An Apprenticeship with us is all about exploring new opportunities, rethinking how things are done, and training the talent of the future.
That’s why we work hard to design worthwhile apprenticeship schemes. They offer people like you the chance to gain skills, qualifications and experience as part of a team, in a paid role within the business.
We believe these schemes are unique. And what makes them so is our total commitment to providing the development you need so you can make a real difference throughout your career with us!
Coming soon January 2025
We will be launching our latest recruitment drive for over 60 apprentices!
Are you are ready to dive into an exciting career and join Anglian Water’s 2025 Apprentice Programmes?
We’re excited to offer our apprenticeship opportunities across our front-line operations in: · Mechanical & Electrical Engineering · Process Commissioning Engineers · Network Technicians · Restoration Technicians · Bioresources Technicians
Ready to take the plunge? Register your interest now and be among the first to know when applications open!
Don’t miss your chance to make a splash with Anglian Water’s 2025 Apprentice Programmes.
Let’s build a brighter, greener future together!
Benefits of being an Apprentice
As well as getting a nationally recognised qualification - Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard. You'll also benefit from all of the below perks:
Through this benefit you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days additional leave each year.
We all need access to medical care at some point in our lives and we want to make sure our people get the best treatment possible. This benefit gives employees access to medical care at a time and place that is suitable for them. This scheme enables you to access a great range of services including surgical procedures, specialists, consultants or treatments based on your medical needs.
All of our Apprentices are guaranteed a full time role at the end of their apprenticeship (subject to the apprentice's performance and behaviours)
Supporting you with the cost of living and providing a comfortable convenient environment for you to stay to enhance your apprenticeship experience
Supporting you with the cost of living and helping to keep you safe!
You are enrolled into the Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with a default contribution from your salary each month. You can choose to pay more. Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6% i.e. if you contribute 6%, Anglian Water contributes 12%.
Anglian Water have teamed up with GymFlex to give you the option to pay for your membership through your salary at a discounted rate. Colleagues can also get a 20% discount on any new mobile phone contract through EE.
Our 2 year programmes
Check out the opportunities we offer to learn whilst you earn, in one of our practical Level 3 Apprenticeships. All of our 2 year Apprenticeships involve a week dedicated to study/classroom training with our dedicated training provider.
As a Water Networks Apprentice, you’ll train to become a fully qualified Network Technician within our Water Services team. As part of your apprenticeship, you will spend 24 months training and learning. This will be through a mixture of classroom study and on-the-job training as you work towards a nationally recognised apprenticeship standard.
Anglian Water Services prides itself on carrying out excellent customer service whilst maintaining first class water quality. As a fully qualified Network Technician, you will be responsible for planned and reactive activities in relation to network operations, reacting to customer needs, planned preventative maintenance, leakage detection, water regulations and water quality both in and out of hours.
The Network Technician role is a multi-skilled and varied one. You are Anglian Waters prime point of contact with the public and the company’s ambassadors for Customer Service.
What type of person would this Apprenticeship suit?
This Apprenticeship would suit someone who is practical and interested in engineering of our Water Network. We are looking for somebody who is a is people person and would enjoy delivering top customer service to our customers/general public.
Check out our day in the life video to find out more!
Fun fact!
Did you know every day we supply around 1.2 billion litres of high-quality drinking water to 4.3 million customers via 140 water treatment works and more than 37 thousand kilometres of water mains.
Treatment Apprentice
As a Treatment Apprentice, you will train to become a fully qualified Works Technician Process Controller within our Water Recycling team. As part of your apprenticeship, you will spend 24 months training and learning. This will be through a mixture of classroom study and on-the-job training as you work towards a nationally recognised apprenticeship standard.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring our Water Recycling Treatment processes and systems are serviced and maintained so that they run effectively and efficiently to meet our regulatory standards. This could be maintaining sewerage systems, including associated control systems, maintaining sewer pumping stations and associated equipment, monitoring and maintaining wastewater treatment processes including screening, grit removal, settlement, biological treatment and sludge treatment and much more!
What type of person would this Apprenticeship suit?
