About the role
Balfour Beatty's UKCS Living Places business has an exciting opportunity for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our team in Lincolnshire.
This is a hands-on role where you'll help maintain and improve the local highway network, ensuring roads, structures and associated assets remain safe, reliable and fit for purpose. Working as part of a dedicated operational team, you'll carry out a variety of maintenance activities that support the communities and businesses that rely on the county's infrastructure every day.
You'll play an important part in delivering high-quality services while maintaining the highest standards of safety, workmanship and customer service.
What you'll be doing
As a Highways Maintenance Operative, your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out a broad range of highway maintenance activities safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
- Undertaking drainage works, kerb laying, asphalt laying and compaction, excavation activities and vegetation clearance.
- Completing general construction and grounds maintenance tasks, including brickwork, fencing repairs and other associated works.
- Operating plant, machinery and equipment in a safe and effective manner.
- Ensuring work is completed to the required quality standards and right first time.
- Maintaining compliance with all health, safety and environmental requirements.
- Using materials, tools and resources efficiently to support effective service delivery.
- Supporting emergency response activities and out-of-hours services when required.
- Building positive working relationships with colleagues, customers and stakeholders.
- Identifying opportunities for improvement and contributing to the successful delivery of maintenance services.
Who we're looking for
We're looking for individuals who take pride in their work, put safety first and enjoy working as part of a team in a fast-paced outdoor environment.
You'll have:
- A full UK driving licence.
- A strong commitment to health and safety.
- Experience within highways maintenance, groundworks, construction, civil engineering or a similar operational environment.
- A positive attitude, strong work ethic and willingness to learn.
- The flexibility to work overtime or shift patterns when required.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
- A reliable, honest and professional approach to work.
It would be advantageous if you also hold any of the following:
- EUSR Excavation qualifications.
- NRSWA accreditation.
- CSCS Highway Maintenance certification.
- Confined Space training.
- LGV Class 1 or Class 2 licence.
- Driver CPC qualification.
- Winter maintenance experience or qualifications.
- Telehandler training.
- Vacuum excavation experience.
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: BBUK19908
