Operative - Glastonbury, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

Verified Company

Glastonbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in either of the following depots, Glastonbury, Yeovil or Bridgwater.

Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we Your journey is our journey.

Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location:
Glastonbury / Yeovil / Bridgwater

Contract:
Permanent, Full time

What will you be responsible for?
As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Operative team, supporting them with reactive and planned highways maintenance works such as pothole repairs, kerb laying, drainage, out-of-hours emergency call
- out and Minor civils works / improvement works and support severe weather operations efficient and timely delivery of the highway service requirements across Somerset.

Your day to day will include:

Contributing to the promotions 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 incidents on the network within designated timescales ensuring relevant parties including the network hub are updated through use of appropriate communication systems, liaising with emergency services and ensuring traffic disruption is minimised, including installation and removal of emergency traffic management signage
Carrying out routine maintenance and repairs on the network, operating a variety of plant and equipment, carrying out required duties effectively, ensuring site and company equipment is always secure, raising problems/queries with designated supervisor Completing daily record sheets as required
Conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are cleaned and maintained in good order

What are we looking for?
This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if:

You are Street Works qualified
Drive and hold a full driving licence
Can work on your own initiative and as part of a team

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.

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