Winter Maintenance Driver (Fixed Term)

We're looking for Winter drivers to join our Transportation team across Northamptonshire.

Do you want to be a highways hero? Keeping the UK moving during the winter months.

Location: Wellingborough, Brixworth or Towcester, Northamptonshire

Contract: Fixed term zero hour contract to April 2025 - Flexible days / nights - Call out & weather dependant

Salary: £22.50 per hour - Weekly pay + Standby of £17.55 per shift Monday to Friday / £35.09 per shift Saturday and Sunday

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

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our Winter Service team during the 2026/2027 winter season. You'll be working on an on-call basis, driving a gritter on the public highway on our Northamptonshire contracts. With competitive rates of pay including standby pay and enhanced weekend rates, you'll play a vital role in keeping our roads safe during winter conditions. This role offers a wonderful opportunity to develop new skills, with full training provided towards a winter service NVQ qualification.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Gritter Driver, you'll be working within the Winter Service team, supporting them in keeping the highway network safe during winter weather conditions. Your day to day will include:

• Driving a gritter on designated routes across the public highway, using the latest navigation technology
• Working to an on-call rota covering AM or PM shifts, including evenings, early mornings, weekends and bank holidays
• Responding to call-outs within 30 minutes, attending your allocated depot (Brixworth, Wellingborough or Towcester)
• Maintaining accurate records including drivers' hours books and reporting vehicle defects electronically
• Cleaning and maintaining your vehicle upon completion of routes

What are we looking for?

This role of Gritter Driver is great for you if:

•  You can drive and hold a current HGV licence
• Have CPC accreditation
• You're flexible, enthusiastic and able to commit to the on-call rota and shift patterns

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.