Reservoir Engineering Apprentice

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join our apprenticeship programme here at Yorkshire Water

We have an exciting opportunity for an Apprentice Reservoir Engineer to join the Water Service Delivery Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers.
Could this be you?

• Salary: £24,309 per annum
• Extras: Annual incentive bonus, 25 days holiday +bank holidays and wellness day
• Pension: Up to 10% Company contribution
• Work type: Permanent: 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.
• A great benefits package: choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

• Carefully selected training providers to deliver the specialist knowledge related to your role.
• A mentor who is an expert in your field to support you through your apprenticeship.
• Access to the Funded Learning Team who provide specialist support to you throughout your apprenticeship journey.
• Development opportunities in line with the apprenticeship progression plan along with additional extracurricular activities to enhance your employability skills and personal brand.

Location: The successful candidate will cover the West Yorkshire area including Longwood Water Treatment Works, Huddersfield.

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Our People team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

We are currently looking for a Reservoir Engineering Apprentices to join our Raw Water teams who will manage workload and resources to efficiently operate Raw Water assets. You will have ownership and responsibility for the output and performance of Raw Water assets, ensuring delivery of service, compliance and value targets. You will ensure water is always delivered to the right quality and quantity at the right time, providing a customer service experience that is second to none.

As a Reservoir Engineering Apprentice you will be focussing on carrying out Operational Inspections on our Reservoirs and Raw Water Aqueducts to ensure 100% compliance. This includes:

• Health and Safety Perimeter checks of our reservoirs to ensure everything safe and secure for our customer and Teams
• Monitoring downstream flows from our reservoirs to ensure they are not causing any Environmental impact, or any Health & Safety risks,
• Communicating, helping and offering guidance to our customers and tenants.
• Carrying out maintenance activities such as vegetation removal from our assets using various small plant equipment, which you will be trained on, such as Excavators, ATV Gators and many more
• Carry out maintenance repairs on perimeter fencing and stone walling, learning new skills that can be used anywhere.
• Work closely with our Reservoir Safety Supervisors on checking the civils of our reservoirs, which includes going 20-40 metres down inside our reservoirs for inspections, which is a fantastic opportunity that only a selected few are allowed to do.
• Of course, all this involves working outdoors at some of the most beautiful places in Yorkshire, plenty of…