Highways Maintenance Apprenticeship

Summary

If you like outdoors and practical work, you can work as part of a small team, to 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

£22,568 a year

We pay National Minimum Wage for 40 hours per week. If you are 18-20 year old your hourly rate is £10.85 If you are 21 or over your hourly rate is £12.71

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

Thursday 16 July 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

Sandy Depot Unit 6
Beamish Close
Sandy
SG19 1SD

Training

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

Training provider

TELFORD COLLEGE

Training course

Highways maintenance skilled operative (level 2)

What you'll learn

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)

Training schedule

• Highways Maintenance Skilled Operative Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
• Mentor support in the workplace
• Block release at Telford College
• Allocated assessor from Telford College

Requirements

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Team working
• Commitment
• Reliability

Other requirements

There will be a block release held at Telford College at regular intervals. You will need to travel to Telford College, and you'll have accommodation in a local hotel booked for you. These blocks run from Tuesday to Friday with dates confirmed. Please note that whilst at college and in the hotel, you an ambassador of the company and your behaviour should be of a very high conduct. Due to Health & Safety, you must be aged 18 or old for this role.