Highways maintenance operative

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Company Name: Kier

Job Description

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Bridgwater. In this role you can enjoy a fantastic pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and more. Location: Bridgwater, Somerset. Contract: Permanent, Full time. Salary: £27,976 to £29,000 depending on experience, plus call out and 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. This includes reactive works, emergency response, minor civil works, improvement works, winter maintenance activity, and supporting severe weather operations where required.

Your day to day will include:

• Contributing to the promotion 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 and installing and removing emergency traffic management signage
• Using tablet devices at incidents and emergency repairs on the network and 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 ensuring vehicles are cleaned and maintained in good order

Qualifications

We look for:

• Driver with a full driving licence (LGV training provided once business targets are met)
• Can work on your own initiative and as part of a team, communicating faults or issues
• Transferrable skills are welcome; even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can discuss further

Rewards and Benefits

We are proud to offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority. We are Disability Confident, ensuring a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.