This Apprenticeship would suit someone who isn’t phased by the smells of sewage! We are looking for somebody that is interested in Science, especially the waste water treatment process. We are looking for someone with an inquisitive mindset, who will be interested in the biological processes of the natural world and is committed to protecting the environment.
Fun fact!
Did you know, tiny little bugs are in the treatment process!
Restoration Technician Apprentice
As a Water Restoration Apprentice, you’ll train to become a fully qualified Restoration Technician within our Water Services team.
As part of your apprenticeship, you will spend 24 months training and learning. This will be through a mixture of classroom study and on-the-job training as you work towards a nationally recognised apprenticeship standard.
Anglian Water Services prides itself on carrying out excellent customer service whilst maintaining first class water quality. As a fully qualified Restoration Technician, you will beresponsible for planned and reactive activities within network operations, reacting to customer Interruptions to suppl, deployment of alternative supplies including Tankering, Overland supplies, Line stopping, emergency pumps and generators while maintaining the highest water quality standards both in and out of hours.
The Restoration Technician role is a multi-skilled and varied one. You are Anglian Waters front line point of contact with the public and the company’s ambassadors for Customer Service.
What type of person would this Apprenticeship suit?
This Apprenticeship would suit someone who is practical, not afraid to work outside in all weathers and is truly interested in the engineering of restoring water supplies. We are looking for someone who would take job satisfaction from keeping our customers water supplies going and someone who would enjoy achieving their HGV licence and driving our large tankers!
Watch the video below to find out more about our Restoration team.
Fun fact!
On this Apprenticeship we’d pay for you to gain your HGV licence. Our HGV Water tankers are vehicles that carry tanks of potable water. The water is injected into a hydrant which goes directly into the customers’ pipes providing a bulk supply of clean, wholesome drinking water until the normal supply has resumed.
We currently have a fleet of 22 tankers, with a capacity to carry:
9,000 litres
18,000 litres
20,000 litres
29,000 litres
Below is a pic of one of our tankers providing clean drinking water to festival goers:
Water Recycling Network Apprentice
As a Water Recycling Networks Apprentice, you will train to become a fully qualified Field Technician within our Water Recycling team. As part of your apprenticeship, you will spend 24 months training and learning. This will be through a mixture of classroom study and on-the-job training as you work towards a nationally recognised apprenticeship standard.
Anglian Water Services prides itself on delivering excellent customer service as well as its commitment to protecting the environment. This role is a multi-skilled and varied one, where you will build your knowledge on Water Recycling Networks as well as Treatment processes.
It is an extremely varied role, where no day is the same reacting to the wide range of issues that occur on our network, including blockages, odours, flooding and pollution incidents.
You will also learn about the planned maintenance we complete on our assets to protect people’s homes and local watercourses and be part of a team who are first responders to any incidents that may affect the environment. You will spend time with a mentor working on the front line with our customers, learning how to use specialist equipment to investigate and resolve any issues they encounter.
What type of person would this Apprenticeship suit?
Similar to Water Network Apprentices, this Apprenticeship would suit someone who is practical and interested in engineering of our Water Network. We are looking for somebody who is a is people person and would enjoy delivering top customer service to our customers/general public.
We’d also be looking for somebody who enjoys practical work and has the willingness to work with the unpleasant fats oils and greases that can be present in our sewer network and the smells they may cause, not forgetting the obvious ‘sewage’…after all it’s a sewerage network!
Fun fact!
Did you know the average household puts over a litre of kitchen fat, oil and grease down the sink, every year – that’s the same as 8 cups of tea sitting in your sewer pipes.
Our 4 year programmes
Check out the opportunities we offer to learn whilst you earn, in one of our practical Level 3 Apprenticeships. All of our 4 year Apprenticeships involve a week dedicated to study/classroom training with our dedicated training provider. Then during years 2, 3 and 4 apprentices will be putting their classroom skills and knowledge into a real working environment.
On this 3–4-year programme, you’ll work towards your Level 3 Maintenance Operations Engineering Technician (Electromechanical) Apprenticeship Standard. As part of your apprenticeship, you will spend 48 months training and learning. This will be through a mixture of classroom study and on-the-job training as you work towards a nationally recognised apprenticeship standard.
