Overview
ROLE TITLE: Roadworker / General Operative
PURPOSE OF POST:
The role is to work within a professional highway maintenance team, that is required to ensure that the highway network is safe and available 24/7, to the travelling public and business communities travelling throughout South East Wales.
The successful applicant will be required to undertake a range of general highway maintenance works that includes drainage, potholing, fencing, grass cutting and other similar highway works.
The Purpose of this Role:-
The successful applicant will be required to undertake a wide range of general highways duties as indicated within the following list.
To undertake, generally as part of a team, less complex general highway maintenance works including:
- Potholing.
- Cleaning and litter picking.
- Work with bituminous materials.
- Grass cutting.
- Basic masonry and concrete/paving.
- Other similar associated highway work.
- Operate all small plant and tools required to undertake the above duties.
- Carry out basic setting out of work and work to precise levels.
- Work in a safe manner in accordance with H&S legislation and Council policy.
- Operate a wheeled loading shovel.
- Maintain basic work records, undertake basic health & safety assessments, and to record the information electronically if so required.
- To undertake winter maintenance duties and participate in any standby rota arrangements, if so required.
- Duties will involve an element of direction of the work of other operatives.
- Post holders may be required to undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade of the post.
Expectations and Outcomes of this Role:-
You will be expected to undertake highway maintenance operations, as instructed by your supervisor, within the specified constraints, quickly and safely, in a manner that ensures the safety of the team, and that of the travelling public, is maintained at all times.
Your responsibilities are to:-
- To aid our highways operations team achieve the required levels of service that are specified within the MCC Service Improvement Plan.
- To be courteous to all members of the public and ensure that the highway maintenance services provided by us, are efficiently undertaken, and are of a high standard.
- To contact the supervisor should any work practice or equipment be considered to be unsafe in any way.
- Whenever possible provide the supervisor with any observations that may enable or help an existing work practice to be improved.
Heres what we can provide you with:-
- A supportive management team that promotes a service based on performance outcomes.
- The opportunity to develop new highway related skills.
- Training to current national highway industry standards.
- The option to join a personal car ownership scheme.
- The financial benefits of a contributory local government pension scheme.
Person Specification
How will we know if you are the right person for the role? As the successful candidate you will have demonstrated:-
- You must be able to carry out heavy physical manual duties, over prolonged period of time.
- You must be able to work as part of a team.
- You must be able to work with minimal supervision.
- You must be able to take instructions.
- You must be able to operate construction plant, i.e. rollers, breakers, compactors, disc cutters etc.
- You must be willing to undertake training to expand skills base and heath & safety awareness.
- You must have a minimum standard of literacy and be able to maintain basic work records.
- You must be able to deal with staff and the public courteously.
- You must be able to use personal electronic communication equipment.
- You must accept the legal responsibilities for health & safety. This includes the wearing of personal protective equipment when required, and working in a safe manner, which will not endanger yourself or others.
- You must be prepared to wear the sections designated uniform.
- You must demonstrate some understanding of, and agreement with the principles of Equal Opportunities.
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