Area 7 - Highways Maintenance Apprentice - Sandiacre

About the role

Highway Maintenance Operative 👷‍♀️🚧

Are you ready to get hands-on and make a real difference in your community? We're looking for motivated individuals to join our team and help keep our roads safe and looking their best!

What you'll be doing:

• Carrying out regular and scheduled maintenance to keep things running smoothly.
• Tackling small civil projects, looking after drainage, and patching up roads.
• Keeping up top technical skills and joining project meetings to stay in the loop.
• Driving and operating a range of vehicles and plant, both general and specialised.
• Performing essential vehicle checks before each shift – oil, water, cleaning, and spotting any issues.
• Getting involved in all sorts of highway maintenance, from litter picking to winter gritting and emergency call-outs.
• Being a safety champion! Looking after yourself and your team, following health and safety rules, and keeping the public safe.
• Accurately logging your hours, time, and how resources are used.
• Keeping records, filling out paperwork, and chatting with colleagues, subcontractors, emergency services, police, and the public.

Key Skills & Attributes:

• A strong commitment to safety and looking out for others.
• Ability to follow instructions and work as part of a team.
• Willingness to learn and develop new skills.
• Good communication and record-keeping abilities.
• Comfortable working outdoors in various weather conditions.

If you're up for a challenging and rewarding role where you can see the impact of your work every day, we want to hear from you! Join Amey and help build better communities. 🏡✨

Key responsibilities

• Carry out routine and cyclic maintenance activities.
• Undertake minor civil works, drainage works and carriageway patching.
• Drive and operate vehicles and plant.
• Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation.
• Accurately record information and complete necessary paperwork.