Level 2 - Technical Occupation

  Mid Green occupation

Construction and the built environment

Highway electrical maintenance and installation operative

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Installing and servicing electrical support structures, equipment and systems on roads and motorways.

Summary

A Highway Electrical Maintenance and Installation Operative is a multi-skilled operative able to carry out both the installation of equipment (e.g. street lighting columns, traffic signal poles) and the maintenance of that equipment (e.g. correcting faul ts when equipment is non-operational, changing lamps upon or close to failure). There are many sub-sectors within the highways electrics sector – e.g. street lighting, traffic signals, safety cameras, and highway communications. Each uses different equipment and processes, and the apprentice will choose one of these depending on the specialism of their employer. The general duties, skills, competencies and behaviours are common across the sub-sectors but the detail and application is sub-sector specific depending on the sub-sectors chosen (e.g. the installation of traffic signal poles is different to the installation of lighting columns, but the principles of safe excavation and safe working are common)

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Knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs)

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Behaviours