Apprenticeship training course
Lead traffic management operative (level 2)
To coordinate, install, maintain and remove TTM equipment and systems.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 18 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£8,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Comply with health and safety regulations.
- Follows safe systems of work including carrying out static and dynamic risk assessments.
- Carry out operator maintenance and minor repair, checks and configuration requirements to TTM vehicles within limits of responsibility, escalating defects. For example: impact protection vehicle (IPV), traffic management installation vehicle, traffic management maintenance vehicle, traffic management airlock or closure point vehicle or traffic management convoy vehicle.
- Carry out operator maintenance and minor repair, checks and configuration requirements to TTM plant within limits of responsibility, escalating defects. For example: mobile lane closure signs & trailers, temporary traffic light units, ROBO stop and go signs, portable variable message signs or portable tower lights.
- Move, handle and store TTM equipment and systems.
- Load, unload and secure TTM equipment and systems to and from vehicles or plant.
- Select and use TTM PPE.
- Interpret traffic management layouts, design and technical specifications.
- Select and prepare TTM equipment and systems.
- Plan for and organise installation.
- Inspect, maintain, repair and replace TTM equipment and systems.
- Operate and guide plant and vehicles to create safe working zones within limits of responsibility.
- Install, position, secure and remove TTM equipment and systems tailored to the road type, without disadvantaging those with mobility and sensory impairment.
- Apply digital TTM technologies to a TTM system. For example, incursion warning systems, automated traffic signal controls, variable message signs or tablet-based work management systems.
- Respond to and contain emergencies including traffic accidents and vulnerable persons in crisis and seek support of formal responders.
- Restore the carriageway to a safe condition.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Communicate with others verbally: internal and external customers, colleagues and managers.
- Complete task documentation, paper-based or digital.
- Applies team working principles.
Full information on Lead traffic management operative (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.