Operative

We are looking for five Operatives to join our Transportation team in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. This contract covers local highways throughout the county, where you will work as part of a team delivering routine maintenance, winter service, emergency response, and reactive repair works.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment. 

Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Hours: Permanent, Fulltime 40 hours per week

Salary: £25,958 – £30,097 per year + benefits

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

What will you be responsible for?

As an Operative, you'll carry out routine maintenance activities on the network.

Your day to day will include:

• Carrying out highway maintenance duties
• Being part of the winter maintenance and emergency callouts
• Assist with ensuring that site and company equipment is always secure
• Carry out daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are maintained in good order
• Contribute to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members to ensure client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner

What are we looking for?

This role of Operative is great if you:

• Have experience in highways maintenance
• 12d Lantra Traffic Management
• LGV driving licence

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