Address
SalaryJob Details
Maintenance Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship
Elevate Your Future: Spark Your Career Journey as a Maintenance Technician Apprentice!
Water Recycling is at the heart of our operations. Our Water Recycling sites need to operate correctly and reliably to collect and treat the water that customers have used, before safely returning it to the environment. Our Maintenance Technicians are key to this process, ensuring that maintenance and repairs are carried out effectively and efficiently on our assets at our water recycling sites.
We are looking for enthusiastic talent to train as a multi-skilled technician in mechanical and electrical engineering and join our Water Recycling Services maintenance team as a Maintenance Technician Apprentice! Whether you are looking to kick start your career, seeking a new challenge or considering a career change, we have opportunities for all! In this 4-year apprenticeship, you'll undergo a comprehensive training program, blending classroom study and on-the-job training, with the ultimate goal of becoming a fully qualified Maintenance Technician.
What’s in it for you?
- A nationally recognised qualification - Level 3 Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician
- A full-time job at the end of your apprenticeship (subject to performance and behavioural reviews)
- 23 days annual leave – rising with length of service (plus the choice to buy & sell leave)
- Company Pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 12% employer contribution
- Personal private health care
- Fully expensed accommodation close to the training centre
- Fully expensed tools, uniform, and PPE tailored to your personal needs
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle, and an extensive range of retail discounts
Your role as a Maintenance Technician Apprentice:
Working to become a fully qualified Maintenance Technician, you will work alongside colleagues to build on your knowledge to report on both failing and failed assets and work to diagnose faults. This will involve completing jobs that are already scheduled and responding to incidents that come up unexpectedly. You’ll be passionate about problem solving; utilising your training to determine and carry out the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions. You’ll regularly monitor the performance of our assets using IT systems, and work to improve our assets to ensure they are working at optimum performance.
Upon being fully qualified, this role operates a standby shift on a rolling pattern which you would be expected to complete up to 2 standby shifts a week.
Your journey: Embark on this 4-year adventure of training and learning, meeting new peers with other new apprentices. You will spend 80% of your time at your work base, getting to know your new team with onsite training. You will spend the other 20% of your time in the classroom learning fundamental skills to equip you with the knowledge needed to be successful in your role.
To be successful as an Anglian Water Apprentice you will require:
- 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English Grade A-C or 9-4 (if you have not completed your GCSE’s we will accept predicted grades. We also accept Level 2 Functional Skills)
- A desire to learn while working in a practical environment
- Willingness to work outdoors in all weathers
- A passion for problem solving, willingness to learn and delivering exceptional customer service
As well as the above, you will need a full UK driving licence. If you do not currently have this, you are required to hold a full UK driving licence prior to the completion of year 4 of the training programme. You will also need to live within the circumference of the area that the role will cover.
This position is deemed a safety critical role with safety being our number one priority. Pre-employment drug and alcohol screening will be taken
About Anglian Water
Anglian Water is the largest water and water recycling company in England and Wales by geographic area. We supply water and water recycling services to almost seven million people in the East of England and Hartlepool.
Community Volunteering
Our business is at the heart of your community, and the majority of our employees live locally too. That’s why we support volunteering.
Many of our employees support local good causes in their spare time and our Love to Help volunteering programme supports their efforts, ensuring they can continue to make our communities great places to live and work.
Addressing Climate Change
Here at Anglian Water, we never stop looking for ways to reduce our carbon emissions, and we're on track to generate 45% of our energy from our own renewable sources by 2025 and become a fully net zero carbon business by 2030.
Our Pledge
Managing and reducing emissions by installing monitoring equipment at four large Anglian Water sites to inform our plan on achieving net zero emissions by 2030
Decarbonising our electricity supply, vehicle fleet, as well as focusing on procuring green electricity
Removing or offsetting our residual emissions by planting 50 hectares of woodland on Anglian Water sites, exploring nature-based opportunities using wetlands, marshes and grasslands and working with landowners to develop land management schemes that avoid and remove emissions.
Supporting and Protecting Wildlife
We support and protect wildlife because it’s simply the right thing to. We’re pioneers in conservation, restless in our pursuit of restoring and enhancing our wild places for future generations to enjoy and explore.
RiverCare & BeachCare
Partnering with Keep Britain Tidy we have over 50 RiverCare and BeachCare groups up and down the region conserving our waterways by removing invasive species, enhancing biodiversity, and spotting and reporting pollutions, making our rivers the best they can be.
How to apply
To apply for this programme and to find out more, please click on the apply button below.
Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.
