Summary
Kick-start your future as a Construction Assurance Apprentice, supporting the UK’s largest water and wastewater provider. You’ll support projects through design, build, commissioning, and aftercare—helping integrate new assets smoothly into day‑to‑day operations.
Wage
£22,500 a year
Training course
Construction site supervisor (level 4)
Hours
36 hours a week across four working days plus one off‑the‑job training day, Monday‑Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.
Start date
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Duration
3 years 6 months
Positions available
2
What you’ll do at work
- Support construction assurance to meet time, cost, and quality targets
- Assist with pre‑construction reviews and readiness checks
- Monitor contractor safety, environmental compliance, and asset standards. Help resolve site issues, non‑conformances, and deviations
- Work with Operations Readiness teams to ensure smooth asset integration
- Help prepare and review RAMS, TWOSAS, and permits
- Take part in audits and performance reviews, driving improvement
- Support planning, lookahead meetings, commissioning, and aftercare
Where you’ll work
Maple Lodge, Rickmansworth, WD3 9SQ
Training: Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
What you’ll learn
Course contents:
- Identify risk of activities and encourage all employees to demonstrate safety‑conscious behaviours
- Assess, identify and record the environmental impact of projects
- Assist in the implementation of the most appropriate solutions for construction projects
- Use effective management principles and be able to supervise construction workers
- Understand overall plan for project and measure and record progress against plan
- Assess and report on quality standards and assist in commissioning of finished construction projects
- Understand financial and legal constraints and measure and record progress against budget
Training schedule
- Knowledge, skills and behaviours as set out in the Level 4 Construction Site Supervisor Standard
- Certificate of Higher Education Construction & Built Environment
- Virtual sessions each week, as well as live seminars and recordings; tasks and learning resources are set on the VLE
Essential qualifications
GCSE in Maths and English (grade 9‑4 or A‑C). Other relevant subject (grade Distinction/Merit/Pass/A‑C). Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience; the apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
- Full UK driver’s license needed; if using own vehicle will need business insurance
Company benefits
- Performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance targets
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long‑term health condition. This includes non‑visible disabilities and conditions. You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme; you’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Permanent contract with a 42‑month structured programme
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