Highways Ganger
Salary: From £34,796 per year
Grade: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
Location: Skipton, North Yorkshire
Starting salary £34,796 plus additional hours, standby and winter maintenance payments. Typical earnings can be significantly higher depending on participation in call-out and winter duties.
Lead a highways team. Build your career. Help keep North Yorkshire moving.
Looking for more responsibility, stable employment and the opportunity to earn extra through overtime and standby work? Join NY Highways as a Ganger and lead a skilled highways maintenance team delivering vital works across North Yorkshire.
NY Highways is looking for an experienced Ganger to join our Area 5 team based in Skipton. If you've worked in highways, construction, civils or utilities and have experience leading site teams, this could be your next step. Based from our Skipton depot, this role is easily commutable from Keighley, Bradford, Colne, Burnley, Ilkley and surrounding areas.
You'll take the lead on delivering a varied programme of highway maintenance, emergency response and improvement works, ensuring projects are completed safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
Why Join NY Highways?
Join a supportive team, enjoy year-round work, develop new skills and build a long-term career with one of North Yorkshire's leading highways providers.
✅ Starting salary of £34,796 per year with annual pay progression
✅ Permanent, secure employment
✅ 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 29 days after 5 years
✅ Employer pension contributions up to 6%
✅ Training and development opportunities
✅ PPE and workwear provided
✅ Health cash plan and Employee Assistance Programme
✅ Cycle to Work scheme and Vivup employee benefits
✅ Opportunities to earn additional income through winter maintenance and emergency call-outs (where applicable)
What You'll Be Doing
As Ganger, you'll lead a team of highways operatives carrying out a variety of maintenance and improvement works, including:
- Kerbing and footway repairs
- Drainage works
- Highway maintenance projects
- Traffic management operations
- Emergency and reactive repairs
- Winter maintenance activities
You'll make sure work is completed safely, efficiently and to the required standards while supporting and motivating your team on site.
Read the job description here
What We're Looking For
We're interested in hearing from people who have:
- Experience leading operational teams on site
- A highways maintenance qualification (Level 2) or equivalent practical experience
- Good knowledge of health and safety requirements
- Experience planning work and coordinating site activities
- A proactive approach and strong work ethic
- Highways experience preferred, but we welcome applicants from construction, utilities and groundworks backgrounds
Training can be provided for specialist qualifications including:
- Traffic Management, Safe Dig, Emergency First Aid, Banksman, Abrasive Wheels and Manual Handling
Why People Join and Stay
At NY Highways you'll be joining a supportive team that takes pride in maintaining North Yorkshire's roads and communities. We invest in our people, provide ongoing training and create opportunities to progress into supervisory and management positions. Many of our leaders have developed their careers from operational roles within the business.
Interested?
For an informal conversation about the role, contact:
Ashley Benford
07814 932 389
[email protected]
Closing date: Thursday 3rd September 2026
We reserve the right to remove this vacancy in the event of the position being filled before the proposed deadline.
NY Highways is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief.
We will not accept applications from agencies and can only consider applications from individuals with right to work within the UK.
At NY Highways, safety is a core principle. We are dedicated to the health and safety of our employees and the public. To maintain a safe work environment, we enforce a strict substance misuse policy. Employees must report to work fit for duty and free from drugs or alcohol. New employees will undergo mandatory drug and alcohol testing, with random tests conducted throughout employment. Adherence to this policy is essential for upholding our safety standards and ensuring the integrity of our operations.
