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Highways Maintenance Operative

January 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Highways Maintenance Operative

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Highways Team based in Suffolk. 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: Ipswich / Halesworth / Rougham

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £Competitive

Responsibilities

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Highways Team, supporting them to respond promptly to incidents on the network as instructed.

Your day to day will include:

  • Deliver operational activities across the Suffolk Highways contract, including reactive, cyclical, winter and schemes related to capital maintenance and improvement works
  • Ensure all works carried out meet the required quality standards and are completed in line with associated time frames, providing information to certify works risks are mitigated and commercial returns are realised, all in accordance with Suffolk Highways processes and procedures.
  • Work closely with other Suffolk Highways business functions, to achieve the successful delivery of the annual contractor's plan and programme.
Who are we looking for?

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

  • Are New Roads Street Works Act (NRSWA) accredited as well as completed cable avoidance training
  • Demonstrate experience of appropriate traffic management requirements, including the signing and guarding of highway works.
  • Hold a full driving licence
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: 19 February 2023

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

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