Traffic Management Operative

Role overview

Balfour Beatty Living Places is hiring a Traffic Management Operative for its Lincolnshire team. This position suits someone who enjoys hands-on outdoor work and wants to contribute to the safety and day-to-day running of the local highway network.

You will work within a highways team delivering temporary traffic management and highway maintenance support across Lincolnshire. The role involves helping works run safely and smoothly by setting up, maintaining and taking down traffic management arrangements, while also assisting with highway maintenance and winter service activities.

This is a varied field-based role that gives you the chance to work in different locations, support essential public infrastructure and grow your experience with a major infrastructure organisation.

Key duties

• Set up, look after and dismantle temporary traffic management arrangements across the road network.
• Create and manage diversion routes for maintenance and improvement works.
• Support highway maintenance tasks such as repairs, upgrades and winter service operations.
• Work in a manner that protects health, safety and the environment at all times.
• Keep vehicles, plant, tools, equipment and personal protective equipment in good working order.
• Help with site paperwork, vehicle logs and compliance records.
• Work collaboratively with supervisors, colleagues and other teams to deliver work efficiently.
• Communicate professionally with contractors, clients, emergency services and the public.
• Enter and update job details accurately in company systems.
• Share knowledge and good practice to help develop other team members.

Candidate profile

The ideal applicant will be dependable, self-motivated and a strong team player with a positive outlook. You should be comfortable with practical outdoor work, able to keep up in a busy environment and committed to delivering safe, high-quality results.

Essential requirements

• NHSS 12D M1/M2/M5 qualification.
• CPC qualification, where needed for holders of 7.5T vehicles and above.
• A strong focus on safe working methods.
• Good communication skills and the ability to deal professionally with members of the public and clients.
• Basic reading, writing, number and IT skills.
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends and bank holidays when required.
• Comfort working outdoors in all weather conditions.
• A willingness to learn and build new skills.

Preferred experience and qualifications

• Background in highways maintenance.
• NVQ 6159 Winter Maintenance.
• LGV Category C (HGV) licence and Driver Qualification Card (DQC).
• SSSTS qualification.
• NHSS 12D M6 qualification.
• CSCS card.

Benefits

• Smart working arrangements, including staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working where the role allows.
• 25 days of paid annual leave, pro rata.
• Family-friendly policies, including 28 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks of full pay for paternity/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.

About the employer

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to help create better places to live, work and spend time. The business works closely with local communities to understand their needs and supports places where local economies can grow and succeed.

The organisation places a strong emphasis on sustainable working, diversity and social value, using its expertise to deliver positive change for customers and communities.

Diversity, inclusion and reasonable adjustments

Balfour Beatty states that diversity and inclusion are central to a successful and positive workplace. The company works to build a more inclusive culture through its Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

The company is a member of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). It also signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter in 2020 to support long-term action on Black inclusion. Balfour Beatty holds Gold Award status under the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and encourages applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, the company is committed to removing barriers for candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. Applicants who meet the minimum criteria and have a disability are offered an interview. The company also invites feedback on its recruitment process and can be contacted at [email protected].