Ready to kick-start your warehousing career?
Join Thames Water as a Supply Chain Warehouse Operative Apprentice and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment while working towards a Level 2 qualification, building practical skills that support essential services and a long-term career in logistics.
As an apprentice, you’ll learn by doing as part of our renewal and logistics team, with support at every step. You’ll develop practical skills by:
1. Playing a key role in warehouse operations, from unloading and storing goods to picking and preparing orders for shipment.
2. Working closely with teams in both small hubs and fast-paced warehouses to keep operations running smoothly.
3. Safely and accurately handling, picking, and packing materials to ensure perfect delivery.
4. Gaining insight into Thames Water’s end-to-end supply chain, including warehouse systems, suppliers, and transport operations.
Where you’ll work:
Location: Didcot
Hours: 38 hours a week across four working days plus one off-the-job training day.
Start date: May 2026.
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: Permanent contract with a 12-15 month structured programme.
What you should bring to the role:
5. Level 1 English and Maths (Functional Skills) or GCSE grade 1–3 (D–G) or above
6. Full UK clean driving license.
7. Good communication skills.
8. Basic IT skills.
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. Work towards completing Level 2 English and Maths during the programme.
12. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
13. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
14. 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.