Summary
Yorkshire Water offer a comprehensive apprenticeship programme enabling our apprentices to develop their competence to the best of their ability. Our programme includes dedicated mentorship from experts in the field, employability skills sessions, social events along with a dedicated team of Apprenticeship experts monitoring programmes.
Wage
£24,309 a year
Annual incentive related bonus is also offered.
Training course
Water industry treatment process technician (level 3)
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
37 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 8 September
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
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.
Where you’ll work
Loftsome Bridge Water Treatment Works
Wressle
Selby
YO8 6EN
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
WATERTRAIN LIMITED
Your training course
Water industry treatment process technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
* Comply with (water or wastewater) industry regulations and procedures.
* Follow alarm intervention procedures. Resolve alarm issues.
* Inspect (planned) and check assets (reactive) and identify action.
* Follow procedures to remove assets for routine maintenance and recommission.
* Carry out validation or instrument checks of online equipment and identify action.
* Monitor first line maintenance of process control equipment and instrumentation.
* Identify issues. Apply fault-finding and problem-solving techniques: identify root cause. Resolve faults.
* Consider, identify, and promote areas for improvement for example, in relation to quality, cost, time, safety, and impact.
* Interrogate and interpret electronic control systems. For example, HMI or SCADA.
* Use data monitoring and control systems to monitor and control equipment.
* Inspect and check safety equipment: identify and take action.
* Identify and instigate incident escalation procedures.
* Apply site standards for housekeeping.
* Conduct risk assessments: identify and document risks and hazards in the workplace. Apply control measures.
* Comply with health and safety regulations and safe working practices and procedures.
* Follow site security procedures.
* Follow procedures for emergency situations.
* Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and requirements. For example, safe disposal of waste, re-cycling or re-use of materials, and efficient use of resources.
* Apply principles of sustainable development. For example, in choice of materials.
* Conduct and assess impact of activity for example, environmental, cost, reputation, safety, and health. Apply control measures.
* Identify and escalate issues.
* Read and interpret written information. For example, work instructions, and service level agreements.
* Complete work records.
* Use information technology. Follow cyber security procedures. Comply with GDPR.
* Plan tasks. Identify and organise resources to complete work tasks.
* Communicate verbally and in writing. For example, with colleagues, stakeholders, or others. Use water industry terminology where appropriate.
* Liaise with, negotiate with, and handle conflict in individual or group environments.
* Select raw water source or blend of sources.
* Monitor and control water abstraction.
* Monitor and control water chemical dosing procedures.
* Operate water process control equipment and instrumentation.
* Take water samples.
* Analyse and interpret on-site laboratory data and check against water process parameters.
* Monitor and control water treatment processes and performance.
* Monitor and control the effectiveness of disinfection.
* Monitor and control waste stream processes and performance.
* Apply procedures to shut-down, isolate, and re-commission water process streams.
* Monitor and control incoming flows.
* Control internal pumping station operations.
* Operate wastewater process control equipment and instrumentation.
* Take wastewater samples.
* Analyse and interpret on-site testing data and monitoring equipment data and check against wastewater process parameters.
* Monitor and maintain grit removal and screening assets.
* Monitor and control the performance of sedimentation, biological and chemical treatment operations.
* Monitor and control wastewater treatment processes and performance.
* Apply procedures to shut-down, isolate and re-commission wastewater process streams.
* Follow wastewater hygiene personal procedures.
* Comply with (water or wastewater) industry regulations and procedures.
* Follow alarm intervention procedures. Resolve alarm issues.
* Inspect (planned) and check assets (reactive) and identify action.
* Follow procedures to remove assets for routine maintenance and recommission.
* Carry out validation or instrument checks of online equipment and identify action.
* Monitor first line maintenance of process control equipment and instrumentation.
* Identify issues. Apply fault-finding and problem-solving techniques: identify root cause. Resolve faults.
* Consider, identify, and promote areas for improvement for example, in relation to quality, cost, time, safety, and impact.
* Interrogate and interpret electronic control systems. For example, HMI or SCADA.
* Use data monitoring and control systems to monitor and control equipment.
* Inspect and check safety equipment: identify and take action.
* Identify and instigate incident escalation procedures.
* Apply site standards for housekeeping.
* Conduct risk assessments: identify and document risks and hazards in the workplace. Apply control measures.
* Comply with health and safety regulations and safe working practices and procedures.
* Follow site security procedures.
* Follow procedures for emergency situations.
* Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and requirements. For example, safe disposal of waste, re-cycling or re-use of materials, and efficient use of resources.
* Apply principles of sustainable development. For example, in choice of materials.
* Conduct and assess impact of activity for example, environmental, cost, reputation, safety, and health. Apply control measures.
* Identify and escalate issues.
* Read and interpret written information. For example, work instructions, and service level agreements.
* Complete work records.
* Use information technology. Follow cyber security procedures. Comply with GDPR.
* Plan tasks. Identify and organise resources to complete work tasks.
* Communicate verbally and in writing. For example, with colleagues, stakeholders, or others. Use water industry terminology where appropriate.
* Liaise with, negotiate with, and handle conflict in individual or group environments.
Your training plan
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.
More training information
Watertrain are a leading training provider dedicated to the Water Industry. Their tutors are industry experts and take time to understand Yorkshire Water assets.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* English (grade C/4)
* Mathematics (grade C/4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Problem solving skills
* Team working
* Initiative
* Physical fitness
* Driving
Other requirements
Willing and able to work in a confined space which includes keeping calm when under pressure. Full UK driving licence and own method of transport to report to a Clean Water site which are often rural locations is required.