Summary
Are you ready to live your future? Do you want to be part of building a greener, healthier, and stronger North West? Come and join us! With a range of award-winning roles on offer, you’re sure to find your perfect career here at United Utilities. We’ll provide you with industry-leading skills and experience you need to succeed in your chosen field.
Wage
£19,000 a year
You have a starting salary of £19,000, which will increase each year based on performance
Training course
Water industry treatment process technician (level 3)
Hours
Usually Monday - Friday between 9.00am - 5.00pm.
37 hours a week
Possible start date
Wednesday 3 September
Duration
3 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 an Apprentice Process Controller (Wastewater Treatment), you’ll learn how to:
* Ensure our customers' wastewater is taken care of by learning how to operate and control our wastewater treatment works
* Work as a team to ensure our wastewater treatment works run smoothly and comply with strict health and safety and environmental regulations
* Follow our site procedures and standards to ensure that all the processes that we use are working to their full potential
Where you’ll work
Stockport Wastewater Treatment Works
Heathside Park Road
Cheadle Heath
Stockport
SK3 0PT
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
UNITED UTILITIES WATER 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
Your apprenticeship will last 36 months, and successful apprentices will achieve a Water Industry Treatment Process Technician, Level: 3 (wastewater pathway) standard, endorsed by the Institute for Apprenticeships.
During your first year, you’ll spend one working week out of every month, learning new theory and skills at our technical training centre in Bolton. If you’re from outside of the area, accommodation will be provided for this period, excluding weekends.
More training information
You will need to be mobile in this role, we’ll contribute up to £500 towards driving lessons and tests to help to get you on the road!
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* 5 GCSEs incl. Maths, English & Science/Tech (grade grades A-C or grades 9-4)
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
* Organisation skills
* Problem solving skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Initiative
* Patience
Other requirements
Offers subject to pre-employment checks before your appointment can be confirmed. Any offer of employment with United Utilities will be subject to a satisfactory report from the Disclosure Scotland/ the Disclosure and Barring Service. Please only apply for one apprenticeship. Please note that we are unable to offer Visa sponsorship for this role.