Highways Maintenance Operative

About The Role

Join our Living Placesteam and play a vital role in keeping Warwickshire / Solihull roads, footways, and public spaces safe, accessible, and well-maintained.

As a Highways Maintenance Operative on the HMC16 contract, you will work across various locations throughout Warwickshire / Solihull, carrying out essential specialist operational activities that directly support the county's highway network.

The purpose of this role is to apply your comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience to deliver a wide range of highway construction and maintenance tasks to the highest standards of health, safety, and quality, while working efficiently at a commercial pace.

Your Day-to-day Responsibilities Will Include

• Pothole and patch repairs
• Footway reconstruction
• Bollard repair and installation
• Fencing works
• Strimming and vegetation management
• Laying drainage systems and pavements
• Placing street ironwork (manhole covers, gullies etc.)
• Excavating holes and trenches
  
  

This is a practical, hands-on position ideal for someone who takes pride in quality workmanship, understands the importance of safe working practices, and enjoys contributing to the day-to-day upkeep of the county's infrastructure.

Be part of the team that keeps Warwickshire moving.

What you'll be doing

In this hands-on Highways Maintenance Operative role within our Living Places

team, you'll be at the heart of delivering safe, high-quality highway services across Warwickshire. Your daily work will blend practical construction tasks with a strong focus on safety, efficiency, and customer care.

Here's a Snapshot Of Your Key Responsibilities

Compliance & Safety

• Work within a Zero Harm culture, embedding the 4 Golden Rules in everything you do to prioritise health and safety.
• Report all Close Calls and Good Practices to help drive continuous improvement.
• Strictly follow all statutory requirements and company procedures, especially around health and safety.
  
  

Technical & Operational Delivery

• Perform a wide variety of highway construction and maintenance activities — from pothole repairs and patch works to footway reconstruction, laying drainage and pavements, bollard/fencing installation, strimming, placing street ironwork, and excavating trenches — all completed safely, efficiently, and to a high standard.
• Meet required quality standards and deliver work right first time by selecting the best methods.
• Progress tasks against agreed programmes, deploy plant, equipment, and machinery effectively, and manage materials supplies.

Assess job requirements, recommend improvements, and ensure activities align with project needs.

Service Delivery

• Follow all reasonable instructions issued via your handheld device to keep operations running smoothly.
• Support emergency response provision (including out-of-hours) and contribute to winter service activities such as gritting and snow clearance when required.
• Help drive overall profitability by making effective and resourceful use of time, materials, and equipment.
  
  

Customer Service

• Deliver excellent customer service during construction activities, interacting positively with the public and stakeholders.
• Act as an ambassador for Balfour Beatty at all times, representing our values and commitment to the communities of Warwickshire.
  
  

This varied role keeps you active outdoors, working as part of a dedicated team to maintain and improve the county's vital road network — ensuring roads are safe, reliable, and built to last.

Who we're looking for

Essential Qualities

• Health & Safety focused at all times

Lantra T1 / T2

CPC

Safe Digging qualification

L2 Winter Maintenance

L3 Brick Laying

L2 Construction (or similar NVQ/SVQ)

If you’re a safety-conscious, practical professional with solid hands-on highway experience and a positive, team-oriented approach, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and help keep Warwickshire’s roads safe, reliable and well-maintained.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)

Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave

Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About Us

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Op

en 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com