Apprentice Operative

**Contract: Cheshire East Highways**

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**Location: Congleton**

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**Contract Type: Permanent**

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**This role involves working within the maintenance team on the Cheshire East Highways contract delivering essential maintenance work as part of a team.**

**The Role**

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- **To complete a two-year apprenticeship course in construction highways maintenance**:

- **To undertake highway specific training courses as appropriate to ensure compliance**:

- **Work as part of the highway maintenance operational team.**:

- **Learn and carry out a variety of tasks across highway maintenance; including but not limited to, carriageway and footway works.**:

- **Understand and follow work procedures to ensure own safety and safety of others**:

- **Receive daily briefings and understand risks and control measures required for the task**:

- **Assist with recording work activities using hand-held devices**:

- **To work alongside an experienced team to ensure that works are completed to the required standard and within required timescales.**

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**Job Description***

**About You**

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- **Functional Skills (Level 2 / GCSE) in English and Maths are NOT essential, but will be required prior to completion of the apprenticeship**:

- **Basic understanding of health and safety requirements**:

- **Ability to deal effectively with peers, client representatives and the general public.**:

- **Understands and behaves safely and encourages others to behave safely.**:

- **Ability to work as part of a team**

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**Benefits**

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**At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.**

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**In return for your hard work you will receive**:

- **Sick Pay**:

- **Competitive salary**:

- **Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave**:

- **A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc**:

- **Life Assurance**:

- **Employee Assistance Programme**:

- **Pension scheme
**The Company**

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**We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.**

**Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.**

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**We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.
**Please click on the following link for more information on this role**:Job Description