As a fully qualified and multiskilled mechanical and electrical Maintenance Technician, you will be responsible for ensuring the equipment at our Water Recycling sites remains operational through maintaining and repairing the assets. There are many components necessary to operate the water recycling system which must be carefully maintained, such as wet wells, pipes, valves, storage tanks and pumps!
What type of person would this Apprenticeship suit?
This Apprenticeship would suit someone who is practical and interested in mechanical and electrical processes. We are looking for somebody who is a problem solver and would enjoy utilising IT systems to report and diagnose complex faults on our Water Recycling assets. This is a 4 year programme with the first year in full time education, so we are looking for someone who is hard working, keen to learn and self motivated.
Fun Fact
Our mechanical and electrical teams operate and maintain assets including sewage and vacuum pumping stations, water recycling and sludge treatment centres. These assets must work reliably, efficiently and safely to ensure we meet our regulatory, financial customer and environmental requirements.
Asset Technician Apprentice
On this 2-3 year programme, you will work achieve yourLevel 3 Maintenance Operations Engineering Technician (Electromechanical) Apprenticeship Standard. Throughout the majority of your first year, you will be based at a fully expensed residential college in Grantham where you will build your knowledge of instrumentation, as well as developing your mechanical and electrical skills. During years 2 and 3 you will spend 1 week in 4 at college to reinforce your on-the-job learning. Year 4 will be fully work based.
As a fully qualified and multi skilled mechanical and electrical Asset Technician, you will be responsible for ensuring the equipment at our Water Treatment Works remains operational so that our customers continue to receive 1,100 million litres of drinking water per day. Whilst on the job you will also learn about all aspects of the water treatment process including the chemicals, coagulants, disinfectants, and gases.
What type of person would this Apprenticeship suit?
This Apprenticeship would suit someone who is practical and interested in mechanical and electrical processes. We are looking for somebody who interested in the water treatment process and would enjoy carrying out routine maintenance and diagnosing complex faults on our water sites.
Fun fact
Our Water Supply Teams are responsible for the safe, compliant operation of non-infrastructure assets supplying over a billion litres of safe drinking water to customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Process Commissioning Engineer Apprentice
As a Process Commissioning Engineer Apprentice, you’ll train as a wastewater process technician specialising in recycling processes as part of our commissioning team, helping deliver our programme of capital investment. The commissioning team work as part of a larger team of partner contractors where we test, optimise and run new treatment plants and systems for the first time to prove reliability and performance prior to hand over to the end user.
During your apprenticeship you’ll spend five years training and learning. This will be through a mixture of classroom study and on-the-job training as you work towards a level 4 qualification.
Your first two years will be spent in an Anglian Water Operational team where you will learn about the operation and optimisation of wastewater and sludge treatment assets working towards a licence to operate. At regular intervals you will spend time on @One construction sites, getting to know your new commissioning team. In years three and four you will undertake a two-year Asset Management apprenticeship programme to round out your understanding of treatment assets, investment and capital delivery.
In year 5 you will spend time on @One sites acquiring the remaining practical skills, under the direction of an experienced Commissioning Engineer, mentor and manager to ensure your success as a process Commissioning Engineer.
What type of person would this Apprenticeship suit?
This Apprenticeship would suit someone who is practical, not afraid to work outside in all weathers and is truly interested in understanding how things work. We are looking for someone with an inquisitive mindset, who will be interested in the biological processes of the natural world and is committed to protecting the environment.
Anyone over the age of 16 can apply for an Apprenticeship. We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we will consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we are committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
Yes absolutely, why not take our quiz at the top of this webpage to see which roles would suit you best?
From when our job adverts close to job offer will be no more than 5 weeks
Our 4 year programmes start in August 2025 and our 2 year programmes start in July 2025.
For 2 year programmes, the start salary will be £15,341 per annum (with a pay review increase, subject to performance and successful completion of all segments of the training programme, every 6 months)
And for 4 year programmes, the start salary will be £15,341 per annum (with a pay review increase, subject to performance and successful completion of all segments of the training programme, every 6 months)
After the program you'll have gained nationally recognised qualification and will have a full-time job secured in your area of expertise (subject to performance and behavioural reviews).
