Kickstart your career in civil engineering with Cheshire East Highways!
We’re offering three exciting Civil Engineering Degree Apprenticeships where you’ll work across Design, Construction, Flood Risk, and Structures teams. Over five years, you’ll gain hands-on experience, earn a Level 6 Civil Engineering qualification, and attend classes at a local university.
As an apprentice, you’ll support engineers in designing and delivering highway, civil engineering, and traffic management projects, with budgets up to £5 million. Successful completion leads to a permanent role and career growth with Ringway Jacobs.
The Role
1. Assist in the repair and maintenance of carriageways and footways, ensuring all work is accurately recorded using hand-held devices.
2. Understand and follow health and safety procedures to ensure your own safety and the safety of others.
3. Learn how to operate equipment and tools safely.
4. Collaborate with colleagues to ensure works are completed on time and to standard.
5. Undertake highways specific training courses as appropriate to ensure understanding and compliance.
Minimum Requirements
1. Formal qualifications are not required to be enrolled onto the apprenticeship, however you must achieve level 1 in Maths and English before the end point assessment and take the test for level 2, or provide a certificate of equivalent prior achievement such as GCSEs.
2. Basic understanding of health and safety requirements.
3. Regular travel to college.
4. Understand and demonstrate safe working practices and encourage others to do the same.
5. Willingness to learn and seek opportunities to develop skills.
Candidates who haven’t received their final results by the date of the assessment centre are still encouraged to apply as this can be discussed with hiring managers.
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.
Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.
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
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.
If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on careers@ringwayjacobs.com, or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
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.
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