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General Operative

October 3, 2022 | Comments Off on General Operative

We're looking for a General Operative to join our Highways Team based in Staines. 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.

Location: Wraysbury, Staines

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £competitive

Responsibilities

As a General Operative, you'll be working within the Highways Team and will form part of a large work force delivering a number of services across the contract including reactive maintenance, immediate response, schemes, minor planned drainage works.

Your day to day will include:

  • When trained to do so, operate a variety of plant and equipment to carry out required duties effectively
  • Assist with ensuring the site and company equipment is always secure. It is paramount all health and safety measures are adhered to and followed at all times.
  • Working within different teams you will from part of our call out rota system covering immediate response throughout the year and winter maintenance duties/call outs between October & April
Who are we looking for?

This role of a General Operative is great for you if you have:

  • 12ab Lantra traffic management trained with a basic Lantra VRS qualification
  • Hold a full driving licence as well as a valid CSCS card
  • Understand asset management awareness and have experience and knowledge of strict health & safety operations and its practical implications
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.

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
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

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.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 31st October 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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