Assistant Highways Operative - Road and Drainage Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £14.17 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Torfaen, Wales |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Nations Recruitment |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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Job Category: Building Services & Maintenance
Job location: Torfaen Council
Hours per week: 37
Start date: Immediate start
Salary: £14.17 per hour
Job Purpose
To assist the Road and Drainage Worker to carry out highway maintenance works in accordance with job tickets, target dates, appropriate Codes of Practice and local service levels, including the functional and inspection elements of the Gully Cleansing Schedule.
Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities
Highway Construction Duties to Include:
1. Ability to assist a Road and Drainage Worker to lay and take up:
Kerbing to line and level.
Block paviours to required level and various bonds.
P.C.C. paving slabs to required level, including raking out and re-pointing.
Concrete to required level to include correct placement of reinforcement and shuttering.
Drainage pipes to the required gradient and trench type.
Granular material, (as foundations for footway carriageway or other structure) to the correct level and gradient, by hand.
Hot and cold bituminous materials in layers (in footway or carriageway) to the correct level and gradient by hand.
Hot and cold bituminous materials to effect both temporary and permanent repairs to footway and carriageway potholes.
2. Ability to assist a Road and Drainage Worker to construct and remove:
Concrete sectional or brickwork inspection chambers to correct level and location.
Walls above and below ground in fair faced blockwork or brickwork to correct level and bond.
Random rubble or dressed ashlar masonry walling to include raking out and repointing where needed.
3. Ability to assist a Road and Drainage Worker to install and remove:
Bollards of various materials.
Fencing of various materials.
Road and information signs to the required standards.
Bus shelter panels and Perspex.
4. Ability to assist in the use of:
Compaction equipment, (vibrating rollers, vibrating plates etc.)
Road breakers, jack hammers, disk cutters, air compressors, pumps etc.
Hand held strimmers and mowers.
5. Ability to assist in carrying out:
Excavation of drainage ditches.
Excavation and cleansing of the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal.
Removal of debris and inspection of culverts and culvert entrances.
Manual or mechanical hedge cutting.
High pressure jetting � manual rodding of sewers and drainage pipes.
Mechanical and manual cleansing of road and yard gullies.
Bus shelter cleansing using proprietary cleaning fluids.
Highway Inspection Duties to Include:
To inspect streets for which works tickets have been issued and to use own knowledge and experience to:
Check for any defects in or near the carriageway, not included on the job ticket which exceed the investigatory level and so meet the repair criteria.
Confirm the requirement, with the Highway inspector or Supervisor, to carry out any additional repairs.
Record the location and extent of the additional works on the job ticket.
Ensure that the Highway Inspector or Supervisor promptly receives any job ticket containing additional works.
Job location: Torfaen Council
Hours per week: 37
Start date: Immediate start
Salary: £14.17 per hour
Job Purpose
To assist the Road and Drainage Worker to carry out highway maintenance works in accordance with job tickets, target dates, appropriate Codes of Practice and local service levels, including the functional and inspection elements of the Gully Cleansing Schedule.
Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities
Highway Construction Duties to Include:
1. Ability to assist a Road and Drainage Worker to lay and take up:
Kerbing to line and level.
Block paviours to required level and various bonds.
P.C.C. paving slabs to required level, including raking out and re-pointing.
Concrete to required level to include correct placement of reinforcement and shuttering.
Drainage pipes to the required gradient and trench type.
Granular material, (as foundations for footway carriageway or other structure) to the correct level and gradient, by hand.
Hot and cold bituminous materials in layers (in footway or carriageway) to the correct level and gradient by hand.
Hot and cold bituminous materials to effect both temporary and permanent repairs to footway and carriageway potholes.
2. Ability to assist a Road and Drainage Worker to construct and remove:
Concrete sectional or brickwork inspection chambers to correct level and location.
Walls above and below ground in fair faced blockwork or brickwork to correct level and bond.
Random rubble or dressed ashlar masonry walling to include raking out and repointing where needed.
3. Ability to assist a Road and Drainage Worker to install and remove:
Bollards of various materials.
Fencing of various materials.
Road and information signs to the required standards.
Bus shelter panels and Perspex.
4. Ability to assist in the use of:
Compaction equipment, (vibrating rollers, vibrating plates etc.)
Road breakers, jack hammers, disk cutters, air compressors, pumps etc.
Hand held strimmers and mowers.
5. Ability to assist in carrying out:
Excavation of drainage ditches.
Excavation and cleansing of the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal.
Removal of debris and inspection of culverts and culvert entrances.
Manual or mechanical hedge cutting.
High pressure jetting � manual rodding of sewers and drainage pipes.
Mechanical and manual cleansing of road and yard gullies.
Bus shelter cleansing using proprietary cleaning fluids.
Highway Inspection Duties to Include:
To inspect streets for which works tickets have been issued and to use own knowledge and experience to:
Check for any defects in or near the carriageway, not included on the job ticket which exceed the investigatory level and so meet the repair criteria.
Confirm the requirement, with the Highway inspector or Supervisor, to carry out any additional repairs.
Record the location and extent of the additional works on the job ticket.
Ensure that the Highway Inspector or Supervisor promptly receives any job ticket containing additional works.