Skilled Operative (Civils / Mechanical)

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Skilled Operative (Civils/Mechanical), working across water and water recycling environments on the Anglian Water framework. You'll be part of a supportive team delivering a wide range of mechanical and civil engineering activities to a consistently high standard. We're looking for someone who is committed to safety, quality, and working collaboratively to achieve great results.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Skilled Operative, you'll be working within the team, supporting them in delivering high-quality construction and engineering projects.

Your day to day will include:

-Ensuring compliance with all health, safety, quality, and performance standards on site

-Installing and finishing concrete, formwork, and specialist products to specification

-Operating mechanical plant including excavators, rollers, and dumpers safely and efficiently

-Constructing underground chambers and installing drainage systems to required standards

-Contributing to timely project delivery within budget whilst maintaining water hygiene requirements

Knowledge and experience within the water industry, including an understanding of clean water and wastewater networks, treatment processes, and operational environments

-Experience working on water or wastewater treatment works, with familarity of site operations, safety controls, and working alongside multidisciplinary teams

-A valid CSCS or EUSR card, demonstrating compliance with industry competency and safety standards

-Pipe laying, drainage and deep drainage experience, including trench support, excavation safety, and installation to specification

-Experience in mechanical or civil engineering or construction indsutry, contributing to site based delivrey of infrastructure projects

-Good understanding of legislative Health & Safety requirements, including risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems to work

-Good IT skills to use work-based applications on mobile phones/ tablets

-Full driving licence- travel to various sites

-Confined spaces training, or willingness to complete the required training to meet site & safety requirements, Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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.

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.