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Highways Maintenance Operative
April 19, 2023 | Comments Off on Highways Maintenance Operative
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Contract: Full time
Salary: Up to £13.25 per hour + Pension + Benefits + Life assurance
Responsibilities
As Highways Maintenance Operative you'll be working within the Operative team, supporting them with reactive and planned highways maintenance works such as pothole repairs, kerb laying, drainage, out of hours emergency call out and winter maintenance duties
Your day to day will include:
- Working in close cooperation with team members and subcontractors, contributing to the maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment
- Carrying out collective and personal on-site risk assessments in accordance with company requirements, contributing to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members to ensure client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
- Operating a variety of plant and equipment, carrying out required duties effectively, training will be provided if required, ensuring site and company equipment is always secure, use of Confirm application accurately recording siteworks and upload photographic evidence
- Completing daily record sheets as required, conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are maintained in good order
This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if you can:
- Show a willingness to develop and learn within a highways maintenance environment, work outside, have a flexible approach to working patterns
- Drive and hold a full driving licence
- Contribute to a weekend, bank holiday and out of hours / call out roster
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
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
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: 19 May 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.