Apprentice Process Engineer -Dales

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 Process Engineer Apprentice to join the Water Service Delivery Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of a team that operates our water treatment plants providing clean water for 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
• Life Insurance: 4 times pensionable salary
• 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.

The successful candidate will cover the whole of the Dales area including Thornton Steward Water Treatment Works.

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.

Water Production is a close-knit dynamic environment, where water is continuously treated across the 50 Water Treatment Works, to produce clean and safe drinking water to our valued customers. Water Treatment Works are large manufacturing facilities both with indoor and outside areas, using different chemicals and processes taking water from reservoir, rivers, springs and boreholes and treating it to drinking water, using lots of mechanical and electrical equipment.

This is an operational role rather than a design or supervisory type Engineer role.

• Run and maintain Water Treatment Works, including cleaning and calibrating instrumentation, completing water quality laboratory checks, fault finding and diagnosing treatment issues, integrating trend data, cleaning process tanks, working with electrical and mechanical colleagues to resolve faults, and accepting chemical deliveries.
• Take care of chemical optimisation activities to keep cost per unit and site outage to a minimum; assist with on-site asset failure resolution and operational recovery.
• Perform general site maintenance such as checking fire alarms, carrying out site and security walk‑arounds, implementing mitigation and ensuring barriers and cones are in place.
• Support with reviewing risk assessments and method statements, controlling hazards, working to safety procedures and putting mitigation in place.
• Ensure the site has the right number of products in place for the process and ordering stock; wear correct PPE and carry out tanker checks.
• Work as part of a team to ensure water demand is met.
• Build skills and competence to safely and confidently operate a WTW after the…