Apprentice Process Engineer - Keighley

Water Utility Company based in the Yorkshire region of England.

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join our apprenticeship programme here at Yorkshire Water. We have an exciting opportunity for a Process Engineer Apprentice to join the Water Service Delivery Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of a team that operates our water treatment plants providing clean water for our customers.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary: £24,309 per 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 assurance flex and partner cover, retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Programme Support

• 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 the apprenticeship progression plan along with additional extracurricular activities to enhance your employability skills and personal brand.

Location

The successful candidate will cover the whole of the Keighley area including Graincliffe Heights Water Treatment Works, near Bingley.

What we do

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, it's so much more than this. We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's 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 region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

Where you fit in

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 reservoirs, 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.

As our Water Production Apprentice, your duties will include but are not limited to:

• Be responsible for learning how to run a number of Water Treatment Works in your area, taking care of and completing operational and plant maintenance activities to provide safe drinking water on tap every day to our customers.
• Tasks consist of a proactive planned workbasket including 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 all WTWs in your area.
• As a key element of our role, you will be trained to take care of chemical optimisation activities to ensure cost per unit and site outage is kept to a minimum.
• You will learn about and assist with on-site asset failure resolution and operational recovery both on-site and via monitoring technology.
• General site maintenance such as checking fire alarms, carrying out site and security walk-arounds to identify and report hazards, implementing mitigation and ensuring barriers and cones are in place.
• Maintaining site hygiene routines and ensuring the site housekeeping is maintained to a high standard ensuring the site is accessible and ready to receive delivery of products relevant to the process and maintaining.
• Support with reviewing risk assessments and method statements, controlling hazards, working to safety procedures and 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 ordering stock.
• Wearing the correct PPE and carrying out tanker checks when products are being delivered.
• Working as part of a team to ensure that water demand is provided to our customers, this includes immediate team members, line managers and colleagues from other areas of the business.
• Building your skills and competence to safely and confidently operate a Water Treatment Works post your apprenticeship.
• You will be developing some core skills that also impact other elements of your life including health and safety training, First Aid training, decision making and manual handling.
• You will embrace Modernisation ways of working and reducing asset failure through Dynamic Asset Maintenance reporting using hand-held technology.

What you will study

Our Process Engineer Apprentices study the level 3 Water Industry Process Technician apprenticeship standard which is delivered through Watertrain. Watertrain are a leading training provider delivering accredited training and apprenticeships specifically for the Water Industry. The apprenticeship is 36 months in duration plus your end point assessment period and is delivered on a block release basis at one of our Water Treatment sites.

What skills & qualifications you will need

• To hold or be predicted 5 GCSEs grade A-C or 4-9 including English and Mathematics.
• Full UK driving licence and own method of transport to report to a Clean Water site which are often rural locations.
• An interest in practical activities demonstrated in work experience and/or hobbies.
• Willing and able to work in a confined space which includes keeping calm when under pressure.

Timescales to consider

• Adverts close 8th March 2026
• Assessment centres 1st April 2026 with interviews to follow

If you've got an interest in a Process Engineer apprenticeship and want to learn more and help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance. All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.

We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

No agencies please.