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Yard Operative

February 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Yard Operative

We're looking for a Yard Operative to join our team based in Brixworth. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family plus 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: Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Contract: Full time

Responsibilities

As Yard Operative, you'll be working within the Maintenance team, supporting them with the day-to-day management of the depot.

Your day to day will include:

  • Accepting and processing deliveries, management of salt deliveries, fuel stocks and distribution, loading of vehicles and skips
  • Keeping an inventory of stock levels, including issuing of materials, PPE etc, administration of pool cars
  • Conducting depot inspections with general cleanliness and tidiness of the depot, championing Kier health & safety protocols and PPE requirements within the depot
  • Monitoring of environmental issues within the depot, undertaking treatment of emergency spillages or salting during working hours
Who are we looking for?

This role of Yard Operative is great for you if you can:

  • Understand and use Microsoft Office to a basic level, includes use of spreadsheets, word documents
  • Display knowledge of health and safety in respect of self, the team, and members of the public
  • Produce a full driving licence with HGV Class 2
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
  • Wellbeing resources
  • Life assurance
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:

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:

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:

Closing date: 29 March 2023

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

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