Delivery Technician

We're looking for a Highways Maintenance Delivery Technician to join our North Northamptonshire team based at Wellingborough Depot. In this exciting role, you'll work closely with a team of skilled technicians, supporting the Senior Delivery Technician and Delivery Manager to deliver high-quality highway maintenance services across the network.

Playing a key role in keeping local roads and infrastructure safe, reliable and well maintained, you'll help ensure essential highway assets continue to serve the communities that rely on them every day. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a collaborative and supportive team while making a visible impact across North Northamptonshire.

Location: Wellingborough Depot, North Northamptonshire
Hours: 40 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £36,050 - £37,766 per year + £5,000 annual car allowance + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Delivery Technician, you'll play a key role in assessing, planning and scheduling highways maintenance works across North Northamptonshire. Your day to day will include:

  • Using works management systems to assess, plan and schedule maintenance works for various teams
  • Ensuring works instructions are complete and verified before being scheduled to repair teams
  • Conducting site-based inspections and audits to verify compliance with health and safety, quality and environmental standards
  • Collaborating with colleagues to achieve key performance indicators and business targets
  • Supporting supervisors, community stewards and inspectors, sharing knowledge and promoting best practice

What are we looking for?

This Delivery Technician role is ideal for someone who has:

  • A current Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) qualification
  • Traffic Management 12D M7 (Lantra) certification and a strong understanding of highway traffic management practices
  • Strong IT skills, including experience using Microsoft Office and digital reporting systems
  • The ability to build positive working relationships with colleagues, clients and stakeholders to deliver effective project outcomes
  • A detail-oriented and disciplined approach, with a commitment to safety, quality and continuous improvement

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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