Civils Operative Kingston upon Hull, England
Job description
Civils Operative (Permanent, Full time)
Salary of up to £30,000 dependant on experience plus excellent pension scheme, 25 days annual leave plus your Birthday off, a Wellbeing Day and Volunteering Days, life assurance and corporate discount scheme
Location – Field Based, Hull and Surrounding Areas
Business Area - Wholesale & Networks
Closing Date – 19th March 2023
Interview Dates - to be confirmed after vacancy closing date
What will I be doing?
Within the role of Civils Operative, you will be working on network build and maintenance within Hull and the surrounding areas by installing of cabinets, duct network, Fibre cables and more.
You will be working across a range of settings from private land to public land which could include working in the highways, footways, service strips, gardens or across fields on a range of different surface types.
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Perform associated network build/ maintenance tasks using specialist tools and machinery
- Excavating in the Highways/footways complying with NRSWA and HSG47
- Compliance with SROH (Specification for Reinstatement of Openings in Highways)
- Provide solutions to on site issues that may arise during construction and maintenance of networks
- Comply with all IBMS requirements as detailed in the KCOM policies, ISO certifications, industry standards, legal & regulatory obligations and other related company arrangements and procedures
- Build & maintain best in class network to the most cost-effective methods
We are looking for individuals who:
- Can work safely protecting themselves and the public
- Are comfortable within a physically demanding environment
- Comfortable with location of work changing periodically dependant on work pack
- Have high standards and work ethics
- Can meet agreed standards for Safety, quality, and productivity
- Can deliver work within agreed timescales
- Have enhanced customer service skills
- Have full, clean drivers' licence
What you will get from KCOM
We are as passionate about our people as we are about our customers.
You will have access to an outstanding range of flexible benefits you can pick and choose from such as; exclusive discounts and savings with top retailers, contributions to your pension fund, life assurance and private medical insurance. You will be entitled to a generous holiday allowance and your birthday off work. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements, including options such as part-time work, remote working, job sharing or compressed hours. We have employee engagement forums, onsite facilities and services to support staff from all backgrounds.
At KCOM we celebrate diversity. We are an equal opportunity, disability friendly, lifestyle and orientation supporting, inclusive employer and everyone is welcome. Values are important to us as is the ability to work flexibly and the opportunity to progress and develop as a person and in your career. We want everyone to realise their potential and are committed to providing an environment which support this. We want KCOM to be a great place to work for everyone.
Who are KCOM?
For us, it’s bigger than broadband.
KCOM has been in the heart of the Hull and East Yorkshire community since 1904.
We're proud to be rooted in East Yorkshire and committed to delivering the world's best broadband service to the region.
We are an innovative, award-winning company that is committed to providing a friendly, helpful and world class service to our customers by putting them first. All of our people are responsible for giving our customers the best impression and experience of KCOM.
We completed the first stage of our Lightstream full fibre network - making Hull the fastest, most connected broadband city in the world in 2019. Now we're expanding our award-winning network to bring the benefits of full fibre broadband to even more homes and businesses across the region.
We are a business that thrives on working collaboratively to bring innovative ideas to fruition and continually striving to be the very best at what we do in order to keep our customers connected.
KCOM reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you submit your application as soon as possible.
We are only accepting direct applications to this vacancy and therefore no agency applications will be accepted.
