Modern Apprentice Roadworker

**Job title**:Modern Apprentice - Roadworker

**Salary**:£22,366 per annum

**Hours per week**:37

**Contract type**:Initial three year period with the possibility of extension

**Location of post**:Service Response Centre / Quays

**Benefits**
- 25 days holiday entitlement, rising to 32 after 5 years’ service
- 8 bank holidays plus one extra statutory day
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Hybrid Working (for some roles)
- See our ‘Reasons to work for NPT’ document in the attachments

**Main purpose of the post**

To achieve a **Level 3** **City & Guilds** (**Construction) - Civil Operations - (Groundworks) **Qualification through hands on work experience within the Authority’s Highways and Drainage Services section and by attending a nominated technical college course on a one-day per week basis.

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Develop academic and practical skills by regularly attending approved technical training establishments as stipulated in the apprenticeship contract, and undertaking other skills training.
- Assisting with the erection, cleaning, fixing and dismantling of non-electrical street furniture and signs.
- Planting, turfing, soiling and seeding.
- Operation of powered plant and equipment once qualified.
- General labouring work in relation to highway maintenance and construction.
- Working in trenches and other open excavations including drainage and ducting work.
- Understanding and assisting the placing and removal of signs and barriers for the safety of the workforce and general public.
- Debris and litter removal as required.
- Advising supervisors of progress when required.
- Completing and understanding the skilled areas of work under supervision as part of training and development.
- Ensuring the quality of all work completed is to the required standard.
- Ensuring that material usage is kept to a minimum consistent with the required quality and assist in keeping plant and equipment in good order.
- Ensuring that all possible care is taken to minimise the risk of damage to underground cables and plant when competent.
- The timely completion of all necessary paperwork.
- Ensuring Health & Safety at Work policies are strictly adhered to.

**Welsh language**:Welsh language skills are not required

**DBS requirement**:There is no requirement for a DBS check for this post.

**Job Type**: Apprenticeship

**Salary**: From £22,366.00 per year

Work Location: In person