Highways Maintenance Operative

Kier Transportation is seeking a Highways Maintenance Operative to join their team at the Park Gate Depot in Fareham. This permanent, full-time position requires a valid driving licence and offers a competitive salary ranging from £12.60 to £15.34 per hour. Responsibilities include performing highway maintenance, responding to incidents, and ensuring compliance with health and safety protocols. Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every requirement, as Kier values transferrable skills. The company also emphasises diversity and inclusion, providing various employee benefits, including a matched pension scheme and health services.

Highways Maintenance Operative

We’re looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation team based in Park Gate Depot, Fareham. A full driving licence is essential for this role. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Park Gate Depot, Fareham, Hampshire – Site based

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime, Monday to Friday

Salary: £12.60 to £15.34 p/h

Responsibilities

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you will carry out a variety of highway maintenance duties as instructed on a day-to-day basis to ensure the efficient running of the Area 3 network.

Your day to day will include:

• Carry out highways maintenance duties as instructed including winter maintenance when appropriate
• Respond promptly to incidents on the networks as instructed
• Work in close cooperation with team members and subcontractors, contributing to the maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment for both the network users and work team by ensuring compliance all health and safety procedures
• Contribute to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members to ensure client and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner
• Responsible for notification to Regional Network Hub Control Centre on commencement and end of winter maintenance and occupation of Roadspace for Traffic Management

What are we looking for?

This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great if you have:

• Experience driving HGV Category C
• Experience and knowledge of strict H&S operations and its practical implications
• Asset management awareness – operational level required
• Lantra 12A/B Traffic Management General Operative qualification

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefitsWe’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusionMaking Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Heath and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.