Ready to kick-start your engineering career?
Join Thames Water as a Mechanical and Electrical Apprentice, gaining hands-on skills with key systems while working towards a Level 3 Engineering Maintenance Technician qualification
What you’ll be doing as a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer Level 3 Apprentice:
1. Learn to maintain and repair plant and equipment, including motors, power supplies, actuators, pumps, valves, gearboxes, and pipework.
2. Gain knowledge in planned, preventative, and reactive maintenance, including responding to breakdowns.
3. Develop skills to complete jobs safely and keep accurate work records.
4. Contribute to continuous improvement activities as part of your training.
5. Work alongside skilled engineers, both independently and as part of a team, to build hands-on experience.
Where you’ll work:
Location: KT17 1BW Epsom WTW
Hours: 38-hour week over four working days plus one training day, with a 7:30am start
Start date: Sept 2026
Training and qualification: You’ll train with Basingstoke College of Technology through on-campus or online sessions, with travel and accommodation covered in line with our travel expense policy
Qualification achieved: Engineering Maintenance Technician – Level 3 City & Guilds Diploma in Engineering (dual discipline)
Duration: Permanent contract with a 48-month structured programme
What you should bring to the role:
6. GCSE Maths and English. (grades 9–4 / A–C)
7. Good time management and organisational skills.
8. Able to work well in a team and independently.
What’s in it for you?
9. Excellent salary: £22,500 per annum
10. Annual Leave: 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
11. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
12. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
13. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.