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**About the Role**:
**Base Location**: Keadby (Scunthorpe), Medway (Rochester), Atwick/ Aldbrough (East Yorkshire)

**Salary**: circa £11,500 plus a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

**Working Pattern**: Permanent| Full Time or Part Time

**About the role**:
Thinking about life after school or perhaps a change in career?? Maybe you enjoy fixing things or prefer being outdoors and doing hands-on practical work? Perhaps you are looking for an opportunity to learn a new skill? This Apprenticeship Programme offers you the chance to earn whilst you learn new skills.

This is a 4-year programme (1st year at a partner college) and remaining 3 years at an SSE Thermal site, with college day release working towards, NVQ, B-Tech and HNC. You will be combining academic study (20%) with work-based experience (80%). You will be trained to repair, test, inspect, calibrate and maintain equipment within the Power Station of your chosen discipline. Once qualified and competent, you will be responsible for supervising other working parties, including contractors.

You will be supported throughout your programme by a wide number of colleagues including mentors, Learning and Talent support staff and business operational colleagues. You will be provided with on the job training and supported by our academic training partners. The majority of our apprentices attend college on a block release basis and can be away from home for short periods of time. You will be supported fully during this time.

By the end of your apprenticeship, you will have formal qualifications and accreditations that will offer you the opportunity to build a rewarding and successful career in the energy sector.? Sustainability underpins everything we do so we believe in making the most of our most valuable assets - our people - and supporting them to be their best.? With a carefully designed development programme, you will have everything you need to progress your SSE career as far as you want to go.

**What do I need?**

We're looking to recruit the best future talent for our sector - and we know that it’s not all about qualifications.?We're more interested in your innate strengths and the qualities you can bring to SSE.? You don't need any experience to apply, you just need to:

- Have an interest in the work we do at SSE
- Have an appreciation of our core values, particularly safety and the desire to do well
- Enjoy working as part of a team
- Be interested in engineering and how things work
- Enjoy working outside and with your hands

**About our Business**

SSE Thermal is on a mission to deliver the flexible energy needed today while powering the transition to net zero. Our 600+ employees play a crucial role in keeping the lights on across the UK and Ireland and we're rising to the low-carbon challenge with our teams at the cutting-edge of vital technologies. We're developing ground-breaking carbon capture and storage projects and progressing plans for what could be the world's first hydrogen-fired power station, as well as a major hydrogen storage facility and exploring other exciting options as we decarbonise. We've already achieved a lot - but we're just getting started. As part of SSE, which is investing £24bn this decade, we're at the forefront of the energy transition - so come join us as we continue to grow and power change.

To find out more, read this blog from Catherine Raw, our Managing Director, on our critical role in delivering net zero.

**What's in it for you?**:
We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**What happens now?**:
As a courtesy, please let your current line manager know you are applying.

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