Apprentice Highways Operative
M Group Highways
Abingdon (OX14 4EZ)
Closes on Sunday 29 June 2025
Posted on 21 May 2025
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Summary
You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes. Want to come and be a part of it?
- Wage
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£19,718.40 a year
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Yearly salary increase
- Training course
- Highways maintenance skilled operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday between 7.00am and 6.00pm (starting times can 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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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
This 18-month programme will develop your practical, technical and soft-skills, with Health & Safety at the heart of everything you do. On successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will gain a Highways Maintenance Skilled Operative Level 2 qualification and a permanent, long-term career with M Group Highways!
- Highways Maintenance (e.g. pothole repairs, grass cutting, winter gritting services).
- Providing traffic management for a diversity of projects.
- Working as part of our multi-disciplined teams to deliver innovative solutions to highways maintenance.
- Depending on your location you may be required to travel to college on block release with fellow apprentices and stay in a hotel for your relaxation time.
Where you'll work
Highways
Milton Road, Drayton
Abingdon
OX14 4EZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
TELFORD COLLEGE
Your 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)
Your training plan
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Maths & English (grade Grade E or above)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
- Logical
- Team working
- Physical fitness
About this company
M Group Highways look after 24,000 miles of roads, 280,000 lighting assets and 20,000 miles of footways, always with a view to ensuring that all works are carried out as sustainably as possible and with minimal impact to local communities. We are proud members of the 5% Club and are committed to ensuring that at least 5% of our workforce are in earn and learn roles such as apprenticeships. Currently this figure is closer to 9% and growing.
Company benefits
21 days annual leave plus bank holidays Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us! Holiday purchase scheme Standby / Overtime / Call out Personal Accident Cover
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
You will be promoted into the business as a qualified Highways Operative with opportunities for further training and development.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
M Group Highways
Louisa Stearn
louisa.stearn@mgroupltd.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322062.
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Closes on Sunday 29 June 2025
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