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Highways Maintenance Operative
Balfour Beatty
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3.5
Horncastle
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Hybrid work
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Annual leave
Company pension
Paid volunteer time

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About the role

Balfour Beatty is recruiting for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Lincolnshire Highways Maintenance Contract, within our UKCS Living Places business.

This role will support the delivery of highways maintenance services across Lincolnshire, helping to keep roads, footways and public spaces safe, operational and well maintained. You’ll be part of a team carrying out reactive, emergency, routine, cyclical and winter maintenance activities, ensuring all works are completed safely, efficiently and to the required quality standards.

The role will be based on the Lincolnshire contract, covering one of the following depot locations: Sturton, Horncastle, Sleaford or Pode Hole.


What you'll be doing

As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you’ll be responsible for carrying out a wide range of highways maintenance activities, including minor civils, temporary and permanent repairs, emergency attendance, making sites safe and supporting winter service operations.

Your work will include:

  • Carrying out highways maintenance tasks safely, efficiently and to a high standard
  • Supporting reactive, routine, cyclical and emergency works across the contract
  • Completing work instructions issued via handheld devices
  • Undertaking minor civils works, repairs and site safety activities
  • Supporting out-of-hours emergency response where required
  • Assisting with winter service delivery, including gritting operations
  • Using plant, equipment, machinery and materials effectively
  • Helping to ensure work is completed right first time and in line with programme requirements
  • Reporting Close Calls, Good Practices and any health and safety observations
  • Working in line with Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm culture and company procedures
  • Providing a professional, customer-focused service and acting as an ambassador for Balfour Beatty

Who we're looking for

We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their work, puts health and safety first and is committed to delivering a high-quality service for our clients and local communities.

You’ll be a reliable and adaptable team player with a positive attitude, good communication skills and a willingness to learn. You should be comfortable working in a customer-facing environment and able to follow instructions, work accurately and contribute to a safe and professional working culture.

Experience in any of the following areas would be desirable:

  • Carriageway pothole and patch repairs
  • Highways civils
  • Drainage works
  • Ironworks
  • Concreting
  • Kerbing, block laying or slabbing
  • Traffic management
  • Winter maintenance or gritting operations
  • Plant awareness and manual handling

The following qualifications would also be beneficial, although not essential:

  • Class 2 Licence
  • NRSWA
  • First Aid
  • Lantra T1 or T2
  • CSCS
  • Abrasive Wheels
  • Manual Handling
  • Banksman
  • NVQ Winter Service
  • Roller or Dumper
  • CPC
  • Chainsaw
  • Telehandler

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


Job Reference: BBUK20548
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