About the role
About the role:
Winter Maintenance Driver (Zero Hours)
Location: Buckinghamshire
Contract Type: Zero Hours
Join Balfour Beatty's Winter Maintenance Team and Help Keep Buckinghamshire Moving
Are you a reliable, safety-conscious driver looking for a role where your work makes a real difference? Balfour Beatty is recruiting Winter Maintenance Drivers to play a crucial role in keeping Buckinghamshire's roads safe and accessible throughout the winter months.
As part of our dedicated winter operations team, you'll be at the forefront of responding to challenging weather conditions, carrying out gritting and snow clearance activities that help protect local communities and keep people moving.
This is a rewarding opportunity to be part of an experienced team delivering an essential public service when it's needed most.
Working in winter maintenance offers a unique and varied role, where no two shifts are the same. You'll operate specialist vehicles, work alongside skilled colleagues, and take pride in helping to maintain a safe road network during adverse weather conditions.
To support our winter service, you'll participate in a standby rota, with availability required every other week as a minimum throughout the winter season. Due to the nature of the work, shifts can take place during evenings, nights, early mornings and weekends, ensuring we're ready to respond whenever conditions demand.
If you're a professional driver who enjoys working as part of a close-knit team, values safety, and takes pride in delivering a vital service to the public, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
- Carrying out daily vehicle inspections and reporting any defects.
- Driving winter maintenance gritters along designated routes.
- Operating gritting vehicles to required quality standards.
- Supporting snow clearance activities when required.
- Ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently and right first time.
- Following all depot and fleet movement procedures.
- Reporting close calls, good practices and safety observations.
- Complying with driver hours regulations and company procedures.
- Promoting Balfour Beatty's Zero Harm culture at all times.
- Acting as a professional ambassador for Balfour Beatty within the local community.
Who we're looking for
Essential Requirements:
- Class 2 (Category C) Driving Licence
- Driver CPC Qualification
- Digital Tachograph Card
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK20672
