Senior Community Operative

Job description

The Vacancy

Join Highways at an exciting transformational period, a critical role supporting the aspirations and goals of North Lincolnshire Council this role is pivotal in the delivery of an efficient, connected network, improving the lives of residents and visitors to North Lincolnshire. Serve the community and take pride in the area by providing support to large and specialist teams (schemes)
for cyclic, routine, general maintenance and construction works in street cleansing, highways,
grounds maintenance and winter service work.

Main duties include but not exhaustive:

• Some line management responsibility, which will involve allocating, directing and checking the quality of work for assigned team members.
• Be able to establish and supervise the day to day workload of multi-skilled teams to ensure they are deployed in an efficient and effective manner on productive work and to ensure safe systems of work at all times.
• Carry out risk assessments of all works prior to the deployment of the multi-skilled teams.
• Liaise with line managers on forward plans of necessary re-active and planned routine maintenance works and to provide sufficient information to allow for the efficient deployment of resources.
• Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation in all aspects of work undertaken so that your own safety, and the safety of working colleagues and occasional visitors, is safeguarded so far as is reasonably practical.
• Complete appropriate records e.g. ad hoc tickets, inspection reports, call logs etc , in a legible and accurate manner for "logging" and charging purposes.
• Completion of site specific pre work risk assessment, communicate contents to other site staff including those who are on lower grades.
• Deliver high standard, customer focused services in order to acquire and retain contracts and ad hoc works in the future.
• Certification and completion of all timesheets for self and subordinate staff, plant sheets, material returns.

Why join us?

At North Lincolnshire Council, you'll be part of a team that takes real pride in maintaining some of the area's most valued parks, open spaces and community facilities.

We offer:

• A varied and rewarding outdoor role.
• Opportunities to develop your skills and progress your career.
• Ongoing training and professional development.
• A supportive team environment.
• The opportunity to make a visible difference to local communities every day.

Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

For more information contact Barry Case @ [email protected]

Candidates must be able to evidence their right to work in the UK. Please note the council does not hold a sponsor licence to sponsor people to work in the UK.

The Council

We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values - equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility - in all that we do.

The Benefits

Staff discounts

Annual leave

Access to pensions

Salary sacrifice
schemes

Free car parking

Eye test and glasses reimbursements