Safety, Health and Environment Apprentice - Level 3 - Ipswich

About OCU Group

OCU Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, delivering complex projects across power, utilities, water, and digital infrastructure. With sales growing five-fold to £1.1bn over the last five years, we are expanding both organically and through acquisitions, including recent growth in Australia and New Zealand.

For experienced professionals, OCU offers meaningful responsibility, the chance to influence delivery, and career progression in a business that invests in capability, autonomy, and high performance.

For those starting their careers, we provide structured routes through apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and training academies, with hands-on experience on real projects and supportive mentors to help you learn and progress.

We value safety, integrity, collaboration, and doing things properly and we support people who want to make a tangible impact.

You’ll support the Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) team by carrying out daily safety, environmental, and quality checks, helping inspect work sites, and encouraging safe working habits. You’ll assist with reporting accidents and incidents, learning from what happened to improve future practices. You’ll also contribute to environmental and compliance projects, while developing the skills to deliver safety briefings and toolbox talks.

School leavers, early-career professionals or anyone looking to build a long‑term future in Health & Safety, Environmental Management or Quality Assurance.

For our Level 3 Apprenticeship, you’ll need 5 GCSEs or equivalent at passing grades. This programme offers a mix of practical experience and theoretical learning, with a focus on more technical or specialized roles to help you build expertise.

You will be enrolled on the Safety, health and environment technician Apprenticeship. A structured programme lasting approximately 24 months.

At OCU Group, we believe that diversity and inclusion are fundamental to building a workplace where people feel valued, supported and able to do their best work. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, we may ask candidates to complete an equal opportunity monitoring form. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in selection decisions.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. This means we are committed to offering an interview to candidates with a long-term health condition or disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. If this applies to you, please contact us at recruitment@ocugroup.com.