Highways Operative
Location: East of England
City Town: Peterborough
Sector: Not Specified
Department: Operations
Salary Details: Not Specified
Advertising End Date: 21 Feb 2025
Vacancy Type: Employee
About The Role:
Milestone Infrastructure look after 24,000 miles of roads, 280,000 lighting assets and 20,000 miles of footways, always with a view to ensuring that all works are carried out as sustainably as possible and with minimal impact to local communities.
Since 2013, Milestone Infrastructure have been delivering a Term Maintenance Contract (TMC) with Peterborough City Council (PCC) to carry out highways' maintenance and improvement schemes on their network. The contract, which continues to 2028, includes the delivery of individual highway and structural projects of varying values.
We are currently looking to recruit a Highways Operative to work on our Peterborough Highway Services contract.
As a Highways Operative you will be part of our Highways Maintenance Team who are responsible for Delivery of the Term Maintenance Highways contract for Peterborough Highway Services.
As the Highways Operative your duties & responsibilities will be:
* Carry out work safely in accordance with design drawings and specification.
* Take ownership of your own individual work, ensuring that materials and equipment are fit for purpose.
* Undertake various labouring duties including excavation works, laying and levelling of kerbs, slabs and bitumen macadam, drainage and gully installations.
* Participate in daily briefings and completion of job pack documentation.
* Ensure reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of own and other persons and comply with all local and statutory Health & Safety procedures.
* Operate small plant and equipment used in highway maintenance with guidance from Site Supervisor.
* Install traffic management under instruction in accordance with method statements with guidance from Site Supervisor.
* Participate in an out of hours emergency call out system covering the Peterborough Highway Services network.
Essential Skills & Experience:
* A clean UK driving license.
* Highways work experience.
* Willingness to work outside of normal hours and weekends as required (paid as overtime) in all weathers.
* Good customer care skills (i.e. dealing with the public).
* Demonstration of capability to gain HGV Class C licence during probationary period - emergency standby and winter maintenance are a contractual part of the service we deliver.
* LGV/HGV Class C - training will be given.
* NRSWA.
* CSCS.
* Skilled and knowledgeable in patching, kerbing, ironworks, drainage and all other aspects of highway maintenance works.
Additional Information:
* You must possess a high degree of manual dexterity demonstrated through the use of hand tools.
* You will be required to work outdoors in all weathers and be required to walk and stand on uneven ground.
* You must also be able to work within a confined space, without restriction.
* Must be able to work with and be part of a team, with good positive communication skills.
About The Company:
At Milestone we embrace diversity, opening a rich potential for new ways of thinking and helping us to build successful and winning teams. We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process; and as a Disability Confident employer, if you require any adjustments that would assist you throughout your application, please contact us at [email protected] or inform the recruitment manager in the first instance and we will be pleased to offer support.
This is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Milestone. The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change at any time at the sole discretion of the Business.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Management and Manufacturing
* Industries: Construction
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