Level 2 Ert Maintenance Operative

CPS is a joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other highways project can offer.

We are looking for a Maintenance expert to work with our team out of our Swanley depot.

You will be part of the team that deliver an efficient service to the M25 DBFO Network by undertaking a wide range of incident response, hazard clearance, network maintenance and other tasks as required by Line Manager.

• Undertake activities, as instructed, with capabilities to ensure that your area of responsibility is maintained. This will include but not exclusive to:
• cyclical maintenance graffiti removal
• carriageway repairs,
• soft estate maintenance (e.g. grassland maintenance)
• litter picking,
• sign maintenance,
• cleansing
• safety fence repairs
• boundary fence repairs
• civil engineering or building tasks of minor remedial nature (eg headwall repair)
• Any other duties allocated by Line Managers.
• Implement Chapter 8 compliant Traffic Management in line with CPS policies, method statements, risk assessments and industry standards.
• Provide accurate and legible written and verbal communication in the form of reports and records as required.
• Use mobile communication/data devices to accurately input data for record purposes to form reports and business records as required
• Undertake routine vehicle checks and maintain accurate and up to date driving records in line with legislation in accordance with CPS procedures and legislation.
• Taking due care of any CPS property including but not limited to tablets, vehicles and radios.
• Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed.
• Check that Traffic Management signs, equipment and materials are carried on vehicles in line with current Maintenance checklist and are in working order, restock and record and report defects as appropriate.
• Participate in Winter Service rota as required
• Attend training courses as required
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm

Qualifications (Essential)

• UK Driving Licence, minimum category C (LGV Class 2)
• CSCS Operative Card
• Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Highways Maintenance
• Traffic Management Foreman (TMF) qualification/Lead Traffic Management Operative (LTMO) OR hold a 360’ excavator competence AND 2B VRS Basic & ABC/CCB

Qualifications (Desirable)

• ROLO Sector Scheme 18
• FISS card
• NHSS12A/B 1 Day qualification
• 12AB For Static Temporary Traffic Management on High Speed Roads and All Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network
• NHSS Sector 2 A/B Fencing qualification
• Unit 518 (formerly unit 13) Winter Service Operations and unit 580 (formerly unit 80) Snowplough/ V blade
• Appropriate lifting qualification
• Vehicle Marshall
• 12AB Impact Protection Vehicle Courses (IPV)
• Strimmer

Experience

• Experience of working in a similar traffic / transport / highways / recovery role are preferred.

Essential Criteria

• Successfully pass the Security check as part of recruitment process
• Successfully pass the annual driving license check
• Successfully pass pre employment Drug & Alcohol test and further test upon request
• Successfully pass the Company’s health screening programme
• Ability to understand and follow Health & Safety briefings and instructions and contribute to Zero Harm
• Physically able to deploy traffic management (eg placing and lifting cones and signage).

Working Arrangements

• Expected to work on a 4-on, 4-off shift pattern, that rotating equally between 4 day shifts an 4 and night shifts
• Day shifts are 05:00 to 17:00 including 2x30 minute breaks, night shifts 17:00 to 05:00 including 2x30 minute breaks
• Reasonable level of travel around M25 network and between depots
• Travel to meetings, training and works sites outside normal operational area
• Expected to participate in out of hours call out rotas e.g. Winter Maintenance

CPS is a joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other highways project can offer.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

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