Winter Maintenance Seasonal Driver - Chichester, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty

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Chichester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a
Zero Hour Winter Maintenance Driver
to join our Living Places business unit to work across West Sussex
.

Role Purpose:

You will be required to take part in the Winter Service Delivery, ensuring the highway is salted in preparation for cold/icy conditions keeping the highway safe for general users, as well as the removal of Snow in such conditions.
All works undertaken by the Winter Maintenance Operative / Driver must be completed to the required Health, Safety and Quality standards.
You will be required to be available on a standby rota every other week from 1st November to 30th April. Shifts worked will be dictated by a daily decision sent via text message by 14:00hrs

What you'll be doing
As a
Zero Hour Winter Maintenance Driver**, you will have the following accountabilities:

Technical / Operations

Ensure that all Daily vehicle Checks are undertaken and reported.
Conduct winter gritting activities against required quality standards.
Perform driving activities to assigned Winter Maintenance Routes.
Ensure that the fleet is refuelled at the end of each shift.
Compliance with all fleet movement procedures at the operational depot.

Service Delivery

Contribute to the overall profitability of the services provided through effective use of resources.

Compliance

Working within a culture of Zero Harm embedding the 4 Golden Rules within all aspects of service delivery
Ensuring that driver hours are sufficient to negate any breaches to the EU/UK Domestic drivers hours regulations

Report all observations

Close Calls and Good Practices
Compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, specifically H & S
Develop and maintain good working relationships across all teams

Who we're looking for

The following Qualifications are Mandatory:

Full clean driving licence
Class C Licence
CPC

The following is desirable but not essential as training can be provided.**- Winter Service - Units 513 and 580.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too.

You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life.

Here are some of our key benefits:

Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play.

We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow.

As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

Diversity and inclusion

Job Reference:
BBUK07895