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As a Highways Ganger, you'll lead a small maintenance team completing essential carriageway, footway and drainage works across Northamptonshire. This is a hands-on role where you'll ensure your team works safely and efficiently whilst maintaining the highest standards. You'll be part of a supportive environment where your skills and contributions are valued, and where you'll have the opportunity to develop your career with a company that truly invests in its people.
As a Highways Ganger, you'll be working within the highways maintenance team, supporting them in delivering quality maintenance services. Your day to day will include:
Leading and supervising a small team on site, ensuring all work is completed safely and to a high standard
Managing site safety, including risk assessments and completing all associated paperwork
Operating light plant equipment such as compressors, rollers, disc cutters and vibrating plates
Supporting skilled operatives with kerbing, drainage, paving, surfacing and repair works
Undertaking excavation work using hand and powered tools, plus general site maintenance and materials handling
This role of Highways Ganger is great for you if:
You hold a full driving licence
You have previous experience working in highway maintenance or a similar field with relevant certificates
You've completed relevant health and safety training for this level of work
You're a natural team player who enjoys collaborating with colleagues and building strong working relationships
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We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here . As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
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