Road Worker x2 Caernarfon, Wales
Job description
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this [Information Pack] (https://www.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/en/Council/Jobs/Working-for-us.aspx)
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.
(Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)
For further information about this post please contact Ian Morgan on 07818017011.
Interviews will be held – to be confirmed
Application forms and further details available from, Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel: 01286 679076
E-Mail: [email protected]
CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, THURSDAY, 16th of FEBRUARY, 2023
If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.
Personal attributes
Essential
- General good character
- Ability to work using own initiative
Desirable
Qualifications and relevant training
Essential
Desirable
- LGV Class I or 2
- NRSWA (Streetworks) Qualification, Health and Safety Qualification,
- 12D Traffic Management
- CSCS Cards
Relevant experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years experience in Civil Engineering or Highway Maintenance work
Desirable
Skills and specialist knowledge
Essential
- Clean driving licence
- Health and Safety Awareness including risk assessment
Desirable
- Ability to set out work to line and level
- Good IT Skills
Language requirements
Essential
Listening and Speaking - Entry Level
Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly.Able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for information
Reading and Understanding - Entry Level
Able to read and understand short and simple letters, e-mails, leaflets, and signs in Welsh and English on familiar everyday issues, in order to convey them to someone else.
Writing - Entry Level
Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.
Purpose of the post
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
Responsibility for functions
- Staff who are responsible for the duties noted. Any plant, machinery in conjunction with the duties noted. Undertake tasks largely described as specialist work which will include the setting out of work and driving or operating heavy/complex plant and equipment requiring specialist skills
Main duties
Duties will include the need to work to precise levels and requirements in construction work in a number of tasks, for example:-
- Drain laying; trench timbering; manhole construction; shuttering; steel fixing; scaffolding; reinforced concreting; kerb laying; fencing; walling; flag and block paving and sewers in tunnels;
There is also a requirement to direct the work of lower graded operatives.
Other duties include:-
- The erection and removal of appropriate signs and barriers
- The preparation, application, compaction and removal of soils, rocks, coated and other materials
- Work on highway furniture and equipment including erection, fixing and/or dismantling;
- Planting and general maintenance of highways environs;
- Provide general support and assistance to skilled and specialist operatives
In addition to the requirement to drive or operate heavy/complex plant and equipment there is a requirement to drive vehicles and wheeled tractors with simple attachments and to operate powered hand tools; minor plant and machinery with the need for appropriate routine maintenance of all such vehicles and machinery such as oil/water checks and cleaning.
- Responsibility for self-development.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
- Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
- Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
- Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
THERE IS A DUTY TO ENSURE THE SAFE OPERATION OF PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AT ALL TIMES WITH PARTICULAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SAFETY OF THE WORKFORCE AND PUBLIC IN RELATION TO IT.
Special circumstances
- There is a need to work outside working hours to respond to the requirements of the service and emergencies
