We have fantastic opportunities for a permanent Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Area 7 account in Leicester. This role is based on-site at Leicester Forest East (LE33GA).
Working with National Highways, Amey maintains over 700 kilometres of roads across the East Midlands, ensuring the 4.5 million citizens across the East Midlands experience better journeys every day.
We provide maintenance and response across a vast area of some of the UK’s busiest motorways and strategic highways across the east midlands and north of England. As many as 180,000 vehicles a day use certain sections of this vital network.
Our 200+ Amey people provide vital maintenance and respond to incidents to keep the travelling public moving.
The standard hours of work are Monday – Friday , alternating days and nights averaging 45 hours per week.

As part of a two-man crew across a wider team, you will be responsible for:

• All aspects of highway maintenance and response works including acting as first response dealing with incidents, Find and Fix, lamp scouting, routine and cyclic maintenance activities, litter picking, etc.
• Winter maintenance operations
• Attending project and safety briefings as required
• Driving/operating vehicles/plant requiring general and specialist skills including daily checks, reporting and recording any defects.
• Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others within your team to ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public, making use of our close call procedure and following our Zero code targets.
• Carrying out vehicle checks on all vehicles prior to use and at the end of each shift, correctly reporting and recording any defects.
• Keeping records and completing all necessary job packs and paperwork.
• Assessment, deployment, and removal of suitable pedestrian and traffic management
• Liaise with other employees of Amey, sub-contractors, emergency services, the police, the public, clients and customers.
• Covering callout/standby and absences such as annual leave.

• All aspects of highway maintenance and response works including acting as first response dealing with incidents, Find and Fix, lamp scouting, routine and cyclic maintenance activities, litter picking, etc.
• Winter maintenance operations
• Attending project and safety briefings as required
• Driving/operating vehicles/plant requiring general and specialist skills including daily checks, reporting and recording any defects.
• Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others within your team to ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public, making use of our close call procedure and following our Zero code targets.
• Carrying out vehicle checks on all vehicles prior to use and at the end of each shift, correctly reporting and recording any defects.
• Keeping records and completing all necessary job packs and paperwork.
• Assessment, deployment, and removal of suitable pedestrian and traffic management
• Liaise with other employees of Amey, sub-contractors, emergency services, the police, the public, clients and customers.
• Covering callout/standby and absences such as annual leave