Highways Maintenance Supervisor

We're looking for a Supervisor to join our Shropshire team on a 3 month fixed term contract based at our Longden Road depot.

Location: Shropshire - Longden Road, SY3 9EL
Hours: 40 hours per week - site based

Contract: 3 Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £37,796 per annum

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

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a key role within our highways maintenance team. As a Supervisor, you'll be responsible for overseeing site teams across the Shropshire region, ensuring that reactive, routine, and minor works and schemes are delivered safely, on budget, and to agreed timescales. You'll play a vital role in planning, health and safety management, and supporting your team's development. The successful candidate will need to be available for winter service and emergency out-of-hours work when and if required.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Supervisor, you'll be working within the highways maintenance team, supporting them in delivering high-quality works safely and efficiently. Your day to day will include:

• Planning and coordinating programmes of work, ensuring delivery to time and budget
• Conducting regular safety site inspections and promoting best practice across all sites
• Managing and developing your site team, supporting their career progression and competency development
• Ensuring all health and safety standards are maintained, including compliance with CDM regulations and traffic management requirements
• Collaborating with supply chain partners to improve standards and celebrate team successes

What are we looking for?

This role of Supervisor is great for you if:

• You hold a Site Safety Management certificate (SMSTS or SSSTS)
• You have experience in highways maintenance at a supervisory level
• You hold an NRSWA Supervisor card and Full driving licence
• You're confident with planning, managing teams, and maintaining safety standards
• You're comfortable using digital tools and Excel to support your work

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.