Highways Maintenance Operative Construction Apprentice
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Highways Maintenance Operative Construction Apprentice
Type: Apprentice
Location: Oldbury (B69 2RA)
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
- Watching the team work and help to keep the working area tidy.
- Start to get an understanding of the different materials & machinery we use & why we use them.
- Start to support the team with different jobs required within the surfacing and civil engineering tasks.
- Learning aspects of preperation, base layer, binder layer, wearing course and compaction and finishing.
- Being part of a team working on surfacing work that includes examples such as car parks, forecourts, loading bays, playgrounds and service roads.
Where you’ll work
Pearsall Drive
Oldbury
B69 2RA
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
- Highways Maintenance Operative Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard.
- Mentors in the workplace.
- Block release held at Telford College.
- Assigned Telford College assessor.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 2 / E)
- Maths (grade 2 / E)
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
- Team working
- Good attitude
- Reliability
- Commitment
Other requirements
MacDonald Surfacing works nationally, the successful candidates will be expected to make their own way to the depot they are assigned to, the onward journeys to site will be in one of our own vehicles with the rest of the team they are assigned to.
There would also be times where you stay away from home in hotel accommodation on certain jobs.
About this company
For over 20 years, Redditch based MacDonald Surfacing have been a top of the range tarmac contractor across Birmingham, Redditch & the West Midlands. We now operate nationwide and have a number of depots. We often undertake commercial, industrial and domestic tarmac surfacing projects and are looking to develop the next generation of skilled and knowledgable highways maintenance operatives.
https://www.crmacdonald.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
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