Ganger

Wellingborough, England, United Kingdom

12/3/2024

We're looking for Gangers to join our Transportation team based in Wellingborough. 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: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Hours: 40 hours per week (Evenings / Nights)

What will you be responsible for?

As a Ganger, you'll be working within the Highways Maintenance team, supporting them in leading a team to carry out a range of complex specialist tasks, referring to technical manuals and making technical judgements in relation to highway and / or construction activities.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Safekeeping and operation of specialist equipment, making sure that equipment is properly maintained and all PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998) sheets are completed correctly
• Giving guidance and training to colleagues, working to Kier, Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality standards, ensuring the economic use of materials
• Managing the works daily, ensuring the site is safe for both the operative and public
• Conducting point of work risk assessments to ensure that the work area is properly protected and safe-working procedures are being maintained
• Planning work with reference to drawings and technical documents as appropriate, using craft/technical skills, carrying out the work to the necessary standard of quality, taking measurements where required and completing any reports
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

This Role Of Ganger Is Great For You If

• Lead teams successfully, work under pressure and deliver in a demanding environment
• Hold an SMSTS/SSSTS or similar qualification.
• Drive and hold a full 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 Benefits

We'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 inclusion

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier