Area 7 - Highways Maintenance Operative Apprentice

Location: Kettering (NN15 6XS)
Closing Date: 23 days (Friday 23 October 2026)
Posted on: 29 September 2026

Wage

£29,904 a year

Hours

Monday to Friday, 45 hours per week (rotating day and night shifts). 45 hours a week

Start Date

Monday 5 April 2027

Duration

1 year 9 months

Positions Available

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

• Carry out routine and cyclic maintenance activities.
• Undertake minor civil works, drainage works and carriageway patching.
• Maintain high technical standards and attend project and work briefings as required.
• Drive and operate vehicles and plant requiring general and specialist skills.
• Carry out vehicle checks, routine maintenance such as oil and water checks, cleaning and accurate recording of defects before starting each shift.
• Carry out other highway maintenance activities, including litter picking, winter maintenance and emergency call-out operations.
• Take responsibility for your own safety and the safety of others in your team, ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and safe operations to protect members of the public.
• Accurately record drivers' hours, time and resource utilisation in line with the operating allocation system.
• Keep records, complete all necessary paperwork, and communicate and liaise with Amey employees, subcontractors, emergency services, the police, members of the public, clients and customers.

Where you'll work

• Pytchley Depot
• Kettering NN15 6XS

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)

What you'll learn

• 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.