Yard Operative

Description

Careys Plant & Fleet is a support division of the Carey Group, a family-owned civil engineering and dry-lining company with over 50 years of experience. The division supplies plant, vehicles, and equipment to Careys’ construction projects across the UK.

As a Yard Operative, you'll be based at the Plant Yard, preparing and maintaining equipment for site use. Your duties will include inspecting and cleaning equipment, jet washing, learning spray painting techniques, checking for serviceability, basic repairs, counting items returned from sites, preparing orders, and general manual handling tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Adhere to current health and safety legislation and carry out any necessary health and safety training.
• Carry out checks and inspections of equipment to ensure it is in good working order.
• Assist with cleaning, repairs and servicing of equipment where required.
• Ensure that everything that is dispatched is serviceable and fit for purpose.
• Accurately counting equipment back into the yard when it is returned.
• Getting orders ready from pick lists provided to you by the Yard Supervisor
• Cleaning equipment using a water jet wash.
• Paint spraying items of equipment and maintaining the spraying tools.
• Always maintain good housekeeping in the yard and workshop.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Benefits

Our story starts in 1969 with three brothers and a van.

John, Tom and Pat Carey moved to London from Ireland and started a groundworks contracting company in London called PJ Carey Plant Hire (Oval) Ltd.

Their aspirations at the time were reflective of the values of the Carey Group today – to care about everything they did, to act with humility in all interactions, to be passionate about their work and be authentic at all times.

The Carey Group remains a family-owned construction business, operating across the UK and Ireland. Their goal at the time was to grow to around 50 operatives and provide quality, safe work so that they and their employees could provide for their families and get safe home every day. Through hard work and sticking to their values and their word, this was certainly achieved….and some.

Throughout the years, we have remained committed to delivering on our promises, respecting our clients, offering innovative solutions and producing the highest-quality work in safe environments. These are the core principles set by our Founders, the ones we have never wavered from and they help us to fulfil our ultimate vision to be the most trusted and socially responsible construction company, that people are proud to work with.

Our strong approach is underpinned by robust financial management, continuous investment in our people, specialist equipment and strategic assets and our long-standing culture of teamwork – we want to create the very best environments for our people.

We care about our people and our partners and how we work with them, ensuring we do our best by them. Ultimately, we care about our impact on the world around us and the communities that we proudly help to shape.