Asset Planning Level 4 Apprentice
THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
Reading (RG1 8DB)
Closes in 21 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
Posted on 10 February 2026
Contents
Summary
Join us as a Level 4 Apprentice and make a real impact at the UK’s largest water and wastewater provider. You’ll gain hands-on experience, work alongside skilled professionals, and earn a respected Level 4 Asset Manager qualification.
- Wage
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£22,500 a year
- Training course
- Asset manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Hours: 36 hours a week across four working days plus one off-the-job training day, Monday - Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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4
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
What you’ll be doing as an Asset Planning Apprentice:
- Assist in developing asset plans for treatment works, pumping stations, and networks in line with AMP8 priorities
- Analyse asset performance data to identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities
- Support capital maintenance planning and project prioritisation to meet regulatory and sustainability goals
- Contribute to risk-based decision-making for asset interventions
- Prepare reports and presentations using Microsoft Office and Thames Water’s asset management systems
- Take part in site visits, inspections, and planning meetings
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards
Where you'll work
Clearwater Court
Vastern Road
Reading
RG1 8DB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
Training course
Asset manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify the organisation’s context and constraints that affect asset management.
- Identify asset service and performance requirements.
- Estimate and calculate Life Cycle Cost (LCC) or Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for assets/asset systems.
- Use techniques to identify interventions for assets/asset system and estimate benefits.
- Apply multi criteria decision making methods to proposed intervention options.
- Select and use decision support tools to make asset management recommendations.
- Develop asset life-cycle plans including performance monitoring and business case.
- Classify assets, asset systems, life cycle stages and activities.
- Plan and manage projects.
- Assess asset health; condition and performance.
- Select and apply fault finding technique(s) to identify causes and effects of assets/asset system failures.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Assess and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks; identify mitigation options.
- Comply with legislation, asset management standards and company policies.
- Use information technology systems and processes: for example, asset registers, work management systems, word processing, spreadsheets, email, presentation.
- Collate and analyse asset/asset system data and information.
- Interpret and present data - qualitative and/or quantitative.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders – verbal, written and presentation.
- Identify the organisation’s context and constraints that affect asset management.
- Identify asset service and performance requirements.
- Estimate and calculate Life Cycle Cost (LCC) or Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for assets/asset systems.
- Use techniques to identify interventions for assets/asset system and estimate benefits.
- Apply multi criteria decision making methods to proposed intervention options.
- Select and use decision support tools to make asset management recommendations.
- Develop asset life-cycle plans including performance monitoring and business case.
- Classify assets, asset systems, life cycle stages and activities.
- Plan and manage projects.
- Assess asset health; condition and performance.
- Select and apply fault finding technique(s) to identify causes and effects of assets/asset system failures.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Assess and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks; identify mitigation options.
- Comply with legislation, asset management standards and company policies.
- Use information technology systems and processes: for example, asset registers, work management systems, word processing, spreadsheets, email, presentation.
- Collate and analyse asset/asset system data and information.
- Interpret and present data - qualitative and/or quantitative.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders – verbal, written and presentation.
Training schedule
- Knowledge, skills and behaviours as set out in the Asset manager Level 4 Asset Management Standard
- Certificate of Higher Education in Asset Management included
- Modules delivered through weekly online tutorials, supported by pre-session learning materials such as recorded videos, lecture notes, and case studies
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Other in:
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
Other requirements
Ability to travel to Thames Water sites throughout the programme.
About this employer
Who are we? We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come
https://careers.thameswater.co.uk/our-roles/early-careers/ (opens in new tab)
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 24-month structured programme.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000014450.
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Closes in 21 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
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