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SalaryAbout the role:
The successful candidate will play a Lead role across a small number of highways maintenance operational teams, preparing, organising, and leading highways operatives completing routine, non-routine, or larger scale construction, highway works. Motivate and lead colleagues by example, improve standards and compliance with Risk assessments, Health and Safety and technical highways details. Take a lead role in the winter maintenance service delivery and out of hours emergency service for highways operations.
About you:
> The Candidate must be a good communicator.
> Be Enthusiastic and motivated to achieve goals.
> Have knowledge and experience around planning and implementing highways works.
> Be a good communicator and able to pass on direction to members of the team
> Be willing to mentor and advise inexperienced or junior members of the team.
What you will do:
- Lead small teams responsible for a wide range of highways, grounds and street scene construction and maintenance tasks including winter maintenance tasks.
- Respond when called to emergency situations (unforeseen road conditions, assist emergency services with access etc.) and to work over prolonged periods of time through the night and weekends in adverse weather and road conditions.
- Use of initiative to suggest and implement better work methods, alter the order of work to achieve priorities, apply problem solving and decision making to achieve tasks successfully, to the standards required and in compliance with health & safety regulations.
- Deliver work specific job chats or toolbox talks to a direct operational team. Undertake risk assessments as necessary and ensure that work colleagues within the site understand and follow all safety measures and procedures as directed by the HGSS Works Supervisor.
- Carry out a winter road maintenance service to include precautionary salting, patrolling, road condition assessments and snow clearance of the Trunk and County roads network, working outside normal hours and often alone in extreme and challenging weather conditions.
Contact details:
Clive Jones Highways Operations Manager North Powys.
07786 703180
Paul Barr Highways Works Supervisor Newtown Depot
07789 720355
OOH Standby Payments for Winter Maintenance Gritting, Winter Trunk Road Emergency standby & Summer Standby, can average 14 weeks over year @ £180 per week available plus can average between 120 -140hrs Overtime for call outs at 1.5 x hourly rate.
