Highways Operative

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our UKCS - Balfour Beatty Living Places team as a Highways Operative , you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you’ll be doing

TECHNICAL / OPERATIONS

• Carry out a broad range of Highway maintenance activities - safety, efficiently and to a high standard.
• Conduct operational activities against required quality standards
• Undertake required work progress against agreed programmes
• Select and undertake appropriate work methods to ensure the work is completed right first time
• Ensure that work activities meet project work requirements
• Utilise the effective deployment and use of plant, equipment or machinery
• Organise, control and monitor supplies of materials
• Evaluate job information / solution and recommend improvements
  Who we’re looking for

THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE IS DESIRABLE:

• Carriageway pot hole / patch repairs
• Highway Civils
• Linear Drainage
• Iron works
• Concreting
• Driving
• Gritting roads
• Traffic Management

THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS ARE DESIRABLE:

• Class 2 Licence

• 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