CIVILS OPERATIVE
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Horncastle, LN |
| Company: | Balfour Beatty Plc |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBUK13981-523316 |
Summary
About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for Highway Maintenance Operative to join our Living Places business unit to work in Lincolnshire.
Role purpose:
Responsible for carrying out a broad range of tasks, including but not limited to drainage work, kerb laying and footway improvements, laying and compacting asphalt & foam base, vegetation clearance, excavating holes and trenches and working with vacuum excavators. - All to a high standard, safely and at a commercial pace.
What you'll be doing
As a Highway Maintenance Operative, your main responsibilities will be as follows:-
• Working within a culture of Zero Harm – embedding the 4 Golden Rules within all aspects of
service delivery;
• Report all observations – Close Calls and Good Practices;
• Compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, specifically H&S;
• Develop and maintain good working relationships across all teams;
• Carry out a broad range of Highway maintenance activities - safety, efficiently and to a high
standard;
• Conduct operational activities against required quality standards;
• Undertake required work, progress against agreed programmes;
• Select and undertake appropriate work methods to ensure the work is completed right first
time;
• Ensure that work activities meet project work requirements;
• Utilise the effective deployment and use of plant, equipment or machinery;
• Organise, control and monitor supplies of materials;
• Evaluate job information / solution and recommend improvements;
• Carry out all reasonable work instructions (Issued through various media including hand held
device, hard copy job file and/or verbal instructions);
• Support the emergency service provision – in and out of hours;
• Flexibility of working overtime or shift patterns to meet business requirements;
• Support the delivery of winter service provision;
• Contribute to the overall profitability of the services provided through effective use of resources;
• Provide customer service in construction;
• Be an ambassador for Balfour Beatty at all times
Who we're looking for
The following qualities and experience are essential:• Driving licence
• Health and Safety first
• Takes pride in work
• Honest / Acts with integrity
• Flexibility of working overtime or shift patterns to meet business requirements The following qualities and experience are desirable:
• EUSR Level 2, 3, 4, & 5 in excavation
• Confined Space Training
• Highway Maintenance, Groundworks or Construction experience
• Class 1 or Class 2 LGV Licence
• NRSWA Training
• CSCS Highway Maintenance
• Driver CPC
• NVQ Winter Service
• Telehandler training • Vacuum excavation experience.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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