Water Production Technician Apprentice

About the role

This is a challenging and technical role and on completion of your training, you will be skilled and experienced in a range of complex operational tasks.

As a Production Technician, it is your job to operate and maintain the water treatment works, which play a vital role in ensuring that we supply clean and safe water to our customers.

Operating to the highest standards, our treatment works use a range of different technology, chemicals and scientific instruments to produce some of the best drinking water in the world.

In this role, you will gain an in-depth knowledge of the different cleaning processes.

You will learn how to operate specialist water cleaning technology, handle and store chemicals safely, use test and analytical equipment, help detect faults, and problem solve.

What you'll do

Duties will include:

• routine maintenance or monitoring
• responding to alarms
• emergency fault finding
• receiving the delivery of chemicals, ensuring all health and safety procedures are being followed
• dealing with a highly regulated food product (drinking water)
• meeting relevant regulations
• monitoring and record keeping. 

Skills and values we are looking for

• Communication.
• Teamwork.
• IT/digital.
• Attention to detail.
• Organisation.
• Decision making.
• Customer care.
• Safety-focused.
• Problem solving.
• Critical thinking.
• Accurate recording and reporting.
• Numeracy.
• Analytical.
• Initiative.

What you'll need

• GCSEs at grade A-C/4-9 in English and maths.
• An interest in science and mechanics.
• The ability to follow processes and identify changes.
• Confident using computers.
• Happy to work outdoors.