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Job Type
Permanent
Business
Higgins
Location
Hawke's Bay
Job Reference
39046
Posted Date
21-Jan-2025
Closing Date
14-Feb-2025

Description

The Higgins Green Team in Hawke's Bay have an awesome opportunity for a Specialist Operator to join the crew.  

  • Competitive hourly rate + guaranteed 40 hours per week 
  • Opportunity to upskill and gain further licences 
  • Join a supportive team that treat each other like Whānau
  • Ongoing training and development to help you reach your career goals
  • Career development – opportunities to grow your career at Higgins and the wider Fletcher Building group of businesses
  • Access to Fletchers Building Benefits Programme
  • Brand new PPE gear (that’s your own personal protective equipment)

As part of our sealing crew, your role will be to manage the efficient operation of the bitumen sprayer, ensuring accurate and high quality application.


What you’ll bring to the role:
  • Previous experience as a sprayer operator in chip sealing or surfacing industry 
  • Class 5 with WTR 
  • Dangerous Goods licence preferred, and we can put you through that if needed
  • A safety-first attitude – for yourself and the public
  • Team player 
  • Flexible, committed and reliable – will turn up rain or shine
  • Passion for our industry and the willingness to work hard and learn

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

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.