Apprentice Water Supply Production Operator

3 weeks ago


Darlington, United Kingdom Northumbrian WaterEssex & Suffolk Water Full time

Salary
- **£23,088**
- Location
- **Darlington**

**About the role**

**Apprentice Water Treatment Production Operator**

**2 Year Apprenticeship**

**£23,088 starting salary**

**37 hour working week**

**Location: Water Treatment Works in the Darlington area**

**About the role**

We have a great opportunity to join our Water Supply team here at Northumbrian Water, as an Apprentice Water Treatment Production Operator, to help us in ensuring we deliver great high-quality drinking water for our customers. You’ll be based at a Water Treatment Works in one of our Operational Areas (Northumberland, Tyne, Central or Tees).

During the course of the apprenticeship you will complete the Water industry treatment process technician Level 3 qualification (Water industry treatment process technician / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education)

There’s so much more to the production of great quality drinking water than meets the eye and this is a key role at the front of leading our customer satisfaction. There are so many steps in the process of taking raw water from rivers and reservoirs to then treating it and distributing it to our customers.

We are looking for you to develop in to operating the treatment process, we’ll be developing you in to using the site SCADA electronic system to operate and monitor the process along with responding to alarms and alerts. You’ll be developed in adjusting water production volumes to meet customer water demand, while complying with quality parameters. Working with chemicals and validating and calibrating instruments will be key to your role in effectively operating the treatment process. You’ll be using laboratory testing and recording results for regulatory auditing and to support decision making in operating the site.

You’ll be working with the current team to monitor water quality at multiple stages of the treatment process to maintain compliance. You’ll be working with chemicals in the role to ensure we are disinfecting the water effectively to make sure it leaves the site at the right quality.

You’ll be outside a lot of the time wearing Personal Protective Equipment working your way around the site and will be involved in process unit cleaning, along with emptying and cleaning tanks to remove waste material, so it can get messy at times too. There may be times when you need to go between sites, so it would be great if you have a driving licence too.

Who knew there was so much to making our amazing water that comes out of your tap
- This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. _
- Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date._
- Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked_

**About you**

So, what are we looking for from you, well you don’t need to be a water expert, as we will develop you to become just that.

We’re looking for you to be an excellent communicator with a strong focus on health and safety and be highly motivated to learn and develop new skills. Working on a water treatment works, you will have a practical approach and be able to support manual activities moving tools and equipment.

You’ll need to have good IT skills which are essential as well as being able to carry out fault finding investigations to identify issues and optimise performance.

**Start date for the roles is 4th September**

**About us**

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

**Our values**

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.

Our values are:
**Results Driven**
- We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

**Ethical**
- We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

**Customer Focused**
- We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

**Innovative**
- We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

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