Road Operative (Spooner Row Depot - Attleborough, Norwich)

Reference: TU0000008

Atkins Highway Services, a part of our Highways & Transportation business, operates, maintains and improves the road network. We are currently providing around £160m of combined network management, design and contracting services for our clients, and employing over 1,200 people who deliver frontline operational work as well as design, project management and other vital office-based services.

The Area 6 MAC has been in operation since 2008 and the Spooner Row Depot, near Attleborough, is a key base for carrying out a full range of highway maintenance and improvement activities for the Highway Agency.

We are looking for a person to work as part of a gang of Road Operatives, reporting to the Agent. Highway experience and HGV class 2 licence are essential for the role. The position requires operatives to work a regular day/night shift pattern and to be on weekly standby on a rota basis. Operatives also undergo regular training, so commitment towards successful completion is required of the successful candidate as well as a flexible and willing attitude to working within a team.

The closing date for this vacancy is the 17th May.

Job Details

Requirements

· Willing to work both night and days shifts and unsociable hours as required,

· Be available for out of hours emergency call outs, on a rota basis

· Work in all weathers

· Previous experience of highway maintenance: traffic management, winter maintenance and associated ground works - asphalt laying, kerb laying, barrier repair drainage or excavation

AND/OR UK driving licence - Class 2 HGV

· Ability to complete associated paperwork

· Practical ability to understand use of relevant operational equipment

· Ability to read and interpret safety and ISO requirements and specifications

Desirable

· NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent) in Construction and Highways Maintenance

· Certification to operate plant / equipment

· Knowledge or experience of NRSWA (New roads and street works act)

· Holder of CSCS card

Our business is as much about our behaviours as it is our technical capability and we’re looking for every member of every team to encourage and share the same behaviours:

Taking ownership - being responsible within your role, clear about your part in what we deliver and supportive of others.

Customer focused - building relationships with all contacts, internal and external, client and colleague, and influencing decisions made for the benefit of the client, the partnerships and for Atkins.

Curious - questioning with the view to improvement, to better understand our business, our client requirements and think of new and better ways to deliver.

Commercially aware - to understand how your role impacts on the value we deliver to the client and the revenue we derive for Atkins, always remaining commercially focussed and driving future cost efficiencies.

Self managing - proactive, self driven and always making the best of every situation