Level 2 Maintenance Operative

Or please email us your CV to: recruitment@connectplusm25.co.uk

About the role

CPS is a joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRealis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25, the busiest section of motorway in Europe, requiring careful and efficient planning of work to deliver over 100m of annual investment in 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 provide experience and challenges that no other highways project can offer.

We are looking for a Maintenance expert to work with our team out of our Swanley depot.

You will be part of the team that delivers an efficient service to the M25 DBFO Network by undertaking a wide range of incident response, hazard clearance, network maintenance, and other tasks as required by the Line Manager.

What you’ll be doing

• Undertake activities, as instructed, to ensure that your area of responsibility is maintained. This includes but is not limited to:
  • Cyclical maintenance graffiti removal
  • Carriageway repairs
  • 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.
• Take 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 the current Maintenance checklist and are in working order; restock and record and report defects as appropriate.
• Participate in Winter Service rota as required.
• Attend training courses as required.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CSUK's Sustainability activities.

Who we’re looking for

Qualifications (Essential)

• 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

Qualifications (Desirable)

• 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

Experience

• Experience of working in a similar traffic/transport/highways/recovery role is preferred.
• Successfully pass the Security check as part of the recruitment process.
• Successfully pass the annual driving license check.
• Successfully pass pre-employment Drug & Alcohol test and further tests upon request.
• Successfully pass the Company’s health screening programme.
• Ability to understand and follow Health & Safety briefings and instructions and contribute to Zero Harm.
• Physically able to deploy traffic management (e.g. placing and lifting cones and signage).

Working arrangements

• Expected to work Mon-Fri, day and night shifts on a rotating basis with 3 weeks of night shifts to 1 week of day shifts.
• Day shifts are 07:00 to 16:00 with a 45-minute break; night shifts are 20:30 to 05:30.
• Reasonable level of travel around M25 network and between depots.

Why work for us

CPS is a joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRealis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25, the busiest section of motorway in Europe, requiring careful and efficient planning of work to deliver over 100m of annual investment in 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 provide experience and challenges that no other highways project can offer.

About us

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.

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 encourages 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.