We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Fareham, Hampshire. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive hourly rate and annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands. We also offer 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and more. 

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference to the high-speed road network by connecting people.

Location: Fareham, Hampshire

Business Area: Transportation

Contract: Permanent, full time 39 hours per week

Salary: £12.60 - £15.34 per hour + benefits

Responsibilities

As a Highways Maintenance Operative - HGV, you'll be working within the Transportation Team, supporting them in ensuring the efficient running of the Area 3 network.

Your day to day will include:

• Carry out highways maintenance duties as instructed. Including winter maintenance when appropriate
• Respond promptly to incidents on the network as instructed
• Contribute to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members to ensure client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
• Carry out daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are maintained in good order
• Responsible for notification to Regional Network Hub Control Centre on commencement and end of winter maintenance and occupation of Roadspace for Traffic Management

What are we looking for?

This role of Highways Maintenance Operative - HGV is great for you if have:

• Ability to work using own initiative and as part of a team
• Valid UK Driving Licence
• Experience and knowledge of strict H&S operations and its practical implications
• Ability to work night shifts (payment uplift in place)

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable 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. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for use. 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.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier