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Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative

June 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative



We're looking for a Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative to join our Drainage Team. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive salary and annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a huge range of deals, and discounts at many of your favourite brands. We also offer 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference to the road network by connecting people.



Location: Thimble Mill Lane, Birmingham

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £22,672 - £30k plus benefits package



Responsibilities

As a Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative, you will provide all types of gully cleaning, cyclic and reactive, attending to flooding and including high-pressure jetting, and carrying out customer complaints. Iron work, drainage repairs working with various teams to solve problems and investigation.



Your duties will include:

  • To drive or operate vehicles and plant requiring specialist skills, including undertaking daily vehicle checks, routine maintenance (e.g. oil, water, wiper fluid), and cleaning; and to ensure defect reports are completed and submitted.


  • Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others within your team to ensure compliance with the relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public.


  • To keep records, complete all necessary paperwork, communicate, and liaise with other employees of Kier, sub-contractors, the emergency services, the police, the general public, clients, and customers.




    • Who are we looking for?

    This role of a Highways Drainage Maintenance Operative is great if you have the following:

    · Full UK driving licence, an HGV licence is required to drive the gully vac and is preferred.

    · CPC required to drive vehicles (this can be obtained with Kier)

    · Experience in drainage work preferred

    · Ability to work in all weathers



    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 leaves, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • A fantastic, matched pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Wellbeing resources
  • Keir's Green Car Scheme
    • 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: 12 July 2023

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








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