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SalaryJob title: Ganger
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Salary: C1 £26,421.00 - £28,770.00
Would you like to be part of something bigger and join us in our ambition to become the Best Council, working together as a Team for Leeds. Do your values match ours and do you have something to offer?
Leeds City Council delivers over 500 different services to residents and is dedicated to bringing the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant, and attractive city to the people of Leeds. This is a fantastic time to join us.
Benefits of working with us:
We pride ourselves on offering the best employee experience, with a genuine commitment to keeping our colleagues safe and well at work. You can expect great benefits whilst working for us including:
- A competitive pay progression structure including generous employer pension contributions.
- Flexible career paths with tailored personal and professional development.
- Support for you, your home and your family including personal, and financial support.
- Hybrid working arrangements (subject to needs of the role) and a flexitime system.
For more information about our benefits please see the benefits section of our jobs page. www.leeds.gov.uk/jobs
Introduction to the role of the team
Leeds City Council’s Highways Maintenance Department is fully committed to providing a safe, reliable, and efficient highways maintenance service for all residents and road users within Leeds. Highways Maintenance is much more than potholes… we operate as part of a team to deliver a range of schemes all around Leeds throughout the year.
Your role
To actively participate and lead a small team in the construction and maintenance of highways and associated works. You will be required to hold a NRASWA Certificate and have experience of highway construction techniques including laying tarmac, concerting, and raising ironwork.
What you will bring to the role
The right candidate will lead and work as part of a team to deliver high quality highways maintenance repairs in a safe and efficient manner. Along with leading a team, you will be required to deal with a range of materials, including placing, spreading, and compaction of granular and bituminous materials. Further, you would be required to assist with traffic management, as well as operating small plant.
As part of highways maintenance duties, you will be involved in the statutory winter service operations where appropriate.
Since this a front facing role, you will be required to delivery excellent customer service and answer public queries in a polite manner, using customer care principles. In addition, you will be required to work in partnership with internal and external partners to ensure that a high-quality service is delivered.
Leeds City Council are committed to promoting and living our values of:
- Bring open, honest, and trusted.
- Treating people fairly.
- Spending money wisely.
- Working as a team for Leeds.
- Working with communities.
We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds. Leeds City Council is a Stonewall Top 100 employer 2023, a Mindful employer and a Disability Confident employer.
All new Leeds City Council appointments are made subject to the satisfactory completion of a six-month probationary period.
This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
Job Description
Job Purpose To actively participate and lead a small team in the construction and maintenance of highways and associated works.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and work within a small team delivering quality highway maintenance works in a safe and efficient manner.
- Placing, spreading and compaction of granular and bituminous materials.
- Mixing and placing concrete.
- Supervising and organising excavation operations.
- Location and exposure of under and above ground apparatus utilising drawings and cable detection equipment.
- Read and understand construction drawings.
- Organising and setting out traffic management in accordance with Chapter 8.
- Organising and controlling the work of others.
- Wearing of personal protective equipment.
- Operating of small plant including rollers, vibrating plates, compressors, road saws, strimmers etc.
- Measure completed works and calculate material quantities.
- Laying and construction of highway drainage works.
- Setting out of minor works.
- Completion of time sheets.
- Take part in winter maintenance operations as appropriate.
- Working from any location within the Leeds district.
- Liaison with staff, sub-contractors, public and private bodies and members of the public.
- Comply with Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, Quality Assurance procedures and Health and Safety Regulations.
- Abide by the Council’s Equal Opportunities Policy in the duties of the post and as an employee of the Council.
- Consider the implications of the Council’s Green Strategy Objectives in carrying out the duties of the post as an employee of the Council.
When carrying out the duties of the post, and as an employee of the Council consider the implications of the Council’s:
- Core Values
- Equal Opportunities Policy
- Environmental Policy
Qualifications
- NRASWA Street Works Certificate.
Essential requirements It is essential that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post. Candidates will only be shortlisted for interview if they can demonstrate that they meet all the essential requirements.
- Ability to control and organise a small team of operatives.
- Possession of a current driving licence.
- Ability to communicate with staff and external bodies.
- Ability to complete documentation.
- Ability to carry out heavy manual work.
- Ability to measure completed work and calculate material quantities.
- Knowledge of Health and Safety Regulations, particularly with reference to highway work.
- Knowledge of basic setting out.
- Experience of highway construction techniques including hand laying of tarmac, concreting, raising of ironwork.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Experience of setting out traffic management to legislative requirements.
- Experience of using cable detection equipment.
Essential Behavioural & other Characteristics
- Understand and embrace Leeds City Council Values and Behaviours and codes of conduct.
- Committed to continuous improvement in all areas and work towards delivering the Best City Ambition of Health & Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth and Zero Carbon
- Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council equality and diversity policies.
- Carry out all duties having regard to an employee’s responsibility under Health and Safety Policies.
- Willingness to actively participate in training and development activities.
- Flexible and adaptable to change to assist other services as required commensurate to grade.
- Participate in appraisal, training, and development activities.
- Be aware of and comply with Leeds City Council policies and procedures.
- Be aware of and support difference ensuring equality for all, working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding, equality & diversity.
- Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation, and any form of abuse, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person.
- The Council has adopted a flexibility protocol and the role will be expected to work within these parameters.
Desirable requirements It is desirable that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post. Candidates are not required to meet all the desirable requirements however these may be used to distinguish between candidates.
- NVQ Level II (or equivalent) in a construction related discipline.
