Highways Operative

Overview

Role: Highways Operative

Contract: 5 months

Rate: GBP12.85 per hour

Responsibilities

To ensure the efficient and effective undertaking of civil engineering activity including highways, bridges, street lighting and countryside works as assigned.

Duties and Responsibilities Specific to this Post:

To undertake the duties of a Highways Operative having the necessary skills to undertake, the maintenance and construction of roads, bridges, drainage, highways electrical and associated works and to ensure a personal high quality of workmanship at all times.

General operational activities may include but are not necessarily restricted to:-

The erection and removal of appropriate temporary traffic and pedestrian safety signs, barriers and any other associated equipment.

Participation in gully cleansing activities including operating the gully tanker (where appropriately licenced).

• Experience of manual activities in a highway or building environment.
• Experience in winter maintenance activities
• Experience of bridge construction
• Experience of hard landscaping
• Supervisory experience
• Health and Safety Certificates
• Cat CE Full UK Driving licence
• First Aid Certificate
• New Roads and Streetworks Act (Operative / Supervisor)
• NVQ 2 or equivalent (Highways related)

To undertake the duties of a Highways Operative in the provision of skilled operational activities including the need to work to precise levels and requirements, in construction work in a number of tasks. Such tasks may include, but are not necessarily restricted to:

Kerbing, flagging, block paving, drainage, walling, fencing and guardrails, steel-fixing, formwork, concreting, erection of timber and metal structures, operating specialist plant and machinery, winter maintenance and undertake maintenance on public rights of way.

The post holder will require a number of the above skills but not necessary all, however they must have the ability to provide specialist skills in at least one of the areas covered in the points above.

To have the ability to set out for work assigned to the post holder.

Undertake skilled operational activities in a highways related discipline

Willing team member

Awareness of Health and Safety

Able to work on own initiative An all round understanding of highways maintenance

Competent in the use of hand tools and equipment

Working to precise levels

Knowledge of specialist plant and equipment

IT skills

To use of a range of hand and powered tools, equipment, small and heavy powered plant and machinery. The post holder may also be required to operate complex powered plant and machinery requiring specialist skills.

LGV / HGV licence holders to participate in winter maintenance on a voluntary basis, this will include out of hours activity where circumstances dictate.

The post holder to participate in emergency response (Emergence Action Team) where required on a voluntary basis. This includes gully cleansing activities, flood and storm response as the business needs dictate and will include out of hours activity.

To participate in shift work as dictated by the business needs on a voluntary basis.

The post holder may be required to transfer to other Services should the business need dictate.

To drive on-site and offsite (if appropriately licensed), non-specialist and specialist vehicles / plant, this may include transporting operatives to and from site.

To undertake appropriate routine checks on vehicles, plant and equipment in line with the Vehicle Operating Policy and associated general maintenance.

To exercise a duty of care in respect of private property and utility mains and services affected by activities and to report any damage caused.

To be aware of and understand the requirements of the Departmental Health & Safety Policy and Procedures in respect of the post holder s status.

In the temporary absence of a Site Supervisor, the post holder will take a lead role on site.

To ensure personal safety, the safety of other employees, sub-contractors and that of the general public.

To follow Health & Safety training and instruction particularly in relation to Personal Risk Assessment. This includes activities such as working on the highway, manual handling, the use of vibratory equipment and working in the vicinity of utility apparatus.

To ensure that appropriate Personal Protective Equipment is worn at all times by the post holder.

To ensure that members of the public and site visitors are treated with respect and in a courteous manner at all times.

To utilise IT devices for the submission of prime documentation and collation of digitally retained information in systems such as but not exclusive to, routemaster , timesheets, vehicle defect books, tachograph cards, procurement logs, fuel cards etc

Qualifications

• New Roads and Streetworks Act (Operative / Supervisor)
• NVQ 2 or equivalent (Highways related)
• Health and Safety Certificates
• Cat CE Full UK Driving licence
• First Aid Certificate
• IT skills

Interested please apply