We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Wellington. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and more.
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Wellington, Somerset
Contract: Permanent, Full time
What will you be responsible for?
As a 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 minor civils works/improvement works, as well as supporting severe weather operations for efficient and timely delivery of the highway service requirements across Somerset.
Your day to day will include:
* Contributing to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members, ensuring clients and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner.
* Responding to incidents on the network within designated timescales, ensuring relevant parties including the network hub are updated through appropriate communication systems, liaising with emergency services, and ensuring traffic disruption is minimized, including installation and removal of emergency traffic management signage.
* Carrying out routine maintenance and repairs on the network, operating a variety of plant and equipment, ensuring site and company equipment is always secure, and raising problems/queries with the designated supervisor while completing daily record sheets as required.
* Using WMS/MMW applications at incidents and emergency repairs on the network and completing any required record sheets to provide accurate records of works carried out on the network.
* Conducting daily defect reports on vehicles and ensuring vehicles are cleaned and maintained in good order.
What are we looking for?
This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if:
* You are Street Works qualified.
* You drive and hold a full driving licence.
* You can work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
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.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
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 initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.
We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier
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