Site Operative in Crankwood

Location: Crankwood

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Colas

Date Advertised: 2024-06-20

Colas Ltd are a UK subsidiary of the global Colas Group, which operates in over 50 countries worldwide and employs over 55,000 people including over 1500 in the UK across multiple sites.

We are specialists in highways construction and have been involved in large scale UK and international construction projects within the highways, airfields and marine sectors as well as offering highways maintenance services and manufacturing our own innovative surfacing products.

We hold a ‘Gold Investor in People’ award for continuously developing and rewarding our employees, offering excellent career potential.

Purpose of the Role As an Operative you will be based at our Leigh project, where we work on 95% of the UK’s commercial, private and military airfields offering specialist services, relating to maintaining or providing Airfield pavements and small civil engineering projects.

We provide a wide range of specialist maintenance, which varies from Minor repair with specialist products, deep saw cutting, joint sealing, replacement of concrete pavement, replacement of asphalt pavement and Lighting.

We will invest in multi skilled training for this Operative role and provide development opportunities into a team leader.

In return, we asked for a flexible approach to working on night shifts and weekends and general labouring skills.

Main Responsibilities As an Operative, you will ensure all jobs have the appropriate job sheets, method statements and other documentation and arrange necessary tools/equipment/materials/consumables for the job, including appropriate task specific PPE.

The Operatives reports to the Site Management, ensuring any site inductions are undertaken prior to works commencing.

Ideal Candidate We value experience as much as qualifications, however, it is essential the following are held as a minimum: Driving Licence and CSCS card. 

Specialist sawing, drilling and concrete cutting techniques is a definite advantage but not essential if you have general Labouring skills or experience working within a civils environment



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