Highways Maintenance Operative

Company: Kanz
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Location: Bridgwater
Job Description:

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Company: Kier

Role: Highways Maintenance Operative

Location: Bridgwater, Somerset

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time

Salary: £27,976 to £29,000 depending on experience, plus call out and overtime.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the promotion of customer care by working closely with team members, ensuring clients and network users are dealt with in a polite and courteous manner.
  • Respond to defects on the highway within designated timescales, updating relevant parties through tablet devices (applications), including the installation and removal of emergency traffic management signage.
  • Use tablet devices at incidents and emergency repairs on the network and, where required, complete any required record sheets, utilising the tablet devices in providing accurate records of works on the network.
  • Conduct daily defect reports on vehicles and ensure vehicles are cleaned and maintained in good order.

Qualifications

  • Drive and hold a full driving licence (LGV training will be provided once you meet the necessary business targets).
  • Can work on your own initiative and as part of a team, communicating faults or issues.

Benefits

We are proud to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

We are proud of our pension scheme, competitive annual holiday entitlement, and more.

Diversity & Inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. Our employees shape Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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Posted: June 4th, 2026