Yard Operative

Job Summary by the careerbalance.co.uk Team:

99Job Description:

We’re looking for Yard Operative to join our Transportation team based in Wellingborough. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans 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: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Contract: Permanent, full time

 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Yard Operative, you’ll be working within the Maintenance team, supporting them in the management of the depot.

Your day to day will include:

• Accepting and processing deliveries
• Managing salt deliveries, undertaking treatment of emergency spillages or salting during, maintaining fuel stocks and distribution, loading vehicles & skips
• Policing of health & safety and PPE requirements within the depot, accounting of stock levels including issuing of materials, PPE etc.
• Handling pool vehicles as directed
• Undertaking depot inspections, cleaning the depot when required and monitoring of environmental issues within the depot

 

What are we looking for?

This role of Yard Operative is great for you if:

• You can show a willingness to develop and learn within a highway’s maintenance environment, working outside and using equipment / hand tools in a safe manner
• Drive and hold a full driving licence with HGV class 2 entitlements
• Are able to use Microsoft Word, Excel and emails to communicate across different teams

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 benefits
We’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 inclusion
Making 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.

 

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

 

 

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