Level 2 Maintenance Operative – CPS

Connect Plus Services; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000

Job description

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you’ll be doing

Undertake activities, as instructed, with capabilities to ensure that your area of responsibility is maintained. This will include but not exclusive to:

• cyclical maintenance graffiti removal
• soft estate maintenance (e.g. grassland maintenance)
• litter picking
• sign maintenance
• cleansing
• safety fence repairs
• boundary fence repairs
• civil engineering or building tasks of minor remedial nature (e.g. headwall repair)
• Any other duties allocated by Line Managers
• Implement Chapter 8 compliant Traffic Management in line with CPS policies, method statements, risk assessments and industry standards
• Provide accurate and legible written and verbal communication in the form of reports and records as required
• Use mobile communication/data devices to accurately input data for record purposes to form reports and business records as required
• Undertake routine vehicle checks and maintain accurate and up to date driving records in line with legislation in accordance with CPS procedures and legislation
• Taking due care of any CPS property including but not limited to tablets, vehicles and radios
• Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed
• Check that Traffic Management signs, equipment and materials are carried on vehicles in line with current Maintenance checklist and are in working order, restock and record and report defects as appropriate
• Participate in Winter Service rota as required

Who we’re looking for

• UK Driving Licence, minimum category C (LGV Class 2)
• Driver Qualification Card
• CSCS Operative Card
• FISS card
• Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Highways Maintenance
• Traffic Management Foreman (TMF) qualification/Lead Traffic Management Operative (LTMO) OR hold a 360’ excavator competence AND 2B VRS Basic & ABC/CCB
• ROLO Sector Scheme 18
• 12AB For Static Temporary Traffic Management on High Speed Roads and All Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network
• Unit 518 (formerly unit 13) Winter Service Operations and unit 580 (formerly unit 80) Snowplough/ V blade
• Vehicle Marshall
• 12AB Impact Protection Vehicle Courses (IPV)
• Strimmer
• Disc cutter/abrasive wheel

Why work for us

CPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, Atkins Realis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.

Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Note to all internal CPS employees:

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to [e-mail]

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.