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Requisition ID:  13757
Posted date:  13 Jan 2026

Highways Apprentice

Team: Highways

Job Family: Providing - CBG2

Salary: £24,413 per annum pro rata

Hours: 37 hours per week full time

Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.

Contract Type:  Hybrid - Fixed Term (3 years)

Closing Date: 1st February 2026

Interview Date: W/C 9th February 2026

 

About the role:

Are you looking for a hands-on apprenticeship where you can learn, earn, and make a real difference to your local area? Central Bedfordshire Council is offering an exciting opportunity for an Apprentice to join our Highways Team and begin a rewarding career in civil engineering.

 

We believe apprentices bring fresh ideas, enthusiasm, and innovation. To help you build a strong foundation, we rotate apprentices every six months across different highway disciplines, giving you wide-ranging experience in areas such as:

  • Road and footway maintenance

  • Drainage and structures

  • Road resurfacing and reactive maintenance

  • Traffic and transport improvement schemes

  • Development control

 

You won’t just be observing – you’ll be actively involved. From visiting sites to contributing to projects from start to finish, you’ll have the chance to apply what you learn, develop your technical skills, and see your work make a visible impact.

 

The apprenticeship pathway you will be completing will be working towards a Civil Engineering Technician Level 3 qualification. This is a 3 year course set to begin in April 2026 in partnership with Cambridge Regional College. Throughout term time, you will attend Cambridge Regional College in person once per week to support your studies. Additionally your role and work within our Highways Team will align with and support your coursework.

 

About You:

You must be keen and enthusiastic, literate and numerate. Engineers need to be able to communicate technical projects to other professionals and non-technical audiences.

 

To be eligible for this role, you must be an employee of Central Bedfordshire Council by the start of the college course in the week commencing 13 April 2026. All pre-employment checks must be successfully completed prior to this date. You must also be able to travel to and from the college independently.

 

This position will be based at our Highways Depot at Thorn Turn, Houghton Regis, although there will be opportunity for flexible working from home and from other council offices.  This is an exciting time to work in the council’s Highways Service, if you would like to help make Central Bedfordshire a great place to live and work, we would like to hear from you.

 

Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer.  We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.

 

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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in thisRecruitment Pack

 

Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.

 

  

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Matthew Simkus, Principal Customer Intelligence Officer, at matthew.simkus@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or on 0300 300 6392

 

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