At a Glance
- Tasks: Operate plant and equipment while ensuring safety and efficiency on site.
- Company: Join M Group Highways, the UK's leading highway maintenance contractor.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive pension scheme, online GP service, and retail discounts.
- Other info: Work outdoors, embrace challenges, and enjoy excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Be part of building a better future and creating lasting social value.
- Qualifications: Must have excavator lifting qualification and good communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 25000 - 30000 £ per year.
About The Role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working? At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don’t just build roads and bridges - we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work. You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.
What you’ll be doing:
- Drive/operate plant and equipment where trained, necessary for the day to day tasks set.
- You will be required to read and understand Basic and Intermediate level lift plans and to take instructions from appointed persons and lifting supervisors in the slinging of a wide variety of loads using a wide variety of lifting equipment and giving clear signalling to lifting equipment operators.
- You will have a good understanding of construction health and safety on site and have a clear understanding of the effects of good health and safety practices for yourself and for others working with you and around you.
- You will be punctual and arrive on time, finish your shifts at times allocated by site management and be willing to complete additional duties as and when the site manager requires.
What you'll bring:
- Ability to undertake a high level of manual work and work outdoors in all weathers.
- A commitment to Health and Safety.
- Good communication skills and basic literacy and numeracy.
- Excavator lifting qualification (Essential).
- Wheeled excavator over 10 tonnes (Essential).
- Agriculture tractor license (Desired).
- Clean driving License.
- Highways experience.
- CSCS Card.
Whats in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:
- Matched or contributory pension scheme.
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Employee assistance programme.
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts.
- Life assurance.
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.
- Reward and recognition scheme.
In addition, this role offers; 22 days annual leave plus.
