Highways Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship
Marlborough Highways
Brentwood (CM13 3FB)
Closes in 23 days (Monday 2 June 2025)
Posted on 9 May 2025
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Summary
Marlborough Highways is looking for enthusiastic and committed individuals to join our team as Highways Maintenance Skilled Operative Apprentices. You'll benefit from an 18-month fully funded apprenticeship to develop both practical skills and theoretical knowledge, whilst gaining hands-on experience to pave the way for a career in highways.
- Wage
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£29,484 a year
- Training course
- Highways maintenance skilled operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, typically 7.00am - 4.00pm.
45 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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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
- Excavate and reinstate highways by carrying out maintenance and repair tasks
- Remove material within roads or adjacent areas using hand or power tools
- Undertake both reactive and planned maintenance on rural and urban roads
- Read, interpret, and work to drawings, specifications, and highway information
- Prepare and operate powered tools or pedestrian plant machinery (rollers, mixers, compressors)
Where you'll work
Codham Hall
Great Warley
Brentwood
CM13 3FB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
THE SKILLS CENTRE LONDON LIMITED
Your training course
Highways maintenance skilled operative (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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)
Your training plan
Block release at College, once a month.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
The job involves working outdoors in various weather conditions and can be physically demanding
About this company
Marlborough Highways is an established, independent and dynamic civil engineering company with 30 years of industry experience and expertise in public realm, regeneration and infrastructure projects. We work with Councils, Local Authorities and Contractors in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the South East, delivering pioneering multi-million-pound trials and rollouts for large programmes and phased schemes through to smaller one-off projects.
http://www.marlboroughhighways.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme - Gym and Retail discounts - 24/7 GP Access through healthcare provider - Healthcare cash plan to reimburse employees - Company social events - Employee Recognition Scheme
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
Apprentices will be permanent employees at Marlborough Highways.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Marlborough Highways
Tom Hatton
tom.hatton@marlboroughhighways.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319612.
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Closes in 23 days (Monday 2 June 2025)
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