Yard Operative
Due to rapid growth within the business, OCU Group are currently recruiting for a Yard Operative to help with our busy yard in Bridgend!
Responsibilities of the Yard Operative:
- Ensure the yard is always operational, safe and compliant to H&S regulations
- Maintain an up-to-date awareness of H&S
- Conduct regular inspections of the yard
- Monitoring and controlling access and parking within the yard
- Keep the yard neat and tidy
- Monitoring and controlling aggregate bays along with other materials stored in the yard
- Monitoring and controlling waste skips
- Loading and unloading lorries if required
- Any other reasonable tasks that you are requested to carry out
What we are looking for:
- Experience working in a busy yard/similar environment
- Banksman Qualification is desirable
- CSCS Qualification is desirable
- Initiative to carry out tasks independently
- Ability to cope with the physical demands of the role
- Counterbalance FLT Licence is desirable
- Ability to communicate effectively to ensure efficiency
- Division
- OCU Utility Services
- Locations
- Bridgend
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment Status
- CIS

Bridgend
Our People, our Culture, our Values
As a business, we pride ourselves on operating a ‘People First’ culture, striving to constantly deliver on our 5 core company values.
1. We Care about Safety - It is our goal for everyone working on our behalf to go home healthy and safe at the end of each and every day.
2. We lead with Integrity - Integrity is central to everything we do. Without it, we wouldn’t have the relationships with our clients, nor would we have built an enviable reputation within the industry.
3. We strive to be Better everyday - We take pride in everything we do. This involves a meticulous approach to our work, endeavouring to make each day better than the last.
4. We make a Positive Impact - We want to make the places we work in better; leaving a lasting infrastructure and social legacy. We believe in proactivity to maximise impact.
5. We Deliver to Grow - The successful delivery of frameworks and contracts feeds our ability to grow strategically and strengthen OCU to expand the business and capabilities even further.
About OCU
Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions.
Working directly with many of the country’s leading blue-chip power, water, telecoms and rail clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.
We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment.
We believe that being successful is a choice.
We choose to be successful.
We are OCU, ‘One Company United’.
Yard Operative
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