Highways Apprentice

**Job vacancy - Highways Apprentice**

**Property and Asset - REF: P011856**
- **Job title**: Apprentice Highways Operative - 3 Vacancies
- **Service area**: Highways
- **Job ref**: P011856
- **Salary**:from £11,446 (37 hours per week).
- **Applicable to**: External vacancy
- **Closing date**: Midnight Monday 1st May 2023
- **Training Provider**: Derwentside College - Please note you will be expected to travel to this location for your training.

Do you have the potential to grow and be part of a team that strives to deliver excellent services to our customers? Are you ready to seize an opportunity to learn a trade/profession and meet the challenge of an Apprenticeship? If so and you want employment which offers a good salary, then apprenticeships with Gateshead Council are for you.

We are currently looking for enthusiastic people to join our Street Scene Service as Highways Apprentices undertaking a L2 Groundworker Apprenticeship.

As a Highways apprentice, you will develop skills, knowledge, and experience in all aspects of highway construction, projects/schemes & maintenance including working on roads, footpaths, cycle ways and bridges including drainage and fencing etc.

The apprenticeship consists of attending college to gain appropriate trade qualifications and functional skills and doing practical work on site to ensure you gain the skills, knowledge and experience necessary.

No experience is needed but you will need to have an interest in highways construction, be self-motivated with good communication skills, have the ability to work as part of a team and follow instructions and enjoy outdoor manual work.

The post is 37 hours per week, fixed term for 2 years, with the potential for a permanent role.