Jobs up for grabs to provide ultrafast broadband in county

JOBSEEKERS in Huddersfield are being urged to apply for a role bringing the latest high technology broadband to homes and businesses across Yorkshire.

Digital network business Openreach plans to hire more than 90 trainee engineers across the region following the news that the digital network business will accelerate plans to build more ultrafast Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband across the country.

The 90 roles – among 3,500 trainees being recruited across the UK during the next 12 months – will be located in towns and cities including Huddersfield, Halifax, Dewsbury, Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield.

Trainees will join the UK’s largest team of telecoms engineers working to expand, upgrade, maintain and install new services over Openreach’s national broadband network.

The “Fibre First” programme will deliver expanded “full fibre” FTTP networks in up to 40 towns, cities and boroughs as part of efforts to reach 10 million British premises by the mid 2020s. Openreach aims to make FTTP available in three million homes and businesses by the end of 2020.

A new state-of-the-art fibre engineering school has been set up in Bradford, one of 12 training centres being built UK-wide to support the fibre roll-out.

Further details are available at www. movementtowork.com