Highways Operative

About The Role

Highways Maintenance Operative

Southampton

Balfour Beatty has a fantastic opportunity for a Highways Maintenance Operative to join our team in Southampton.

This is a hands‑on, outdoor role supporting day‑to‑day maintenance, emergency response and winter service across Southampton highway network. If you’re reliable, flexible and happy to put the hours in, we want to hear from you.

• Monday to Friday
• Hours:
  
  7:30am – 4:30pm
• Overtime available
• Emergency works rota: 1 in 4 weeks
• Winter maintenance rota (October–April): 1 in 2 weeks

• Carrying out a wide range of highways maintenance works including reactive, cyclical and emergency repairs
• Making sites safe and completing permanent and temporary fixes
• Supporting emergency response and winter service operations
• Working outdoors in all conditions as part of a close‑knit operational team
• Using plant, tools and materials efficiently and safely
• Completing works via handheld devices and to required quality standards
• Always working in line with Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm safety culture

• Experience working outdoors – highways experience preferred
• Streetworks (NRSWA) – preferable
• Full UK driving licence – essential
• The right attitude – flexible, reliable and willing to work additional hours
• A strong safety mindset and team‑focused approach

• HGV training will be provided for candidates who don’t already hold the qualification
• Opportunity to gain further highways and safety‑related experience and tickets

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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. 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…

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long‑term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabil

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidate recruit