General Operative
| Posting date: | 02 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 October 2025 |
| Location: | Greater London, W2 6NB |
| Company: | FM Conway |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG1531-PW1411757WesGO |
Summary
FM Conway are currently seeking a General Operative to join our Asset Management team within our Structures Division. As our General Operative, you will be responsible for carrying out a range of construction activities, ensuring all works are delivered with care, attention to safety, and in line with RAMS and company procedures. Working as part of a site team, you will also help to maintain good housekeeping, minimise waste, and ensure that all plant and equipment is used safely and correctly. This is a full-time permanent position based from our Paddington Office, working on our prestigious Westminster contract.
The duties of the General Operative role will include:
- Carrying out all works with care and with attention to safety, using the appropriate tools, safeguards, and PPE
- Reporting any incidents, accidents or points of concern to your line manager or the Site Management without delay
- Ensuring that all materials are used correctly, and that waste is minimised by good housekeeping employing the briefed work methodology
- Ensuring that company and externally hired plant is in working order before use and to ensure that it is used correctly by competently trained individuals
What skills and experience do you need?
As a General Operative, you will need an understanding and ability to support with various skills such as pavement construction, drainage, deep drainage, utilities and hard landscaping. You will also have a good level of experience in construction having carried out various skills such as groundworks, structural concrete or bricklaying. Understanding of health and safety as well as industry disciplines is essential as well as holding a CSCS card, medium / high risk confined space ticket and a full UK driving licence.
What benefits will you receive?
As our General Operative, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, company pension opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Structures Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
FM Conway works across the full spectrum of London and the South East’s highways structures and broader infrastructure needs. We have a strong track record of delivering refurbishments and improvements, heritage maintenance and structural repairs. We have worked on a range of iconic and impressive projects including Hammersmith Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Rochester Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Greenford Flyover the Marble Arch Still Water Illumination project. FM Conway provide our clients and stakeholders with a full range of structural engineering services, utilising innovative and sustainable solutions to maximise value and ensure the successful delivery of projects to the highest quality design.
So, if you would like to Join our Family as our General Operative then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 02/11/2024
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
The duties of the General Operative role will include:
- Carrying out all works with care and with attention to safety, using the appropriate tools, safeguards, and PPE
- Reporting any incidents, accidents or points of concern to your line manager or the Site Management without delay
- Ensuring that all materials are used correctly, and that waste is minimised by good housekeeping employing the briefed work methodology
- Ensuring that company and externally hired plant is in working order before use and to ensure that it is used correctly by competently trained individuals
What skills and experience do you need?
As a General Operative, you will need an understanding and ability to support with various skills such as pavement construction, drainage, deep drainage, utilities and hard landscaping. You will also have a good level of experience in construction having carried out various skills such as groundworks, structural concrete or bricklaying. Understanding of health and safety as well as industry disciplines is essential as well as holding a CSCS card, medium / high risk confined space ticket and a full UK driving licence.
What benefits will you receive?
As our General Operative, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, company pension opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Structures Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
FM Conway works across the full spectrum of London and the South East’s highways structures and broader infrastructure needs. We have a strong track record of delivering refurbishments and improvements, heritage maintenance and structural repairs. We have worked on a range of iconic and impressive projects including Hammersmith Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Rochester Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Greenford Flyover the Marble Arch Still Water Illumination project. FM Conway provide our clients and stakeholders with a full range of structural engineering services, utilising innovative and sustainable solutions to maximise value and ensure the successful delivery of projects to the highest quality design.
So, if you would like to Join our Family as our General Operative then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 02/11/2024
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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