Apprentice Water Network Operative

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

**Where will you be working?**

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team**.** Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

This role will be within our Caledonia Water Alliance contract, working out of Stepps, Glasgow depot.

Want to be a part of it?

**What will you be doing?**
- We’ll teach you how to repair, Install or construct waste water network infrastructure (planned)
- You’ll learn how to interpret utility plans and adhere to safety procedures
- You’ll need to work to deadlines and ensure tasks are complete within programme.
- You’ll be taught to understand and complete method statements and risk assessment
- We’ll show you how to identify any key risks and hazards, and how to report any near misses in line with our health & safety policies and procedures.
- Safety is our licence to operate You’ll champion health and safety standards to ensure a safe working environment.
- We’ll also be teaching you how to perform civil work tasks, such as working in confined spaces and at heights when required

**What you’ll bring**
- Be at least 18 years of age at the time the apprenticeship program commences
- Valid Driving Licence
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Achieved grade 4-9 in English and Maths or be willing to undertake Functional Skills, which is equivalent to GCSE qualifications
- Be able to travel to your depot or work site every day, potentially at unsocial hours
- Be prepared to travel and stay away from home to undertake block release training and development sessions.
- Demonstrate an interest and enthusiasm to work outdoors
- Possess a high degree of manual dexterity demonstrated through the use of hand tools
- As the role involves manual labour, including lifting, bending, and working outdoors in various weather conditions, we’ll need you to have a level of fitness which will allow you to complete tasks safely.
- Effective communication skills
- Keen to learn with an interest in development and progression
- Passionate about the industry
- Hardworking
- Reliable, with excellent attendance and timekeeping
- Ability to use own initiative
- Must have a ‘can do’ attitude

**What’s in it for you?**

**We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;**
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme

**In addition, this role offers;**
- 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more
- Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us
- Standby / Overtime / Call out
- Personal Accident Cover

**About us**

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re **responsible**and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re **open** and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re **together**and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re **ambitious**and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

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