Skilled Roadworker

The City of Edinburgh Council is the local government authority for Scotland's capital, serving over 530,000 residents. As the second-largest council in Scotland with 19,000 employees, it manages key services including education, housing, social work, roads, and waste. The Council aims to create a net-zero, fairer, and thriving city by 2030.

Based at our Bankhead Depot, Roads Operations offers an environment in which workers are valued and respected with a key focus on training and development of our staff to ensure they can undertake multiple different roads operations and develop their skills base.

Skilled Roadworkers are key members of the Roads Operations Team and play a central role in leading and shaping the success of Roads Operations, delivering road and street maintenance and improvements and keeping people moving safely about the city during winter weather.

• You will undertake a range of services and activities, including surfacing, drainage, hard landscaping and carriageway marking.
• You will drive vehicles appropriate to the licence type held and be responsible for the vehicle and undertake appropriate checks and paperwork.
• You will act as a first point of contact with the local community providing advice ensuring the highest possible standards of customer care are maintained.

We are looking for Skilled Roadworkers with drainage, surfacing and/or slabbing/kerbing experience in a roads environment to join our existing squads city-wide and ensure our streets are maintained to the highest standards. Successful applicants will have potential opportunity to increase earnings by working occasional overtime and winter maintenance.

• Full UK Driving Licence. This post requires a minimum C1 Driving Licence to drive vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes or a commitment to obtain that licence within 6 months of employment
• Able to demonstrate an ability to work with handheld technology
• Sound knowledge of equipment and machinery used within roads operations
• Experience of drainage, hard landscape, carriageway marking or surfacing
• Able to work with the minimum of supervision and prioritise workloads ensuring relevant standards and timescales are met
• Ensure that resources allocated are maintained and used appropriately
• Able to communicate with members of the public to advice on service-related issues and provide feed-back to management.

• Additional working payments depending on shifts
• Potential additional disturbance payments £1,635
• Potential additional summer and winter on-call payments £3,159.28
• Potential additional overtime
• Flexible annual leave.