ERT Operative Level 2

About the role

Balfour Beatty currently has an opportunity for a Highways Emergency Response Team (ERT) Level 2 to be part of the team that manages and improves one of the busiest motorways in Europe – the M25, based in Swanley, Kent
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In this role you will be responsible for assisting in the efficient service delivery of the M25 DBFO Network by undertaking a wide range of incident response, hazard clearance, network maintenance and other tasks as required by Line Manager.

Working arrangements:
The team follows a 4-on, 4-off shift pattern that rotates between day and night shifts. Day shifts are 05:00 to 17:00 with two 30‑minute breaks; night shifts are 17:00 to 05:00 with two 30‑minute breaks. Reasonable travel around the M25 network and to depots, plus occasional travel to meetings, training and works sites outside the normal operational area. Participation in out‑of‑hours call‑out rotas such as winter maintenance.

• Undertake activities as instructed, ensuring your area of responsibility is maintained. This includes cyclical maintenance, carriageway repairs, soft estate maintenance (e.g., grassland maintenance), litter picking, sign maintenance, cleansing, safety fence repairs, boundary fence repairs, civil engineering or building tasks of minor remedial nature (e.g., headwall repair), and any other duties allocated by Line Managers.
• Implement Chapter 8 compliant Traffic Management in line with CPS policies, method statements, risk assessments and industry standards.
• Provide accurate and legible written and verbal communication in the form of reports and records as required.
• Use mobile communication/data devices to accurately input data for record purposes to form reports and business records as required.
• Undertake routine vehicle checks and maintain accurate and up to date driving records in line with legislation in accordance with CPS procedures.
• Take due care of any CPS property including but not limited to tablets, vehicles and radios.
• Raise awareness of issues that may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed.
• Check that Traffic Management signs, equipment and materials are carried on vehicles in line with the current Maintenance checklist and are in working order, restock and record and report defects as appropriate.
• Participate in Winter Service rota as required.
• Attend training courses as required.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.

• UK Driving Licence, minimum category CE (LGV Class
  2)
• Driver Qualification Card
• CSCS Operative Card
• 12AB for Static Temporary Traffic Management on High-Speed Roads and All-Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network.
• Traffic Management Foreman (TMF) qualification/Lead Traffic Management Operative (LTMO)
• 12AB Impact Protection Vehicle Courses (IPV)

• Working on a live motorway or All Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network.
• Experience of working in a similar traffic / transport / highways / recovery role is preferred.

• Successfully pass the Security check as part of recruitment process.
• Successfully pass the annual driving licence check.
• Successfully pass pre‑employment Drug & Alcohol test and further test upon request.
• Successfully pass the Company’s health screening programme.
• Ability to understand and follow Health & Safety briefings and instructions and contribute to Zero Harm.
• Physically able to deploy traffic management (e.g., placing and lifting cones and signage).

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.

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.

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