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Highways Maintenance Apprenticeship - Ringway - Kent
Ashford
£16.6k – £26.5k/yr
Posted 4 days ago
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If you like outdoors and practical work, see details. As part of a small team, carry out routine repairs and maintenance to the highway network: roads, footways, drains, signs, walls, fences, barriers, street furniture, grass verges etc. Assist with response to emergencies, incidents on the network, flooding, storms and other weather events.
Requirements
- Desirable qualifications:
- Working towards Level 1 Maths and English (grade working towards Level 1)
- Skills:
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Other requirements:
- You will learn all of the skills necessary for this Highways Maintenance apprenticeship, through a combination of formal training and practical experience
- You will work in a team alongside our highly experienced colleagues, and you will benefit from their knowledge and their support on a daily basis
- You will be given your PPE
Responsibilities
- What you'll do at work:
- Highways Maintenance (e.g. pothole repairs, grass cutting, winter gritting services)
- Providing traffic management for a diversity of projects
- Regenerating busy high streets
- Installing new bridges
- Working as part of our multi-disciplined teams to deliver innovative solutions to highways maintenance
Benefits
- Wage:
- £16,640 to £26,436.80, depending on your age
- National Minimum Wage
- Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
- We pay National Minimum Wage for 40 hours per week.
- If you are 18-20 year old your hourly rate is £10.85
- If you are 21 or over your hourly rate is £12.71
- Hours:
- Monday to Friday, between 8.00am and 6.00pm (times may vary).
- 40 hours a week
- Duration:
- 1 year 6 months
- Company benefits:
- 20 days holidays, plus 8 Bank Holidays.
- Fixed term contract 2 years with opportunity to permanent contract at the end.
- Networks: Early Careers Woman in Construction, LGTBQ+, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.
- 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:
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you may have the opportunity to join a permanent position
- This will be reviewed and based upon performance and the needs of the business at the time
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Application Process
- Start date:
- Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Positions available:
- 2
- Training:
- Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
- Training provider:
- SOUTH FARNHAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST
- 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)
- Course contents:
- Training schedule:
- At the end of your apprenticeship, you will be awarded a Level 2 Highways Maintenance Apprenticeship
- Level 1 maths and English and if not obtained yet
- You will be required to travel to Farnham College on block release with other apprentices
- Accommodation will be organised for you during your stay at college
- Apply now:
- Closes in 2 days (Wednesday 8 July 2026)
- After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.
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About Ringway
- Together with our associated companies, Ringway teams are responsible for looking after over 50,000 kms of the UK’s highways network – we deliver specialist highway services across the largest highways maintenance portfolio within the UK, including strategic road network, DBFO motorway and trunk roads, and the local authority network.
- We are private sector partners, dedicated to delivering public services.
- We offer best practice maintenance services through local solutions which make an impact in the communities in which we operate.
- We take pride in offering a dedicated, flexible approach which supports our clients, underpinned by the recruitment, development and retention of a locally based workforce and supported by a close community of trusted supply-chain partners.
- Self-delivery is core to our business model.
- Working together with our clients we deliver cyclic and reactive maintenance, incident response, severe weather operations, surfacing and specialist treatments with local accountability and people who take pride in the services they deliver.
- Ringway is committed to creating a working environment that is inclusive and diverse.
- https://www.ringway.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Contact
- The contact for this apprenticeship is:
- SOUTH FARNHAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST
- The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038082.
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Skills
Communication skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Team working