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Interested in rivers, flooding and how water moves through the environment?
As an Environmental Scientist Apprentice, you'll gain hands-on experience, earn a salary and work towards a fully funded Environmental Science degree with Keele University while helping to protect water resources and the environment.
Requirements
Essential qualifications:
- GCSE in: English Language (grade Grade 4/C), Mathematics (grade Grade 4/C)
- A Level in: any Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics (grade 3 at grade BBC or above), any Geography, Environmental Science, Biology (grade 3 at grade BBC or above)
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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
- Physical fitness
Other requirements:
- Willingness to travel across Great Britain for site visits, fieldwork and university attendance.
- Ability to work outdoors in a range of weather conditions when undertaking fieldwork.
- Must be able to meet the entry requirements for Keele University's Level 6 Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship.
- A full UK driving licence would be advantageous but is not essential at the start of the apprenticeship.
Responsibilities
What you'll do at work:
- Support the monitoring and assessment of rivers, rainfall, flooding and surface water systems across Great Britain
- Assist with collecting environmental data, water samples and monitoring information from sites
- Help inspect and maintain hydrological monitoring equipment
- Analyse environmental and hydrological data using specialist software and tools
- Support investigations into water movement, flooding and environmental impacts
- Assist with the preparation of technical reports, maps, presentations and project documentation
- Work alongside experienced hydrologists and environmental scientists on environmental protection and water management projects
- Take part in site visits, fieldwork and surveys to better understand water systems and catchments
- Contribute to projects that help protect communities, water resources and the environment
- Gradually take ownership of your own work and projects as your skills and experience develop
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What you'll learn:
- Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
- Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
- Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
- Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
- Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
- Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
- Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
- Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.
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Benefits
- Wage: £24,454.04 a year
- 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Flexible working
- A defined benefit pension scheme with around 29% employer contribution
- Well-being support
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Fully funded Environmental Science degree with Keele University
On successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will have gained a BSc degree in Environmental Science and valuable industry experience in hydrology. This could lead to opportunities within hydrology, flood risk management, environmental consultancy, water resource management or wider environmental science roles. You will also be well placed to work towards professional accreditation and further career development within the sector.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas. We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution. We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050. We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
https://www.miningremediation.co.uk/careers/
Application Process
Closes in 13 days (Sunday 19 July 2026)
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Contact
Mining Remediation Authority Yvonne Hackwell Recruitment@miningremediation.gov.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040641.
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