Highways Maintenance Operative - Albrighton, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Albrighton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Shrewsbury. We will consider, trainees, operatives, operatives with HGV and skilled operatives.

Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement 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:
Oswestry, Shropshire

Contract:
Full time

Salary:
Up to £13.25 per hour + Pension + Benefits + Life assurance

Responsibilities

As 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 winter maintenance duties.

Your day to day will include:

Working in close cooperation with team members and subcontractors, contributing to the maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment.
Carrying out collective and personal onsite risk assessments in accordance with company requirements, contributing to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members to ensure client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
Completing daily record sheets as required, conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are maintained in good order.

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

Show a willingness to develop and learn within a highways maintenance environment, work outside, have a flexible approach to working patterns
UK driving licence
Contribute to a weekend, bank holiday and out of hours / call out roster

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 familyfriendly policies, including eight weeks of paternity leave, 26 weeks of maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
Kier's Green Car Scheme
A huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands

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:12 August 2023