Highways Maintenance Apprenticeship
RINGWAY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES LIMITED
Sandy (SG19 1SD)
Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 August 2025
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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
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£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
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Monday to Friday, between start time: 8.00am, finish time 6.00pm (times may vary).
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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3
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)
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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 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 whilst at college and in the hotel, you an ambassador of the company and behavior should be of a very high conduct.
About this employer
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.
Company benefits
20 days holidays plus 8 days bank holidays. Fixed Term 2 years contract
After this apprenticeship
- Permanent contract and career opportunities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TELFORD COLLEGE
Chris Field
apprentices@telfordcollege.ac.uk
01952 642452
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335732.
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Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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