About The Role
Apprentice Electrical Maintenance Technician
Working hours: Full time with day/block release study at college
4 years Apprenticeship starting September 2025
Salary: £24,242 per year, Salary progression for specialist technical modules once apprenticeship is complete.
Location: Howdon, Wallsend, North Tyneside
Thinking about life after school or college or perhaps a change in career? Maybe you enjoy fixing things or prefer being outdoors or doing hands-on practical work? Are you looking for an opportunity to learn a new skill? We're launching our Electrical Maintenance apprenticeship programme to support our teams across our regions to keep the water and wastewater flowing to our customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to join NWG and really kick start your career!
What Will You Be Doing?
Our Maintenance Apprenticeship Programme offers you the chance to earn whilst you learn new skills and gain valuable work experience and qualifications. You'll be provided with the opportunity to achieve a Level 3 Maintenance and Engineering Operations Apprenticeship over the four years of the apprenticeship.
You’ll be developing the skills and experience needed to take responsibility for our equipment, ensuring it's maintained to a high standard to serve our local communities. With no two days the same, whether the work is planned to prevent a problem or to fix something when it goes wrong, you’ll keep our services running smoothly.
The training will involve a combination of day/block release study at college learning about mechanical and/or electrical maintenance, where you’ll be studying towards a Diploma in engineering theory. The remaining time will be spent putting your skills into practice and working closely with our Maintenance Technicians on our sites to gain on-the-job experience and build your portfolio.
Your development is just as important to us as it is to you, and you may be given the opportunity to study for a Higher National Certificate (HNC) if you are performing well, and we’ll support you to attain professional registration with the IET through your apprenticeship.
We’ll give you all the tools for the job including uniform, PPE, and a company van. Once you are fully trained, you will take part in a standby rota, which you will be paid additionally for.
Many of our apprentices go on to roles such as Maintenance Team Leader, Technical Planner, and Reliability Engineer.
About You
We are looking for you to be passionate and interested in the work that we do, with an appreciation of our core values, particularly safety and the desire to do well. You’ll have a can-do attitude, be willing to work outdoors in all weathers, and a passion for fixing things would be great too. You’ll have a passion for learning new things, able to take learnings from the education side of the apprenticeship and put them into practice on the job.
After a year or so with the company, you will be given a van, so you will need a full UK driving licence. Don't worry if you don't have a driving licence just yet, as long as you intend and commit to learn to drive, you're fine to apply!
To meet the college requirements, we are looking for a minimum of 5 GCSEs grade C or grade 4 which must include Maths, English, and a Science or Engineering Technical subject.
Dates For Your Diary
Part of the recruitment process will be for you to attend a Candidate Assessment Centre in Durham, anticipated to be held in March 2025. We are looking for successful candidates to commence their apprenticeship with us in September 2025, or potentially sooner.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work. Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM), and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversations that improve our organisational awareness, understanding, and inclusivity.
We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.
Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment.
NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however, consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all our colleagues, suppliers, customers, and third parties.
About Us
Here at NWG, we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers. We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.
Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do, and how we do it.
Our Values Are:
1. Results Driven: We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.
2. Ethical: We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.
3. Customer Focused: We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.
4. Innovative: We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.
5. One Team: We work together consistently, promoting cooperation, to achieve our corporate objectives.
Colleague Benefits
We’re the great company we are because of you, our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.
To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.
* Eyecare
* Discounted Medicals
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Cycle2work
* Buying & selling annual leave
* Long service awards
* Salary sacrifice car scheme
* Computer Loans
* Award-winning wellbeing site
* NWG savings scheme
* Company pension scheme
* Pre-retirement workshops
* Life assurance
* Christmas savings club
* Discounts & cashback offers
* Qualification loan
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