Apprenticeship training course

Lead traffic management operative (level 2)

To coordinate, install, maintain and remove TTM equipment and systems.

• Qualification level: 2 ; Equivalent to GCSE.
• Typical duration: 18 months
• Apprenticeship category: Construction and the built environment
• Maximum funding: £8,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Skills:
  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.

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