Highways Maintenance Operative

Overview

Maintain and repair highways, drainage, and traffic management in Hereford.

Key Responsibilities

• highway repairs
• drainage maintenance
• traffic management
• risk assessments
• jetting
• defect reporting

Tasks

-Carry out various highway repairs. -Ensure all required paperwork is accurate and regularly submitted to the Drainage Supervisor -Carry out maintenance to countywide drainage features e.g., ditch clearing and grip cutting. -Ensure that all Health & Safety policies and procedures are always adhered to. -Install and maintain traffic management -Carry out point of work risk assessments for all tasks -Ensure the public are always treated respectfully. -Embrace and support a culture of continuous improvement, through effective communication involving open discussions, feedback and exchange of new ideas and best practice. -Report any deficiencies in plant, equipment, or damaged infrastructure. -Carry out the cleansing and jetting of highway drainage systems and road gullies

Requirements

• teamwork
• traffic t1/t2
• full licence
• manual handling
• telehandler
• highways

What You Bring

-Ability to work as part of a team -Traffic Management T1/T2 training qualification -Full Driving License -Manual Handling competency -Telehandler qualification -Experience of working within a Highways Maintenance environment -HGV C licence (Class 2)

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Benefits

-25 days paid annual leave (pro rata) -Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow. -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 Balfour Beatty Plc

-It finances, designs, constructs and maintains roads, rail, energy plants, water systems, buildings and communities. -Active across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Canada, it's known for ventures like HS2, Crossrail and major highway upgrades. -Known for innovation, it uses digital tools, off-site manufacturing and automated plant to enhance safety and efficiency. -An unusual highlight: it pioneered the Automated Cone Laying Machine, boosting roadworker safety on live highways.

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