Street Lighting Operative

Balfour Beatty; Northampton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Balfour Beatty's Living Places team as a Street Lighting Operative in Northampton, where you'll maintain vital infrastructure. This role involves hands-on responsibilities, safety management, and an opportunity to grow your career within a supportive environment. Enjoy flexible working with a comprehensive benefits package including generous leave and family-friendly policies.

Benefits

Smart working with flexibility

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience of Street Lighting Operations is necessary.
• Comfortable working at height and within a team or alone.
• Demonstrable ability to learn new processes quickly.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of Lighting Columns, changing lamps, and assisting with repairs.
• Management of site work assessments and safety observations.
• Set up and removal of on-site traffic management.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Technical knowledge

Education

Full clean UK Driving Licence

Job description

About the role

Amazing infrastructure isn't the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Living Places team as a Street Lighting Operative on the Northampton County Council Contractand you can build something to be proud of.

What you'll be doing

As a Street Lighting Operative, your main responsibilities will be as
follows:-

• Maintenance of Lighting Columns, lighting brackets, Lanterns,
  bollards and signs;
• The changing of lamps, lanterns, covers, electric cells, fuses,
  capacitors, switches;
• Assist Street Lighting Electricians with fault finding and repair
• Assist with excavations for installations of Feeder Pillars,
  Lighting columns, Signposts, Bollards, EV Charge points and
  speed cameras;
• Management of on site point of work risk assessments
• Identify and report safety observations
• Set up and removal of site traffic management / pedestrian
  Management;
• Responsible for company Property, Equipment and Vehicles;

Who we're looking for

• Experience of Street Lighting Operations
• An uncompromising approach to safety and desire to complete
  your tasks right first time
• Excellent attention to detail & self-motivated;
• Able to demonstrate technical knowledge and analytical skills;
• Must be comfortable working within a team as well as working
  alone.
• Capable of working at height
• A good level of written and numerical skills.
• A demonstrable ability to learn new processes quickly.
• IT skills Excel, Word ability to use a Tablet / Apps.
• Full clean UK Driving Licence.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]