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General Information

Job Type
Permanent
Business
Higgins
Location
Manawatu-Whanganui
Job Reference
40705
Posted Date
12-Jun-2025
Closing Date
10-Jul-2025

Description

We are seeking Road Maintenance Labourers to join the Green Team based in Taihape.


Come join the Green Team

  • Competitive hourly rate + Guaranteed 40 hours per week   
  • Support to gain further licences, if required 
  • Career development – opportunities to grow your career at Higgins


About the Role

As a Road Maintenance Labourer you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and quality of our road networks.  You will be involved in the general maintenance, repair works, annual programmed works, pre-seal repairs and additional works.


What you’ll bring to the role

  • Full Class 1 & 2 Driver's license required
  • WTR (Wheels, Tracks, and Rollers) endorsement a bonus
  • Previous experience in road maintenance is preferred
  • Must be available to work on an on-call roster
  • Experience with incident response is a plus
  • Familiarity with RAMM is beneficial
  • Reliable, honest, and a good team player

Higgins is a leading roading and civil infrastructure company in New Zealand. We are on a dynamic growth path with people at the heart of what we do every day. We offer a great working environment, competitive hourly rate, subsidised medical insurance and subsidised education and training for you and your dependants.

Higgins is committed to a drug-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing along with a health check – you’ll need to be fit for work!

Building better roads for safer journeys – He pai ake te hanga o ngā rori, kia haumaru ai ngā haerenga 

We are actively looking to fill this role and encourage your early application. Applications are reviewed regularly, and we reserve the right to remove the advertisement before the advertised closing date.

Research shows that females and minority groups don’t always apply for roles unless they match 100% of the requirements. So, if this role is of interest but you feel you don’t quite fit, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are enriched by many nationalities, languages, religions, customs, and lifestyles. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that make us better together.