Highways Maintenance Apprenticeship - Ringway - Isle of Wight

RINGWAY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES LIMITED

Isle of Wight, PO30 5XJ

Closes tomorrow (Friday 20 September)

Posted on 2 September 2024

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Summary

If you like outdoors and practical work see details. As part of a small team, carry out routine repairs and maintenance to the highway network: roads, footways, drains, signs, walls, fences, barriers, street furniture, grass verges, etc.

Annual wage
£13,312 to £23,795.20 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

We pay the National Minimum Wage for your age for 40 hours per week 16-17 year old - £13,312 per year 18-20 years old - £17,880 per year 21 and above - £ 23,795 per year

Training course
Highways maintenance skilled operative (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, between start time: 8:00am, finish time 6:00pm (times may vary - breaks to be confirmed).

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 15 October

Duration

1 Year 6 Months

Positions available

2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • Highways Maintenance (e.g. pothole repairs, grass cutting, winter gritting services)
  • Providing traffic management for a diversity of projects
  • Regenerating busy high streets
  • Installing new bridges
  • Working as part of our multi-disciplined teams to deliver innovative solutions to highway maintenance

Where you’ll work

St Christopher House

42 Daish Way

Newport

Isle of Wight

PO30 5XJ

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

SOUTH FARNHAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Your training course

Highways maintenance skilled operative (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents
  • 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 Highways information will include details on the use of safety barriers, cones, traffic flow and safety zones to work within, whilst employed on the highway
  • 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 practise 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 road side 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. This will include machinery for generator™s, pumps, pedestrian operated plant (e.g. pushed roller), mixers, compressors and self“powered tools (pneumatic drill)
  • 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 re-instating the highway
  • Work with other sub-contractors on larger schemes (e.g. traffic management)

    • Your training plan

    At the end of your apprenticeship, you will be awarded a Level 2 Groundwork Apprenticeship Standard Qualification.

    Functional Skills Level 1 Maths and English and if not obtained yet. 

    You will be required to travel to Farnham College on block release with other apprentices.

    Requirements

    Desirable qualifications

    Other in:

    • Working towards Level 1 Maths and English (grade working towards Level 1)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Communication skills
    • Customer care skills
    • Problem solving skills
    • Team working

    Other requirements

    You will learn all of the skills necessary for this Highways Maintenance apprenticeship, through a combination of formal training and practical experience. You will work in a team alongside our highly experienced colleagues, and you will benefit from their knowledge and their support on a daily basis. You will be given your PPE.

    About this company

    Together with our associated companies, Ringway teams are responsible for looking after over 50,000 kms of the UK’s highways network – we deliver specialist highway services across the largest highways maintenance portfolio within the UK, including strategic road network, DBFO motorway and trunk roads, and the local authority network. We are private sector partners, dedicated to delivering public services. We offer best practice maintenance services through local solutions which make an impact in the communities in which we operate. We take pride in offering a dedicated, flexible approach which supports our clients, underpinned by the recruitment, development and retention of a locally based workforce and supported by a close community of trusted supply-chain partners. Self-delivery is core to our business model. Working together with our clients we deliver cyclic and reactive maintenance, incident response, severe weather operations, surfacing and specialist treatments with local accountability and people who take pride in the services they deliver. Ringway is committed to creating a working environment that is inclusive and diverse.

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    Disability Confident

    Disability Confident

    A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

    You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

    After this apprenticeship

    Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you may have the opportunity to join a permanent position. This will be reviewed and based on performance and the needs of the business at the time.

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    SOUTH FARNHAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000274185.

    Apply now

    Closes tomorrow (Friday 20 September)

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