Watertrain
Water Technician Coach
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Watertrain are looking for an experienced Water Technician Coach to provide coaching support to their apprentice technicians.
This is a full-time/permanent position.
We are looking for someone who has extensive experience as a Water Technician and now wants to share their knowledge with new apprentice technicians.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and structure on-the-job coaching activities that reflect real-world water network operations, ensuring apprentices gain practical competence in line with industry standards.
- Deliver practical, experience-led training sessions, drawing on real site scenarios, faults, and operational challenges of up to 15 learners.
- Coach and assess apprentices on core water industry skills – including leakage detection, repairs, network maintenance, and safe working practices. This is both off and on site.
- Support both new starters and experienced operatives by sharing practical knowledge, trade skills, and best practice.
- Act as a dedicated technical mentor to a group of apprentices, supporting their progression to full competence within agreed program timescales.
- A program start, work with employers and apprentices to agree clear development milestones linked to operational competence and job readiness.
- Regularly review apprentice progress with both the learner and employer, ensuring they are developing the technical skills and behaviors required for frontline water operations.
- Record and evidence apprentice technical development, identifying any skill gaps early and providing targeted coaching support where needed.
- Work within required quality and assessment frameworks to ensure training meets industry and awarding body standards.
- Provide regular, practical feedback to apprentices based on observed performance, workplace evidence, and real job outputs.
- Review and support completion of apprentice evidence portfolios, ensuring they accurately reflect real work activities and achieved technical competence.
- Complete assessment paperwork to the required audit standards.
- Maintain and update knowledge of the subject/professional area and cooperate in any staff development activities required to effectively carry out the duties of the post and to participate in review and development schemes.
- Comply with safeguarding procedures, ensuring learners understand the importance of safeguarding.
- Act with honesty and integrity to maintain high standards of ethics and professional standards.
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Qualifications and Experience:
- Experienced in water distribution networks and water leakage with potentially supervisory or management experience
- Confident in one’s knowledge and experience and excited at the prospect of helping others in their careers
- A team player with good IT and communication skills
- A willingness to travel and away from home to deliver on client sites
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About Us
Watertrain is a UK-leading provider of water-utility qualifications and apprenticeships. We help employers to find solutions to training needs and longer-term staff development through apprenticeship programs, competency qualifications, and bespoke training. The company joined the RSK Group in May 2022.
We are experts in developing nationally accredited qualifications that are created following consultation with sector employers, thereby ensuring their effectiveness and suitability, in addition to meeting organizational needs. We have developed nationally accredited qualifications with CABWI (water-sector-awarding organization), including a level 4 diploma (Water Industry Operations and Management) and 5 new level 3 combined-diploma qualifications. The qualifications support delivering the Apprenticeship Standard and provide learners and employers with the added value of an accredited qualification. The evidence portfolio we designed for each qualification can generate the competency and knowledge to achieve 70% for End Point Assessment in the Water Process Technician Apprenticeship Standard.
Watertrain is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.
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