Highways Planning Apprentice

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Highways Planning Apprentice to join Amey’s Area 7 Team.

Starting salary: £23, 097 (subject to 2025 review)

Shift pattern: Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

Location: Sandiacre, Notingham, NG10 5ND

Start date: April 2025

Shape tomorrow’s world with Amey

With over 100 years of experience in managing critical infrastructure, we are committed to helping our clients operate efficient, safe and sustainable assets and infrastructure that people can be proud of. And we understand just how challenging it is, especially in the face of cost constraints and climate change.

Amey Transport Infrastructure stands as a beacon of engineering excellence in the UK, committed to inspiring change and enhancing the nation’s critical infrastructure. Join us to create a lasting, sustainable impact on society and future generations.

Why Choose Amey?

• Real Responsibilities: Dive into challenging projects from day one, working alongside experienced engineers on cutting-edge infrastructure designs.
• Career Development: Tailored career paths that grow with you, supported by mentors and a strong peer network.
• Generous Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, pension scheme, minimum 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, and flexible benefits like cycle-to-work and gym membership.
• Social Impact: Two Social Impact Days annually for volunteering and opportunities to support community initiatives.
• Wellbeing Focus: Access to mental health support, a 24/7 helpline, and wellbeing resources because your health matters.
• Modern Perks: Discounts on shopping, healthcare benefits, and more through our online voucher portal

The Team and Role

Amey is working in partnership with National Highways since 2016. We maintain over 700 kilometres providing maintenance and response across a vast area of some of the UK's busiest motorways and strategic highways in the East Midlands and north of England. As many as 180,000 vehicles a day use certain sections of this vital network. Our team of 200+ provide vital maintenance and respond to incidents to keep the travelling public moving ensuring the 4.5 million citizens across the East Midlands experience better and safer journeys every day.

As a Highways Planning Apprentice, your overall objective of this role is to ensure the effective delivery and maintenance of infrastructure services within Area 7.

As an Apprentice, you will work alongside the team to:

• Assist in the development and management of all relevant programmes
• Track progress, incorporate changes and forecast delivery dates
• Assist in the preparation of periodic reports, statistics, and answers to enquiries concerning the programmes
• Ensure high standards of programming are carried out to meet client and contract requirements
• Develop and improve working practices and seek innovative solutions
• Receive and process works orders, and work with internal teams to prepare sites for programming
• Assist with resource programming, to ensure that work can be released for delivery on site
• Allocation of works orders for Pre-Site Inspection, programming or return to client for further information
• Deliver and continuously improve service levels
• Maximise the productivity of the resources through reduction in wasted time, materials and operational cost
• Review works orders for compliance with SLA/Contract compliance
• Liaison with works order generator in case of queries
• Co-ordinate labour, plant, materials, supply chain, permits, risk assessments, safety compliance, traffic management, with others where appropriate
• Any other duties deemed necessary by the Senior Planner, or the wider business.

Where Could This lead?

Our Apprenticeship Programme is designed to be rewarding, nurturing your professional development and personal growth.

Successfully completing the programme will propel you to a qualified Highways Planning Technician within Amey, paving the way for a career into a management role.

What We Need From You

• England-based applicants will typically require at least 5 GCSEs at Grades A*-C / 9-4 including Maths (Grade B / 5 or 6), English, and Science or their equivalent. Applicants based in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland should expect to demonstrate an equivalent level of academic qualifications to those required in England.
• A Full UK driving License

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview, if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional application support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!  We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date should we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.