Highways Maintenance Operative - Ipswich, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group
Kier Group
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Ipswich, United Kingdom

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We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Highways Team based in Suffolk.

Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and even more.


Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference.

Connecting roads, connecting people.


Location:
Ipswich / Halesworth / Rougham


Contract:
Full Time, Permanent


Salary:
£Competitive


Responsibilities


As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Highways Team, supporting them to respond promptly to incidents on the network as instructed.


Your day to day will include:

  • Deliver operational activities across the Suffolk Highways contract, including reactive, cyclical, winter and schemes related to capital maintenance and improvement works
  • Ensure all works carried out meet the required quality standards and are completed in line with associated time frames, providing information to certify works risks are mitigated and commercial returns are realised, all in accordance with Suffolk Highways processes and procedures.
  • Work closely with other Suffolk Highways business functions, to achieve the successful delivery of the annual contractor's plan and programme.

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

  • Are New Roads Street Works Act (NRSWA) accredited as well as completed cable avoidance training
  • Demonstrate experience of appropriate traffic management requirements, including the signing and guarding of highway works.
  • Hold 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 leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • A fantastic matched pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Wellbeing resources
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme

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: 27 May 2023
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