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Kier Group
Highways Maintenance Operative
Towcester, Northamptonshire
- Hours
- Full Time
- Posted
- 1 day ago
- Salary
- Competitive
- Recruiter
- Kier Group
- Closes
- 23 Oct 2025
- Course
- No
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Recruiter Type
- Direct Employer
Description
We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Transportation Team in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, pension scheme, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, and even more.
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Towcester, Northamptonshire
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 07:00 to 15:45
What will you be responsible for?
As a Highways Maintenance Operative, you'll be working within the Kier Highways team, supporting them in delivering essential maintenance and improvement works across the local road network.
Your day to day will include:
Operating light plant machinery such as compressors, rollers, and disc cutters, including daily maintenance checksAssisting skilled operatives with kerbing, drainage, paving, surfacing, and repair worksExcavating soil, rock, asphalt, and concrete using hand and powered toolsPerforming general site duties including sweeping, cleaning, litter picking, and handling materials What are we looking for?
This role of Highways Maintenance Operative is great for you if:
Experience in highway maintenance or similar field.Valid CSCS card and relevant SHE training.Full UK driving licence. 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.
Rewards and benefitsWe're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusionMaking 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
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Heath and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.
Ad ID: 5417198727
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