Ready to kick-start your Warehousing career?
Join Thames Water as a Supply Chain Warehouse Operative Apprentice and build hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment. You’ll work towards a Level 2 qualification while developing practical skills that support essential services—and set you up for a long-term career in logistics.
What you'll be doing as a Warehouse Operative Apprentice:
1. Play a key role in warehouse operations, from unloading and storing goods to picking and preparing orders for shipment.
2. Work closely with teams in both small hubs and fast-paced warehouses to keep operations running smoothly.
3. Travelling to sites to collect and deliver materials
4. Attend meetings at different Thames Water locations and learn how teams collaborate.
5. Support operations across multiple sites, gaining a variety of experience
6. Handle, pick, and pack materials safely and accurately to ensure perfect delivery.
7. Build an understanding of Thames Water’s end-to-end supply chain, including systems, suppliers, and transport operations.
Where you’ll work:
Location: Highworth, SN6 7NA
Hours:38 hours a week across four working days plus one off-the-job training day.
Start date:September2026
Training and qualification: You’ll train with TRS Training Limited, receiving monthly workplace visits from a trainer-assessor and ongoing off-site support to develop your skills and track your progress.
Qualification achieved: Supply chain warehouse operative Level 2 standard.
Duration:12-15 month structured programme
Contract: Permanent
What you should bring to the role:
8. Level 1 English and Maths (Functional Skills) or GCSE grade 1–3 (D–G) or above.
9. A full UK driving licence and access to transport is fundamental to the role, as you’ll regularly travel between different sites as part of the programme. Being able to get around independently is key.
10. Good communication skills.
11. Basic IT skills.
What’s in it for you?
12. Starting salary of £22,500 per annum.
13. Annual Leave: 24 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
14. Work towards completing Level 2 English and Maths during the programme.
15. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
16. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
17. 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.