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If you're looking for a fascinating and fulfilling career in transport and technology where you can shape the development of the West Midlands' transport and highway networks, then we'd love to hear from you. This apprenticeship will equip you with the knowledge and skills to become our next generation of traffic signal and technology engineers.
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
This short video gives you an insight into apprenticeships at WMCA.
What you’ll do at work
- Completing the Transport Planning Technician apprenticeship programme.
- Attending three-month rotations within local authority organisations to gain the relevant experience and knowledge in Urban Traffic Control, Network Control Centres, Operations, Maintenance and Design for Traffic Signals.
- Developing your transport planning knowledge to gain an understanding of transport in the West Midlands.
- Addressing a skills shortage area in transport across the West Midlands
Role responsibilities include:
- Assist in the planning, design, implementation or assessment of transport planning and traffic signal solutions. Contribute to the modelling of transport and traffic systems.
- Collect, interpret, and analyse inter-related and often dynamic technical information and data to inform the development of policies, plans, or projects.
- Participate in community, stakeholder engagement and public consultations.
- Use the quality management and assurance systems available to proactively plan and manage tasks which contribute to the delivery of larger programmes of work.
- Undertake the maintenance of asset management databases, ensuring all relevant information is captured and missing data is identified.
- Undertake monitoring of the traffic signal network and where necessary, make interventions to improve traffic flow and ease congestion.
- Carry out as and when necessary, site observation and traffic movement inspections, some of which will be outside normal office hours. This will include site visits working outdoors and working alongside live roads.
- Keep up to date with advances in traffic technology and innovation opportunities.
- Support the operation of Urban Traffic Control systems as and when such systems are operated from the RTCC.
- Provide traffic signal design and review input to support the development of highway schemes.
- Provide traffic signal/network management operations support to the Regional Transport Coordination Centre (RTCC) and KRN (Key Route Network) teams for real time operations and special events.
- Engage with Local Authority and National Highways traffic signal and Urban Traffic Control teams to deliver collaborative working and common operational objectives.
- Represent Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) at factory acceptance testing, pre-commissioning and full site acceptance testing of traffic signal installations, including verifying the operation of all associated equipment and methods of control.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in English, Maths and Science (grade 4+)
Desirable qualifications
- A Level in any subject or equivalent (grade C+)
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Interpersonal skills
Other requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need to be motivated to building a career in this area, technically minded, proactive and self-managed with an eagerness to learn and develop new skills. You will need to manage working away from home and be adaptable to change
Training.
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
Your training course
Transport planning technician (level 3).
Your training plan
The apprenticeship training will be delivered by Leeds College of Building, with residential block release for one week at the start of each semester. You will therefore be required to be away from home for short periods of time.
When you're not studying, you will spend 4 days per week in the West Midlands, working at the West Midlands Combined Authority and on rotation with some of our partners.
Hours
Monday to Thursday, 9.00am to 5.00pm (office or network-based) with Friday as the apprenticeship study day (home-based). There may be some evening or weekend work.
How to apply
For more information and to apply, please click this link: Transport Planning (Traffic Signal Engineering) Apprentice.
