Highways Maintenance Operative - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week 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 Birmingham. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference to the high-speed road network by connecting people.

Location:
Birmingham

Contract:
Permanent, full time

Responsibilities

As Highways Maintenance Operative you'll be working within the maintenance team, supporting them during the summer months weed spraying along the hard standing surfaces of the Birmingham network with a daily target of 20,000 per m2.

Your day to day will include:

Weed spraying during summer months
Working with tools and machinery
Planting trees during winter months as part of our replanting programme with targets determined on the number of trees to plant in total

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

Demonstrate good knowledge of site / public health and safety
Show qualifications around PA1 & PA6 spraying
Provide a full driving licence

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Some of our favourites include:

New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leaves, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
Life assurance
Wellbeing resources

Who is Kier?

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress.

We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

Closing date:10 August 2023