General Operative

Benefits

• 35 days per year (including bank holidays)
• A tailored, competitive salary 
• Company pension scheme 
• Life Assurance Scheme
• 1 day per year to volunteer with a charity of your choice (fully paid!) and fund-matching up to £200 for charitable events.
• Make a Material Difference Awards
• Employee Assistance Programme providing a wide range of health and wellbeing support 24/7 
• Enhanced parental leave policy
• Option to participate in our ShareSave scheme.
• Access to our employee benefits platform, giving you discounts on a wide variety of high street shops and brands.
• Broad learning opportunities, training, and career progression pathways.

Key Responsibilities

• Training in all aspects of material testing to relevant standards
• Training on weighbridge operations
• Training on loading shovel
• Training on asphalt plant operation
• To ensure environmental standards are maintained and prevent spillages
• To ensure product quality is maintained
• To assist with repairs during breakdowns and complete preventative maintenance.
• To comply with health and safety procedures and policies to ensure the role is carried out without risk to self and others.
• To carry out any other reasonable duties as required.

Skills & Expertise

Experience / Qualifications

• Experience working in a quarry or construction materials manufacturing environment
• Experience operating plant or machinery in construction/quarry or similar industry
• Experience and competency to carryout routine and planned basic maintenance
• Ability to complete housekeeping/cleaning around plant

Personal Skills

• Ability to work closely within a team
• Independence - ability to work on own convictions
• Adaptable to changing environments
• Acceptability - non abrasive style
• Ability to plan and organise own work area
• Problem solving ability to daily issues
• Works to the company controls

Key Relationships

• Ability to work within a team
• Maintain effective working relationship with plant and contracts employees and third parties
• Good communication skills with the plant management to raise problems