Whether you're leaving school or college, looking to upskill in your career, or seeking a complete career change. Affinity Water will give you the help and support you need to succeed.
As an apprentice you'll join a recognised water industry training programme, carefully tailored to your development and delivered by leading industry experts.
You’ll be working in a real team alongside people with years of solid experience, who will give you day-to-day support and mentorship, helping you to learn the tools and techniques you need to build a rewarding career in the water industry.
About our Network Operatives
Our Network Operatives are responsible for the repair and maintenance of our water distribution networks. Helping to ensure we provide high quality drinking water to our customers. They are responsible for providing a wide range of essential repair and maintenance work, including the laying of new mains and connections as required, ensuring there is minimal disruption to our customer’s water supply.
This is a varied, field-based role, with travel to different areas to support and deliver on planned and emergency works. The role will include working with construction equipment such as mini diggers and vibrating equipment, operating street works, excavation and reinstatement in the highway and a range of other highly skilled activities.
As an Apprentice Network Operative, you will work with Affinity Water and our approved training provider to meet the key responsibilities of your programme and the wider duties of your role. This is an exciting chance to kickstart your career and we will support you every step of the way through a range of activities and real-world opportunities.
A starting salary of £20,827 with an additional flex allowance of £4,884
Salary reviews at key programme milestones with the potential to earn £36,639 when fully trained and qualified and having successfully achieved all targets
An additional standby allowance of £7,878 once all programme elements are completed and you are signed off to work as an independent Network Operative
We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.
Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.
You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.
