HGSS Foreman

You will Lead a small number of highways maintenance operational teams, preparing, organising, and leading highways operatives completing routine, non-routine, or larger scale construction, highway works. Motivate and lead colleagues by example, improve standards and compliance with Risk assessments, Health and Safety and technical highways details. Take a lead role in the winter maintenance service delivery and out of hours emergency service for highways operations.,

• Lead small teams responsible for a wide range of highways, grounds and street scene construction and maintenance tasks including winter maintenance tasks.
• Respond when called to emergency situations (unforeseen road conditions, assist emergency services with access etc.) and to work over prolonged periods of time through the night and weekends in adverse weather and road conditions.
• Use of initiative to suggest and implement better work methods, alter the order of work to achieve priorities, apply problem solving and decision making to achieve tasks successfully, to the standards required and in compliance with health & safety regulations.
• Deliver work specific job chats or toolbox talks to a direct operational team.
Undertake risk assessments as necessary and ensure that work colleagues within the site understand and follow all safety measures and procedures as directed by the HGSS Works Supervisor.
• Carry out a winter road maintenance service to include precautionary salting, patrolling, road condition assessments and snow clearance of the Trunk and County roads network, working outside normal hours and often alone in extreme and challenging weather conditions.
  
  Good organisation skills.
• Ability to work in confidence and with minimum supervision.
• The ability to work alone under pressure in adverse conditions and at
unsocial hours.
• Ability to assist across the HTR service with any emergency situation if
  
  The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included, please ensure that you meet ALL of the essential criteria before making an application. Please ensure that you complete ALL sections, your application may not be considered otherwise. Powys County Council welcomes applications in either Welsh or English, an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English. To change the language please click on the Cymraeg icon on the top right hand corner of the screen.