Highways Maintenance Operative Apprentice
AMEY SERVICES LIMITED
Kettering, Northampton
Closes on Friday 31 October 2025
Posted on 22 September 2025
Contents
Summary
We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Highways Maintenance Operative Apprentice to join our Area 7 account based in Northamptonshire.
- Wage
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£28,729 a year
- Training course
- Lead traffic management operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, days and nights. 07:00 - 15:00 days, 19:00 - 05:00 nights.
45 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 April 2026
- Duration
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1 year 9 months
- Positions available
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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
- Routine and cyclic maintenance activities.
- Minor civil and drainage works.
- Carriageway patching.
- Maintain high technical standards.
- Attend project and work briefings as required.
- To drive/operate vehicles/plant requiring general and specialist skills including vehicle, checks, routine maintenance, (e.g. oil and water checks etc) and cleaning.
- All aspects of highway maintenance works including routine and cyclic maintenance activities, minor civils’ works, litter picking, etc.
- Winter maintenance operations.
- 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 member of the public.
- Carrying out vehicle checks prior to shift starting, correctly filling in defect books.
- Recording of Drivers hours.
- Allocation and capturing time and resource utilisation in line with operated allocation system.
- To keep records, complete all necessary paperwork, communicate, and liaise with other employees of Amey, sub-contractors, the emergency services, the police, the public, clients and customers.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Pytchley Depot, Kettering, NN15 6XS
- Depot, Rothersthorpe Motorway Services Area, M1, Northampton, NN4 9QS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
TIME2TRAIN LTD
Training course
Lead traffic management operative (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations.
- Follows safe systems of work including carrying out static and dynamic risk assessments.
- Carry out operator maintenance and minor repair, checks and configuration requirements to TTM vehicles within limits of responsibility, escalating defects. For example: impact protection vehicle (IPV), traffic management installation vehicle, traffic management maintenance vehicle, traffic management airlock or closure point vehicle or traffic management convoy vehicle.
- Carry out operator maintenance and minor repair, checks and configuration requirements to TTM plant within limits of responsibility, escalating defects. For example: mobile lane closure signs & trailers, temporary traffic light units, ROBO stop and go signs, portable variable message signs or portable tower lights.
- Move, handle and store TTM equipment and systems.
- Load, unload and secure TTM equipment and systems to and from vehicles or plant.
- Select and use TTM PPE.
- Interpret traffic management layouts, design and technical specifications.
- Select and prepare TTM equipment and systems.
- Plan for and organise installation.
- Inspect, maintain, repair and replace TTM equipment and systems.
- Operate and guide plant and vehicles to create safe working zones within limits of responsibility.
- Install, position, secure and remove TTM equipment and systems tailored to the road type, without disadvantaging those with mobility and sensory impairment.
- Apply digital TTM technologies to a TTM system. For example, incursion warning systems, automated traffic signal controls, variable message signs or tablet-based work management systems.
- Respond to and contain emergencies including traffic accidents and vulnerable persons in crisis and seek support of formal responders.
- Restore the carriageway to a safe condition.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Communicate with others verbally: internal and external customers, colleagues and managers.
- Complete task documentation, paper-based or digital.
- Applies team working principles.
- Comply with health and safety regulations.
- Follows safe systems of work including carrying out static and dynamic risk assessments.
- Carry out operator maintenance and minor repair, checks and configuration requirements to TTM vehicles within limits of responsibility, escalating defects. For example: impact protection vehicle (IPV), traffic management installation vehicle, traffic management maintenance vehicle, traffic management airlock or closure point vehicle or traffic management convoy vehicle.
- Carry out operator maintenance and minor repair, checks and configuration requirements to TTM plant within limits of responsibility, escalating defects. For example: mobile lane closure signs & trailers, temporary traffic light units, ROBO stop and go signs, portable variable message signs or portable tower lights.
- Move, handle and store TTM equipment and systems.
- Load, unload and secure TTM equipment and systems to and from vehicles or plant.
- Select and use TTM PPE.
- Interpret traffic management layouts, design and technical specifications.
- Select and prepare TTM equipment and systems.
- Plan for and organise installation.
- Inspect, maintain, repair and replace TTM equipment and systems.
- Operate and guide plant and vehicles to create safe working zones within limits of responsibility.
- Install, position, secure and remove TTM equipment and systems tailored to the road type, without disadvantaging those with mobility and sensory impairment.
- Apply digital TTM technologies to a TTM system. For example, incursion warning systems, automated traffic signal controls, variable message signs or tablet-based work management systems.
- Respond to and contain emergencies including traffic accidents and vulnerable persons in crisis and seek support of formal responders.
- Restore the carriageway to a safe condition.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Communicate with others verbally: internal and external customers, colleagues and managers.
- Complete task documentation, paper-based or digital.
- Applies team working principles.
Training schedule
As part of your apprenticeship, you will be enrolled onto a Lead Traffic Management 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.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
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. Please note that successful applicants will be required to undergo random drug and alcohol testing in line with our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant working environment.
About this employer
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.
http://amey.co.uk (opens in new tab)
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
Permanent employment for the successful candidate after completion of the apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TIME2TRAIN LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342385.
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Closes on Friday 31 October 2025
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