environments (clean water/wastewater) and site operations.
• CSCS or EUSR card to demonstrate industry standards compliance.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, plans and specifications; existing pipe laying and drainage experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Attend safety briefings and perform daily risk assessments.
• Read and interpret drawings, plans and specs to support delivery of works.
• Install and operate mechanical plant, formwork, shoring, and excavation works as required.
• Construct underground chambers and complete pipe laying and drainage activities.
• Support timely project delivery within budget while ensuring environmental controls and water hygiene.

Skills

Safety awareness

Reading drawings

Site operations

IT proficiency

Tools

CSCS/EUSR card

Full driving licence

Job description

We're looking for a Skilled Operative (Civils/Mechanical) to join our Anglian Water team based in Norwich, Norfolk.

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 opportunity where you'll contribute to delivering a wide range of mechanical and civil engineering activities across water and water recycling environments. You'll work safely, efficiently, and to a consistently high standard, with absolute adherence to health, safety, quality, and performance standards. All works comply with water industry regulations and meet approved standards.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Skilled Operative, you'll be working within the Anglian Water IOS team,supporting them in delivering high-quality infrastructure solutions.

Your day to day will include:

• Attending safety briefings and carrying out daily risk assessments to ensure safe working practices
• Reading and interpreting drawings, plans, and specifications to support effective delivery of works
• Installing and operating mechanical plant, formwork, shoring systems, and excavation works to required standards
• Constructing underground chambers and completing pipe laying and drainage activities in line with specifications
• Contributing to timely project delivery within budget while promoting environmental controls and water hygiene requirements

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 clean water and wastewater environments
• Experience working on water or wastewater treatment works, with familiarity of site operations, safety controls and working alongside multidisciplinary team
• A valid CSCS or EUSR card,demonstrating compliance with industry standards
• Proven pipe laying, drainage, and deep drainage experience, including trench support and excavation safety
• Experience within Mechanical, Civil Engineering or Construction industry, contributing to site-based delivery of infrastructure projects
• Good understanding of legislative and corporate SHEQ and legal requirements, including risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work
• Full driving licencewith flexibility to travel to operational sites as required
• Good IT skills and can use mobile applications for reporting, permits, and daily records
• Confined spaces training, or willingness to complete the required training

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.

• Skilled Operative IOS Job Description.pdf