HGSS Foreman

Lead role across a small number of highways maintenance operational teams, preparing, organising, and leading highways opertives 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. Considerable experience in one or more of highways / grounds / street scene maintenance.
• An understanding of the range of equipment used by the teams and able to provide advice on best practice.
• Experience of overseeing, planning and leading on operational work with a number of small teams which can be based at different locations.
• Knowledge and experience of winter maintenance operations, plant and
• Equipment and the ability to make qualified decisions on winter maintenance operations.
• Good knowledge of geographical areas and characteristics.
• An understanding of highways maintenance and the standards, construction details and specifications for the work areas.