Highways Maintenance Operative

Highways Maintenance Operative

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our team based in Towcester, Northamptonshire.

Location: Towcester, Northamptonshire Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary: £28,000 to £29,800 per annum depending on experience and qualifications

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our highways maintenance team, where you'll play a vital role in delivering essential carriageway, footway and drainage works across the local area. As part of a close-knit team, you'll contribute to improving and maintaining the infrastructure that keeps our communities connected and safe.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Highways Operative, you'll be working within the maintenance team, supporting them in delivering high-quality highway repairs and improvements. Your day to day will include:

• Operating light plant equipment including compressors, rollers, disc cutters and vibrating plates, whilst maintaining their daily upkeep
• Assisting skilled team members with kerbing, drainage, paving, bricklaying and surfacing works
• Excavating materials using hand and powered tools safely and efficiently
• General site duties including sweeping, cleaning, litter picking and handling materials and equipment
• Promoting a safe, inclusive and supportive working environment for all team members

What are we looking for?

This role of Highways Operative is great for you if:

• You have previous experience working in highway maintenance or a similar field
• You hold relevant certificates and qualifications for this type of work
• You're collaborative and enjoy working closely with others to achieve shared goals
• You're reliable, trusted and committed to delivering work safely and to a high standard
• You have a valid driving license

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. 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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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Location: Towcester

Vacancy ID: 11335

Background check: None

Closing date: 30 Oct 2026

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Full Time

Flexible working: No

Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.

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