Apprentice Environmental Practitioner
SOLENIS UK INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Bradford (BD12 0JZ)
Closes in 25 days (Sunday 8 March 2026)
Posted on 10 February 2026
Contents
Summary
This degree apprenticeship will equip you to help the Site meet environmental laws and company requirements.
- Wage
-
Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
- Hours
-
Monday to Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Start date
-
Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
-
4 years 5 months
- Positions available
-
1
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
- Support the Environment Team to help the site meet environmental laws and company requirements, covering areas such as permits, waste, emissions, noise, and environmental management systems.
- Help carry out environmental monitoring (such as air emissions and noise) and assist with collecting and reporting the results.
- Collect, track, and report environmental performance data, and support projects that help improve environmental performance.
- Help create environmental communications and support the delivery of environmental training to raise awareness of key topics.
- Take part in environmental inspections, audits, and regulator visits, and help investigate and fix any issues found.
- Assist with investigating environmental accidents and incidents, helping to identify causes and prevent them from happening again.
- Attend and take part in quarterly Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) committee meetings.
Where you'll work
Solenis Cleckheaton Road Low Moor
Bradford
BD12 0JZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE
Training course
Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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.
- 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.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level 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
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
About this employer
Solenis is a leading global producer of speciality chemicals for water-intensive industries, including the pulp, paper, oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, biorefinery, power and municipal markets. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of process, functional and water treatment chemistries as well as state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems.
http://www.solenis.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Pension scheme and life assurance.
- Private health care.
- Free on-site gym.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Perkbox: savings on shopping, travel, entertainment etc.
After this apprenticeship
- Environmental Technician.
- Environmental Manager.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000013696.
Apply now
Closes in 25 days (Sunday 8 March 2026)
After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.