Apprentice Process Engineer

Company Description

Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to joinour apprenticeship programmehere at Yorkshire Water

We have an exciting opportunity for an Process Engineer?

Apprentice?to join the?

Water Service Delivery?

Team?at Yorkshire Water and be a part of?a team thatoperatesour water treatment plants providing clean water for our customers.?

Could this be you?

• Salary:£24,309per annum
• Extras:
  
  Annual incentive bonus, 25 days holiday +bank holidays and wellness day
• Pension:
  Up to 12% Company contribution
• Life Insurance:4 times pensionable salary
• Work type:
  Permanent:37 hours per week, Monday Friday.
• A great benefits package:choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assuranceflexand partner cover. Retail savings scheme and online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discountsand many more!

• Carefully selected training providers to deliver the specialist knowledge related to your role.
• A mentor who is an expert in your field to support you through your apprenticeship.
• Access to the Funded Learning Team who provide specialist support to you throughout your apprenticeship journey.
• Development opportunities in line with theapprenticeshipprogression planalong withadditionalextracurricular activities to enhance your employability skills and personal brand.

Thesucessfulcandidate will be cover the whole of theLeedsareaincluding Eccup Water  Treatment Works.

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us,itsso much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshires water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the regions health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

Our People teamare a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

Water Production is a close-knit dynamic environment, where water is continuously treated across the 50 Water Treatment Works,to produce clean and safe drinking water to our valued customers. Water Treatment Works are large manufacturing facilities both with indoor and outside areas, using different chemicals and processes taking water from reservoir, rivers, springs and boreholes and treating it to drinking water, using lots of mechanical and electrical equipment.

This is an operational role rather than a design or supervisory type Engineer role.

• Be responsible for learning how to runa number of Water Treatment Worksin your area, taking care of and completing operational and plant maintenance activities to providesafedrinking wateron tap every dayto our customers. Tasksconsist of a proactive planned workbasketincluding, cleaning and calibrating instrumentation, completing Water Quality laboratory checks, fault finding and diagnoses of treatment issues, integrating trend data, cleaning of process tanks, working with electrical and mechanical colleagues to resolve faults and accepting chemical deliveries, changing pump duties,inspecting pipework and bunds,completing borehole level checks,all to ensure compliance with water quality standards, environmental regulations and ensure health and safety, and process safety is achieved and managed across allWTWsin your area.
• As a key element of our role, you willbe trained totake careofchemicaloptimisation activities to ensurecostper unit and siteoutageis kept to a minimum. You willlearn about andassistwithon siteassetfailure resolution and operational recovery both on site and via monitoring technology.
• General site maintenance such as checking fire alarms, carrying out site?and securitywalk?arounds to?identify?and report hazards, implementingmitigationand ensuring barriers and cones are in place. Maintaining site hygiene routines and ensuring the sitehouse keepingismaintainedto a high standard ensuring the siteis accessible and ready to receive?delivery of products relevant to?the processandmaintaining.
• Support with reviewing risk assessments and method statement, controlling hazards, working to safetyproceduresand putting mitigation in place to ensure personal safety and meet statutory requirements
• Ensuring the site has the right?number?of products in place for the process and…