Apprentice Environmental Practitioner

**ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTITIONER APPRENTICE**

**LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT**

**Taking care of ‘one of life’s essentials’ - it’**s our purpose and we want you to be part of it. Supplying wholesome drinking water, treating wastewater and recycling this back to the environment responsibly is no mean feat. We serve around 8 million people across the Midlands and Wales and unlike other businesses, our delivery is non-negotiable. It’s a matter of life.**

**Many of our employees are also our customers, so we truly** take pride in what we do Employing people from across our communities and beyond, Severn Trent is an exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be curious, can be ‘Wonderfully You’ and where you can truly make an impact to our environment, now and for future generations.**

**LET’S TELL YOU MORE**

Apprenticeship Programmes are a great way to earn and learn Our Apprentice Environmental Practitioner Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the core of our business. Entering an Apprenticeship scheme with us involves working towards the role of a fully-fledged professional, earning a salary, whilst also being able to maintain a sense of academic achievement. At Severn Trent we provide the perfect mix between hands-on experience and a formal qualification, enabling our apprentices to make a real lasting difference to our customers and communities, not just for now, but far into the future.

You’ll be supported every step of the way, by your line manager and mentor.

You will be working within either our **Biodiversity and Ecology** team or **Environmental Regulation** team in Customer Operations, or our **Asset Planning** team in Chief Engineer.

**Biodiversity and Ecology - **Raynesway, Derby, Derbyshire DE21 7BE**

Within our Biodiversity and Ecology team you will help us to promote and protect the natural environment we work in and the challenges and opportunities that brings. In your daily work, you interact with junior and senior members of your team, as well as external partners and stakeholders. With a balance of office and field visits, you’ll work with technical specialists both within and beyond your profession, for example, environmental scientists and consultants, environmental impact assessors, and ecologists.

**Environmental Regulation - **Severn Trent Centre, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 2LZ**

In our Environmental Regulation team you will be at the forefront of protecting the environment each and everyday. This will mean understanding how the design and build of new assets translates into operations and ensuring we are identifying emerging environmental issues. You will receive a background into regulation within a practical setting with opportunities across the whole water cycle.

**Asset Planning - **Raynesway, Derby, Derbyshire DE21 7BE**

Within Asset Planning in Chief Engineer you would be working on the capital programme to improve river health. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to learn new skills on your journey to becoming an expert hydraulic modeller, working with water quality specialists to determine what solution is required to meet an obligation and our fair share in removing harm due to intermittent discharges of overflows. You will be helping to coordinate surveys and getting out and about attending site visits to help in your understanding of our asset performance and our impacts on the environment.

**HOW WILL THE PROGRAMME WORK**

**Standard**

Environmental Practitioner (Degree)

**Website
**Apprenticeship Duration**

53 months (Excluding EPA)

**Apprenticeship Level**

Level 6

**Location**
- Raynesway, Derby, Derbyshire DE21 7BE
- Severn Trent Centre, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 2LZ

**Salary
**£17,194

**Provider/ F2F or Online
**Keele University / F2F**

**ENTRY CRITERIA**

**DRIVING LICENCE/TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS**

You must have a full driving licence with access to your own vehicle at the time of starting the apprenticeship.

**ROLE EXPECTATIONS POST APPRENTICESHIP**

By the end of this programme, you will either take up a role as an Environmental Scientist, Assistant Asset Engineer, Assistant Modeller or an Environmental Permits Technician working within our Asset Planning, Biodiversity, Ecology or Environmental Practitioner teams, where you will be able to put your skills to action.

**WHAT WILL YOU LEARN**
- This apprenticeship operates to teach you how to promote sustainable growth whilst maintaining responsibilities to our environment.
- In order to limit pollution, you will take action to use less resources and produce less waste.
- You will combine a high level of knowledge and understanding of environmental principles and techniques to complex environmental systems.
- You will work towards making our company eco-friendly through minimising pollutive outputs.

**WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR**

We want our employees to care and to have a genuine passion for what we do