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About The Role
As a General Operative on the Buckinghamshire Highways contract, you’ll be based at Amersham Depot and join the revenue team delivering essential maintenance across the county’s road network. Your primary purpose is to carry out reactive, emergency, and winter maintenance activities, alongside routine, cyclical, and minor civils works — ensuring roads, footways, and verges remain safe and reliable for local communities.
Key Aspects Of The Role Include
- Responding swiftly to incidents and seasonal demands
- Completing temporary and permanent repairs, site safety measures, and general highways tasks
- Working safely and to high quality standards every time, drawing on your hands‑on knowledge and experience
This varied, outdoor role offers the chance to make a direct impact on Buckinghamshire’s infrastructure while being part of a dedicated team focused on safety, responsiveness, and excellence.
If you’re reliable and ready for hands‑on highway work that keeps the county moving, this is your opportunity to contribute meaningfully every day.
Responsibilities
As a General Operative, you’ll play a key hands‑on role in keeping our highways safe, functional, and well‑maintained. Your day‑to‑day responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out a wide range of highway maintenance activities safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards — including patching, drainage works, signage, barriers, vegetation control, and other essential tasks.
- Working within our Zero Harm culture, strictly following the 4 Golden Rules in everything you do, and promptly reporting all Close Calls, Good Practices, and any observations to support continuous improvement.
- Complying fully with all statutory requirements, health & safety procedures, and company policies across every aspect of your work.
- Delivering operational activities to required quality standards, progressing work against agreed programmes, and selecting the right methods to ensure tasks are completed right first time.
- Making effective use of plant, equipment, and machinery, while evaluating job information to recommend practical improvements where possible.
- Responding to all reasonable instructions via your handheld device and supporting our emergency response provision (in and out of hours) to keep roads safe during incidents.
- Contributing to winter service operations, including gritting, snow clearance, and other seasonal activities as required (in and out of hours).
- Helping drive overall service profitability through careful and effective use of resources.
- Delivering excellent customer service by acting as an ambassador for Balfour Beatty at all times — communicating clearly with customers about works that may impact them, remaining courteous in public areas, and ensuring a positive experience for road users and stakeholders.
This role is varied, physical, and rewarding — you’ll be out on the network making a real difference to road safety and community infrastructure every day.
Essential Qualities We Look For
- A strong commitment to Health and Safety in everything you do
- Adaptability and flexibility to handle changing situations and demands
- Excellent teamwork, good communication skills, and a positive attitude
- Reliability, strong time‑keeping, and professional conduct at all times
- Pride in your work with a focus on quality, accuracy, and getting it right first time
- Honesty, integrity, and willingness to share knowledge with the team
- Customer‑facing approach and a genuine desire to continually improve performance and learn new skills
Desirable Experience
- Practical experience in highway or civils work, including:
- Patch/pothole repairs, drainage, concreting, kerbing, block laying, slabbing, finishing, raking
- Road signs, gritting roads, and general driving
Essential Qualifications (training Provided Where Needed)
- NRSWA, First Aid, Lantra T1 & T2, CSCS, Abrasive Wheel, Manual Handling, Banksman
Desirable Qualifications
- L2 Winter Maintenance
- Driving licences (Class 1, Class 2, CPC)
- Plant operation tickets (Roller/Dumper, Telescopic Handler/Telehandler, 180/360 Excavator)
- Additional specialist tickets (Safe Digging, Chainsaw, Confined Spaces, Deep Excavation)
We offer ongoing training, career progression, and a collaborative culture where your reliability, positivity, and pride in the job really make a difference. If this sounds like you, come help us deliver safe, high‑quality infrastructure every day.
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.
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.
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