apprentice Highways maintenance operative in Manchester

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an Apprentice Highways Maintenance Operative to join our Area 10 account based in Manchester. As an apprentice Highways maintenance operative, you will play an integral role in maintaining our roads, you will be responsible for:

• All aspects of highway maintenance works including routine and cyclic maintenance activities, minor civils' works, litter picking, etc.
• Completing minor civil and drainage works.
• Undertaking carriageway patching.
• Maintain high technical standards.
• Attend project and work briefings as required.
• Driving and operating vehicles/plant requiring general and specialist skills.
• Carrying out vehicle checks, routine maintenance (e.g. oil and water checks etc) and cleaning.
• Winter maintenance operations.
• Involved in assisting emergency call out operations.
• Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others within your team to ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public.
• Apply appropriate health, safety and environment procedures when working on the road.
• Plan and undertake work practice productively when carrying out repairs to potholes, pavements and kerbs, and laying new surfaces on rural and urban roads.
• Read, interpret and work to drawings, specifications and highways information.
• Use underground cable locators to identify buried water, gas, sewer lines or other utility services, and once identified excavate by hand around the line to stop any damage and disruption to services.
• Apply safe working practice for moving, storing, lifting and handling of resources.
• Excavation and reinstatement of the highway by carrying out maintenance and repairs, including removal of material within the road or roadside using hand or power tools and reinstatement of the area using concrete, screeds, sub-base, aggregates or bituminous materials.
• Install Street Ironworks (drain access covers and frames and gully gates situated on the road) to given work instructions.
• Prepare and operate powered tools or pedestrian plant, machinery or equipment for use on roads.
• Prepare, set up and work within temporary traffic management (using cones and barriers to section off elements of the road from vehicles and pedestrians) on urban and rural roads, whilst excavating and reinstating the highway.
• Work with other sub-contractors on larger schemes (e.g. traffic management).

Qualifications and Skills:

• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Numerical skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical thinking
• Team working
• Creative thinking
• Initiative
• Non-judgemental approach
• Physical fitness

If the candidates do not have GCSE/functional skills qualifications, they must achieve a minimum of entry level 3 in maths and English during initial assessment. Full UK Driving license. DBS requirement. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age to be eligible for consideration, due to the nature of the work associated with this account.

As part of your apprenticeship, you will be enrolled onto a Highways maintenance skilled operative level 2 apprenticeship which will take approximately 21 months to complete. You will be fully supported by our partnered college to achieve this qualification, having 1-2-1 advice and support, e-learning materials, and a whole team of experts on hand for advice and technical knowledge at your office.

Join our vibrant, inclusive community in Area 10 working on diverse projects that make a real positive impact across the UK. Amey has been working in partnership with Highways England, to provide maintenance and response services for more than 300 miles of strategic road network in the Northwest, connecting the cities of Manchester, Liverpool and the surrounding areas. Amey is a leading infrastructure services and engineering company. Our 11,000 people are behind the critical services the country relies on every day and we each take personal pride in our public service. Our unique engineering and operations experience, together with data driven insight from our consulting business, delivers better results for our clients. We are trusted partners of Government - both national and local - managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the country.