Apprentice Process Engineer

As our Process Engineer Apprentice, you will learn to develop competence in:

·       Ensuring compliance with water quality standards including carrying out laboratory checks, taking several water samples at a variety of stages of the process.

·       General site maintenance such as checking fire alarms, carrying out site walk arounds to identify and report hazards. Maintaining site hygiene routines and ensuring the site is accessible and ready to receive delivery of products relevant to the process.

·       Ensuring the site has the right number of products in place for the process and ordering stock. Wearing the correct PPE and carrying out tanker checks when products are being delivered.

·       Leading site operational and maintenance activities, water samples, cleaning instruments to achieve effective asset control and performance in order to maintain our regulatory requirements and provide wholesome water to the customers of Yorkshire.

·       Assisting with optimisation activities and sharing best practice, ensuring that service outage is minimised at all times. Managing asset failure, operational recovery from the field and support cost information monitoring. This includes observing the I.T. systems that we use to monitor the process, understanding and actioning alarms and carrying out problem solving techniques to overcome issues.

·       Working alongside other technical experts such as Mechanical Engineers to service, maintain and fix assets.

·       Working as part of a team to ensure that Water demand is provided to our customers, this includes immediate team members, line managers and colleagues from other areas of the business.

·       Building your skills and competence as part of gaining your licence to operate post your apprenticeship.

·       Developing some core skills that also impact other elements of your life including health and safety training, First Aid training, decision making and manual handling.

·       Ensuring compliance with Regulatory and Statutory requirements such as Health, Safety & Environment, Water Quality Requirements (DWI) and the Environment Agency are always followed.

Training:

Watertrain deliver the apprenticeship to Yorkshire Water candidates on a cohort basis at Yorkshire Water Academy sites on a block release basis. This includes 3 consequtive days every month to 6 weeks. 

Training Outcome:

The Process Engineering Apprenticeship has it's own progression plan which is incentivised through pay progression. Progression could lead to Management within Water Services. 

Employer Description:
Our Funded Learning team work closely with teams across the business to offer as many quality opportunities as possible to support the building of knowledge, skills and behaviours for our learners to use in the workplace. Each apprentice will benefit from a support network including former apprentices who have been on similar journeys and a central support team who will make sure your training provider delivers a quality programme. Complemented by employability workshops, experiential team building sessions and social activities, our apprentice remain strong as a cohort throughout their career at Yorkshire Water.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday 37 hours per week, typical hours are 8am to 4pm Please note that upon completion of the apprenticeship hours of work include unsociable working patterns

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Problem solving skills,Team working,Initiative,Physical fitness,Driving