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About us:

You can create your own career in so many ways at Transport Infrastructure. Whichever programme you choose, you’ll learn and grow at every level. And you’ll join with all kinds of incredible individuals to make positive change happen, together.

Amey’s Apprenticeship programme is an opportunity for practical and hands-on people like you to jump into the world of Highways Maintenance. As well as a permanent position, this is an earn-while-you-learn apprenticeship, giving you the chance to connect a professional qualification with real on the job experience. Not only will you be learning, growing, and developing but you will be making an impact every day. In addition to this, you’ll also enjoy some impressive benefits and have access to the support, guidance, and training to achieve all your short-term and long-term career goals

As an apprentice, you’ll join a growing team of big thinkers who love finding solutions to difficult problems. You’ll always be supported, surrounded by people who want you to thrive and embrace new challenges, recognising your hard work and looking out for your wellbeing.

We’re proud of what we do, because we’re all given the freedom to perform and given the flexibility to work in a way that suits you – it’s what makes a career with us unlike any other.

Our Opportunity:

By joining our Highway Maintenance Apprentice Programme, you will embark on an exciting journey that provides the perfect opportunity for you to kick start your career.

Our 24-month apprenticeship programme combines studying for your Highways Maintenance Skilled Operative Level 2 apprenticeship, alongside working with our experienced and qualified team of Highways professionals. Whether you are meeting with the client to understand expectations or being onsite and operational, you’ll help us in delivering a full range of services on our key Highways contracts with Kent County Council from one of our five operational depots (Sandwich, Ashford, Faversham, Haysden, and Aylesford).

Your qualification will be delivered by our training provider CP Assessments at their centre in Doncaster. Attendance is via six, five-day training blocks, but don’t worry your accommodation and travel costs are covered by us.

You will learn the skills and trades necessary for highway maintenance through a combination of formal training and practical experience, including all aspects of highway maintenance works from winter maintenance activities, minor civil’s works through to installing traffic management. Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself to ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect members of the public.

Specific duties are likely to include:

  • Attend project and work briefings as required.
  • All aspects of highway maintenance on the strategic road network works including: Routine and cyclic maintenance activitiesDrainage worksCarriageway patchingWinter maintenance operations.Drive our Amey Fleet vehicles
  • Emergencies call out operations.
  • Taking responsibility for the safety of yourself to ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and safe operation to protect member of the public.
  • Allocation and capturing time and resource utilisation in line with operated allocation system.
  • To keep records, complete all necessary paperwork, communicate, and liaise with other employees of Amey, sub-contractors, the emergency services, the police, the public, clients, and customers

    • What will you bring?

    One of the best things about an Apprenticeship with us is that you don’t need to have previous experience in working on our busy highways. However, we do hope that you’ll share our interest in Highways Maintenance. As this is an operational role, we are looking for people who love getting hands on and stuck in!

    We treat people as individuals. We want a range of abilities, from practicality and problem-solving to precision and creativity. That goes for diversity too. We want a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve and value the experiences that you bring to our business.

    You should be comfortable working outside come wind, rain, or shine! As you will be working on the Highways it is essential that you’re also keen to develop a good understanding of Health & Safety and can be confident in that environment. We therefore keep our list of essential requirements to a minimum, but there are a few things needed to qualify for our programme:

    Minimum qualifications required:

  • 2 GCSE A*-D/9-3 (or equivalent) grades. Must include Maths and English
  • Available to join our programme in April 2021
  • Passion for developing your skills both professional and personally
  • A commitment to complete your two-year apprenticeship whilst working
  • A full, clean UK Driving licence would be desirable

    • In return:

    If you join Amey as a Highways Apprentice, you will join us for the long term! We place great value on our people and the contribution they make to our business, so it’s important that our rewards make us feel valued here. If you’re happy, you’ll think better. It’s a simple formula but one that puts your wellbeing as a top priority, that’s why we recognise individual needs and offer a flexible reward and benefits package that puts you first, including.

  • Starting salary of £17,375
  • Fully funded Level 2 Apprenticeship
  • Exceptional development and progression plan
  • 24 Days annual leave + Bank Holidays, Pension Scheme
  • Choices: Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
  • Save with Amey: Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on days out, or nights in
  • Social Value: You’ll get a Community Involvement Day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives for CRUK, or where eligible, participate in the DoE Gold Award

    • Why Amey?

    We’re big on making our diverse workplace a conducive environment for ideas to thrive and place a high importance on the culture, health, and well-being of our people. We have passionate ambassadors who lead our thriving affinity groups, specialist mental health and wellbeing ambassadors, access to a Health and Wellbeing App, an Employee Assistance Programme if you need confidential advice/support, Wellbeing Wednesdays, and dedicated pastoral care colleagues who proactively ensure you are getting all the personal and professional support that you need.

    As part of our Early Careers community, you’ll join more than 300 other Graduates, Degree Apprentices, Apprentices and Placement students working across our entire Amey organisation. Being part of this community provides for excellent development, peer-to-peer networking opportunities, involvement in a range of social value and fun extra-curricular activities.

    You’ll also be provided with a “buddy”, to assist you as you settle in, and an industry expert as a professional mentor, to help guide you towards achieving your professional qualifications/accreditation.

    We encourage our people to bring their whole selves to work; meaning that you can be your true self. We believe true diversity of backgrounds and skills, create the best environment and opportunities. It means we ask the right questions to arrive at smarter solutions because we learn from each other’s perspectives. And this means smarter outcomes for our clients, our communities and ourselves. You’ll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as our shared one.

    If you want professional development, accelerated career progression, an environment that encourages entrepreneurial spirit, it’s all here for you, at Amey.

    Next Steps:

    We appreciate that applying for an Apprenticeship opportunity, for some, can be a new or daunting experience, which is why we try to make our process as simple, transparent, and as engaging as possible.

    Step 1: Follow the link to apply and answer a few simple questions.

    Step 2: Complete a fun, web-based, behavioural assessment.

    Step 3: Learn more about the role via an informal online briefing or 1-2-1 discussion.

    Step 4: Attend an Assessment Day

    Step 5: Receive a decision and constructive feedback.

    Our process really is as simple as that, so what are you waiting for? Good Luck!

    For this particular role, the deadline for applications is 30th January 2022 and we anticipate that we will be holding our Assessment Day on the week commencing the 7th March 2022

    In the meantime why not take a look at our where you can find out more about us, our various Programmes, the benefits we offer, our Social Value commitments, Wellbeing and Support Services, along with a whole host of other useful information about how you would be part of our Early Careers community here at Amey.

    We hope that you’re excited about this opportunity and a potential career with Amey, but also appreciate that not every role will be suitable for you, so please visit our as we post new roles all the time in different disciplines, locations or areas of our organisation.

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