Highways Maintenance Apprenticeship - Ringway - London – Find an apprenticeship

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. To assist with response to emergencies, incidents on the network, flooding, storms and other weather events.

Wage

£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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We pay National Minimum Wage for 40 hours per week. If you are 18-20 year old your hourly rate is £10.00 If you are 21 or over your hourly rate is £12.21

Training course

Highways maintenance skilled operative (level 2)

Hours

Monday to Friday, between start time: 8:00am, finish time 6:00pm (times may vary).

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 1 August 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

4

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

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 highways maintenance

Where you’ll work

14 Armada Way
Beckton
E6 7AB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

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 Highways Maitenance Apprenticeship
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
Accomodation will be organised for you during your stay at College

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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Company benefits

20 days holidays plus 8 days bank holidays. Fixed term contract 2 years with opportunity to permanent contract at the end

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 upon 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 VAC1000310628.

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Closes in 28 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025)

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Highways Maintenance Apprenticeship - Ringway - London

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