Highways Maintenance Operative

Join Our Team as a Highways Maintenance Operative!

Are you ready to make a difference in your community? We’re on the lookout for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our dedicated team in Towcester, Northamptonshire.

Key Details

Location: Towcester, Northamptonshire
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: £28,000 to £29,800 per annum (depending on experience and qualifications)

Please note: We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship for this role.

Your Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our highways maintenance team, where you’ll play a vital role in delivering essential carriageway, footway, and drainage works across the local area. As a member of our close-knit team, you’ll help improve and maintain the infrastructure that keeps our communities connected and safe.

What Will You Be Responsible For?

As a Highways Operative, you’ll support the maintenance team in delivering high-quality highway repairs and improvements. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Operating light plant equipment such as compressors, rollers, disc cutters, and vibrating plates, while ensuring their daily upkeep.
• Assisting skilled team members with kerbing, drainage, paving, bricklaying, and surfacing works.
• Excavating materials using hand and powered tools safely and efficiently.
• Performing general site duties including sweeping, cleaning, litter picking, and handling materials and equipment.
• Promoting a safe, inclusive, and supportive working environment for all team members.

What Are We Looking For?

This role is perfect for you if:

• You have previous experience in highway maintenance or a similar field.
• You hold relevant certificates and qualifications for this type of work.
• You’re collaborative and enjoy working closely with others to achieve shared goals.
• You’re reliable, trusted, and committed to delivering work safely and to a high standard.
• You have a valid driving license.

At Kier, we believe in finding potential, and transferable skills are always welcome! Even if you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply and have a chat with us.

Rewards and Benefits

We’re proud to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Discover more about our benefits package!

Diversity and Inclusion

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is a top priority for us at Kier. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken, but we know there’s always more to do. Our employees play a key role in shaping our diversity and inclusion initiatives, and their experiences help us improve our policies. As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We can’t wait to see your application and hope you’ll #joinkier!