Skilled Highways Operative

Skilled Highways Operative

Morrison Water Services

Location: Andover, Hampshire

Job type: Permanent • Full-time

Right across infrastructure, there\’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. With us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop, delivering essential infrastructure services for life with safety first and a client- and customer-centric approach in a friendly, respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Highways, we support the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don’t just build roads and bridges—we’re building a better future and creating lasting social value for the communities in which we work. You’ll join our Highways maintenance team, the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, using the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

What will you be doing?

You’ll bring your expertise in Highways to carry out a variety of essential tasks including:

• Pothole repairs
• Excavation works
• Laying & levelling kerbs, slabs and bitumen macadam
• Drainage and gully installations

We’re looking for people who can operate and maintain plant equipment, install traffic managements and support emergency call outs and winter operations. Do you want to keep communities moving? Do you enjoy manual, outdoor work? Join our Highways team!

What you\’ll bring

• Clean driving licence
• A commitment to Health and Safety—it\’s at the heart of everything we do
• Good communication skills and basic literacy and numeracy
• Ability to carry out manual work outdoors, in all weather conditions
• CSCS Card (or willingness to obtain)
• NRSWA qualification (or willingness to obtain)
• HGV Class C driving licence is highly desirable (or ability to obtain one)

What\’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, including:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24/7
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal with access to thousands 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

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Refer a friend – rewarded for introductions
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Standby / Overtime / Call out
• Personal accident cover

About us

We aim to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values shape our culture and how we work together.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry-recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be part of M Group. Some roles may require 3rd party background checks and drug/alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.