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Building Futures - Asset Graduate Scheme

Salary £27,000 per year
Location Pity Me, Durham, County Durham
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Building Futures – Asset Graduate Scheme

Working hours Full time 37 hours per week

Fixed term 24 month Contract

Salary £27,000 per year

Location Pity Me, Durham, with site visits around the region

About the role

At Northumbrian Water Group (covering the North East, Essex & Suffolk), we’re preparing for a £6 billion investment programme running from 2025 to 2030, aiming to increase the resilience of our water and wastewater services while restoring and regenerating our environment.

To help achieve this we’re seeking graduates to join our Building Futures Graduate Scheme, an exciting two-year opportunity to embark on a structured career path with us.

You will gain valuable experience, training, and mentorship as you embark on four rotational placements within our Assets Directorate [who are responsible for designing, constructing & maintaining NWG’s incredible breadth & depth of assets, facilities & equipment] across teams like Integrated Delivery Services, PMO, Capital Delivery, Asset Intelligence, Maintenance, Engineering, and Transformation.

To help further your development you will take on stretching assignments during placements where you will be accountable for impactful projects. Regular workshops will be delivered to allow you to develop a variety of transferrable skills and you will have an opportunity to network throughout the programme by attending industry events.

We live water. Every one of our customers depends upon us every day, and we pride ourselves on making this a place where the best people come to make a positive difference.

As a company with a strong One Team ethos, we work together to achieve goals that deliver not only for us, but for our people, and for the communities we serve.

We believe that when you work hard you should be rewarded so we offer a wide range of benefits and discounts that our people can tap into that help create a healthy workplace and supports the needs of diverse colleagues.

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked

About you

You will be studying an Engineering, Environmental, Project Management, Business or Science degree and be on track to achieve a 2:1 or above, and are looking for a great organisation to launch your career, where you can learn, are valued and where you can make a positive difference to the environment.

Those studying degrees in wider fields will also be considered, we’re looking for you to demonstrate a passion towards learning, this includes taking on challenges and seeking feedback to improve.

As you will be working within a team, we’re looking for you to be able to work collaboratively, using your proven communication skills to engage. You will also participate in assignments, structured training, and other opportunities across the organisation.

Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, which means we would love you to bring new ideas and ways of working to help us improve. This will help contribute to our vision to be national leader.

It would be useful if you had a manual driving licence for this role.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.  We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

 

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.

Our values are:

Results Driven

We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

Ethical

We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

Customer Focused

We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

Innovative

We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

One Team

We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

We’re the great company we are because of you – our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.

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