Highways Maintenance Operative

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Somerset team based in Glastonbury.

Location: Glastonbury, Somerset
Hours: 40 hours per week - Monday to Friday

Salary: From £27,976 per annum plus overtime, call out and standby

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll play a vital role in keeping Somerset's highway network running smoothly and safely. Working closely with your Supervisor and team, you'll respond to highway defects, carry out maintenance works, and support emergency response activities. This is a hands-on role where every day brings variety, from reactive repairs to planned improvement schemes, and you'll be making a real difference to your local community.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Somerset team, supporting them in delivering efficient highway services across the network. Your day to day will include:

• Responding to highway defects within designated timescales and updating records using tablet devices
• Installing and removing emergency traffic management signage to keep road users safe
• Carrying out routine maintenance and repairs to the highway network using a variety of plant and equipment
• Delivering minor improvement works to enhance the Somerset network
• Supporting winter maintenance activities and severe weather operations when required

What are we looking for?

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

• You're self-motivated with strong communication and interpersonal skills
• You can work effectively under pressure in a safety-critical environment
• You enjoy working collaboratively as part of a team while being capable of working with minimal supervision
• You hold a Full driving licence
• You're committed to promoting health and safety and treating colleagues and the public with courtesy and respect

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 us. 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. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.