Highways Operative

Location: Nantwich, CW5 6BJ

Full Time: 40 hours per week

We are working alongside a market leader in the highways industry to recruit a Highways Operative.

The main purpose of the role is to assist, generally as part of a team, in delivering highway maintenance and construction works.

Essex Highways is responsible for managing and maintaining one of the largest highway networks in the country: 5,000 miles of roads and around 5,000 miles of footways. Essex Highways is a delivery partnership between Essex County Council and our contractual partner.

The Role

• Work as part of the highway maintenance operational team.
• Carry out a variety of skilled tasks including carriageway, footway, drainage maintenance, soft estate maintenance works (e.g. grass cutting, strimming etc) and minor civils works.
• Ensure that all works are completed safely.
• Receive daily briefings and understand risks and control measures required for the task.
• Complete daily record sheets and associated documents
• Ensure that works are completed to the required standard and within required timescales
• Report safety concerns
• Ensure waste is dealt with in the appropriate manner
• Participate in out-of-hours winter maintenance and emergency response activities on a rota basis.

About You

• Highway’s maintenance experience.
• A current, valid driving licence is essential .
• Able to carry out basic safety, quality and environmental audits and risk assessments.
• Able to take responsibility for traffic management, 12 A/B Traffic Management.
• Demonstrable awareness of environmental aspects and impacts and waste management.
• Understands and behaves safely, encourages others to behave safely and helps develop new safety processes.
• Ability to deal effectively with peers, client representatives and the general public.
• Demands and delivers high standards, has a passion for customer service that challenges poor service delivery.
• Take personal responsibility for work produced, makes decisions and provides detailed solutions when escalating decisions upwards.
• Able to give clear instruction, provide mentoring for apprentices and trainees as required.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with customers both internally and externally.