Work Experience at Avove
Explore our work experience opportunities
Work experience is a great way to learn about a job/industry and test out career opportunities that you have an interest in. It can help you stand out from the crowd when applying for jobs, gain employability skills and show potential employers how committed and enthusiastic you are.
What is work experience?
Work experience is a placement with an employer where you can shadow experienced members of the business
and carry out some tasks or duties to learn about what working life is like day-to-day. You can use work experience to:
Research
Explore what inspires you and discover your strengths, values and meet new people and network.
Learn soft skills
Improve your communication skills, team working, learn to adapt to new situations and improve your resilience.
Challenge yourself
Push yourself out of your comfort zone and help to build your confidence.
Why gain work experience at Avove?
We want as many young people and adult returners as possible to learn what it is like work with us, learn about our industry and see the opportunities we could potentially offer to you. When you come on work experience with us, we will:
- Plan a structured and impactful placement so you can get the most out of your time with us
- Assign a Work Experience Lead to look after and mentor you on placement
- Give you the opportunity to meet as many of our colleagues as possible
- Help you with CV/interview skills
- Keep in touch with you after your placement and let you know about any apprenticeship or entry level roles we have coming up if you have decided you would like a career with us in the future
Who should apply for work experience at Avove?
If you are 14+ years old or an adult returner to the workplace you can apply for work experience with us. Please be aware that in some parts of our business we can only accept people on placement who are 16+ years old due to health and safety reasons.
We will look at each work experience request on a case-by-case basis and try and accommodate as many placements as possible.
Our work experience placements are unpaid.
Our Services and Teams
We do loads of exciting things in the utilities industry!
Water
We help make sure safe, clean water reaches homes and businesses all over the UK. We work with big water companies on projects to do with reservoirs, aqueducts and pipelines.
Wastewater
We help to design and build the UK’s wastewater network such as sewer diversions, storage tanks and pumping stations. These projects can be complex and mean our engineers are some of the best around!
Vegetation Management
Our arborist teams make sure that power supplies aren’t disrupted by overgrown trees or vegetation. This work also helps prevent wildfires and makes sure electricity is safely delivered to homes and businesses.
Design & Build
We help support UK water infrastructure by designing and building projects for our clients – everything is done in-house, and we see the projects through from start to finish.
Enabling Functions
From Marketing to Finance, we have lots of office-based roles that look after our people and our operations.
Our work experience approach
We want you to have the best time possible here on placement and for the experience to really help you as you decide on your future career path, this is why our placements will be:
- Structured
- Informative
- Fun
- Engaging
- Helpful
We will make sure you are mentored during your placement and that we work with you to show you all the opportunities available to start a career with us in the future after your education. We also have lots of resources available to help with employability skills.
Your Pipeline to Success with work experience
You can apply for work experience with us at any time during the year.
When you start your placement with us, we will give you a structured induction to our company, the team you will be working with and the tasks/projects you will be getting involved with.
Once you have completed your placement and any education you may currently be in, you may wish to apply for any suitable apprenticeship or entry level roles we have available so you can begin your career with us.
Work experience process
To apply for work experience with us please complete this simple form
Once you have submitted your request a member of the team will be in touch with you to talk further about your placement. If you have any questions, please contact us on early.careers@avove.co.uk
Work experience application tips
- If it is a placement linked with your school and needs to be carried out at certain dates, please make sure you apply in plenty of time, we would ideally need six weeks’ notice before your placement begins
- Please make sure you give as much information as possible when filling out the request form
- Think about travel, how might you get to and from a placement if you don’t drive?
Work experience FAQs
Why is work experience important?
It gives you a great opportunity to learn about a job/industry and test out career ideas that you have an interest in.
What work experience should I do?
Try to do something you are interested in, and think could be a potential future career for you.
What work experience is good for engineering?
Our site-based opportunities would be good to learn more about engineering as you would get to see our Operatives and Engineers in action carrying out our infrastructure works!
When should you complete work experience?
You can complete work experience with us at any point during the year. Most school age young people complete their work experience at the end of year 10 in May/June time.
Can I do work experience as an adult?
Yes of course! If you are an adult wanting to return to work due to being out of the workplace for whatever reason, we can provide you with a work experience placement to help you further develop your employability skills and learn about what it is like to work in our industry.