What's involved with this role: Temporary Plant Operator - Highways Operations Job Ref: Exeter 5257531 Pay Rate: Up to £13.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: Leicestershire Candidates must be prepared to travel across the borough. The purpose of the role is to work as a member of a team to deliver a best value, customer-focussed service throughout Leicestershire and occasionally surrounding counties, working flexibly, efficiently and effectively to maintain highways and footpaths, construct new roadways and structures, and effect solutions to environmental events in accordance with statutory requirements Key Responsibilities: Operate heavy plant, such as tractors, roadmenders, multi-hog and other horticultural machinery. Work safely on the live public highway, observing Traffic Management requirements at all times. Work on a range of highways activities such as grass, verge and hedgerow cutting, small to medium patching works and other general maintenance activities. Maintain training records in accordance with the requirements of the personal development process. Comply with all authority and departmental policies, management systems, procedures and working practices (especially in relation to Health and Safety procedures). Any other reasonable duties which may be allocated from time to time by management commensurate with the responsibilities of the post. Actively promote equality of opportunity, work towards eliminating discrimination and promote good relations between all groups of people. Qualifications: CSCS H&S Test Pass Certificate. Skilled Road-worker Trades Test Assessment. NVQ level 2 in Highway Maintenance or similar. New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) Accreditation Accredited and relevant H&S Training Records and Certification (e.g. NPORS plant operator, IOSH working safely, Appointed Person, etc). Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Extensive ability to take measurements and make calculations (e.g. areas, volumes and weights. Extensive knowledge of construction specifications, materials, compaction and workmanship requirements. Extensive knowledge of safe working practices using plant and machinery. Ability to drive a range of heavy plant, and/or other horticultural equipment. Knowledge of Traffic Management requirements when working on the live highway. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle required for this role. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please