Skilled Roadworker - Bankhead Depot

The City of Edinburgh Council; Easter Howgate; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Additional overtime

Flexible annual leave

On-call payments

Job summary

The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking a Skilled Roadworker to join the Roads Operations team at Bankhead Depot. The role focuses on delivering road and street maintenance, drainage, and winter-related works to keep Edinburgh moving safely.

Candidates should have drainage, surfacing or related experience, a full UK driving licence, and the ability to work with limited supervision. On-call payments and overtime opportunities enhance earnings.

Qualifications

• Full UK Driving Licence is essential.
• Experience in drainage, hard landscape, carriageway marking or surfacing.

Responsibilities

• Carry out surfacing, drainage, hard landscaping and carriageway marking tasks.
• Drive vehicles appropriate to licence type and perform checks and paperwork.
• Act as first point of contact with local community, providing service-related advice.
• Maintain resources and ensure adherence to standards and timescales.

Skills

Driving licence

Handheld technology

Equipment/machinery знowledge

Drainage experience

Job description

Skilled Roadworker

Bankhead Depot

Salary: £30,188 - £34,452 (plus additional working payments depending on shifts)

Hours: 36 per week

Contractual disturbance payments £1,774.2

Contractual Summer and Winter on call payments £3,159.28

Additional overtime

Flexible annual leave

Skilled Roadworkers are key members of the Roads Operations Team. If you want to be able to say, 'I did that', 'I made a difference' and 'I made my mark', join our team and play a central role in leading and shaping the success of Roads Operations, delivering road and street maintenance and improvements and also keeping people moving safely about the City during Winter Weather.

We are looking for Skilled Roadworkers with drainage, surfacing and/or slabbing/kerbing experience in a roads environment to join our existing squads city-wide and ensure our streets are maintained to the highest standards. Successful applicants will have potential opportunity to increase earnings by working occasional overtime and winter maintenance.

Based at our Bankhead Depot, Roads Operations offers an environment in which workers are valued and respected with a key focus on training and development of our staff to ensure they can undertake multiple different roads operations and develop their skills base.

You will undertake a range of services and activities, including Surfacing, drainage, Hardland Scaping & carriageway marking. You will drive vehicles appropriate to the licence type held and be responsible for the vehicle and undertake appropriate checks and paperwork. You will act as a first point of contact with the local community providing advice ensuring the highest possible standards of customer care are maintained.

Full UK Driving Licence is essential.

The post holder

• shall be required to demonstrate an ability to work with handheld technology
• shall demonstrate sound knowledge of equipment and machinery used within roads
• operations
• will have experience of Drainage, hard land Scape, Carriageway marking or Surfacing
• Will be able to work with the minimum of supervision and prioritise workloads ensuring
• relevant
• standards and timescales are met
• Will ensure that resources allocated are maintained and used appropriately
• Will be able to communicate with members of the public to advice on service-related issues
• and provide feed-back to management

This post requires a minimum UK Driving Licence to drive vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We’re interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be anassessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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