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Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme – Waste Water 

 

Salary & Benefits 

 

  • Starting salary: £32,000, rising to £37,000 by end of year 2

  • Extras: £2,000 signing bonus, annual bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + wellness day 

  • Pension: Up to 12% company contribution 

  • Life assurance: 4x pensionable salary 

  • Permanant substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance

  • Flexible Benefits Package 

  • Includes health cash plan, critical illness and dental insurance, life assurance flex (with partner cover), retail discounts, online GP access, cycle-to-work scheme, gym membership savings, and more. 

 

Location: West Yorkshire with requirement for flexible travel across Yorkshire & Humber. 

 
Work type:  37 hours per week between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm Monday – Friday 

 

Why Yorkshire Water? 

 

Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over 5.4 million people. But we’re more than taps and toilets—we protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire’s future. 

 

From tackling climate change to planning for droughts and floods, we’re solving some of the biggest challenges facing our region and we need talented graduates to help us do it. 

 

Your Graduate Programme 

 

Our two-year programme offers you five placements across your allocated business area, complemented by a choice of placements to suit your personal development needs in core functions such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, and Procurement, enabling you to have a balanced understanding of the business. You’ll gain hands-on experience, technical and leadership training, and support from mentors, managers, graduate alumni, and our Early in Careers team to support you from the day you make the decision to join us. 

 

By the end of the scheme, you’ll be ready to step into a permanent role and make a lasting impact. 

 

Your Team 

 

Our Wastewater function provides an essential operational environmental service to 5.4million domestic customers and 2.5 thousand business across the Yorkshire region. We take away 1billion litres per day of wastewater through just over 52,000km of sewer and thousands of pumping stations to one of our 640 Wastewater Treatment Works, where it is treated to safe standards before being released back to the environment. We also use the treated sludge from wastewater to generate renewable energy and create quality biosolids products for agriculture. 

 

We are looking to recruit a number of Operational Leadership and Technical Specialist Graduates in the Wastewater function. 

 

Your Role:  

 

As a Wastewater Graduate you will: 

 

  • Have a number of tailored placements working as part of our various wastewater teams to develop a foundation of skills and knowledge to understand our operational wastewater processes, customer journey and the important work that our 980 strong team deliver. This could include: 
  • Working alongside our Operational Field Managers, Technical Optimisers and maintenance teams to deliver 24/7 quality and compliant treatment services. 
  • Working with our Customer Field Services team to proactively manage our sewer network assets and resolve customer problems. 
  • Gain experience with our Asset Management function delivering our capital programme; technical asset planning activities and strategic planning for the future.  
  • Deliver outputs in our River Health team supporting and understanding our wastewater environmental performance requirements, regulatory reporting and relationship with the Environment Agency; or engaging with community groups and external bodies to deliver our strategic objectives. 

  • Deliver operational excellence projects to drive continuous improvement in performance 

  • You will help influence your development programme and experience to be structured towards achieving your personal career goals and the business's needs, but at the core it will be designed to develop your wastewater business and process knowledge, technical understanding, personal and people leadership skills, strategic thinking and delivery of excellent environmental performance. The ultimate goal is to equip you for an exciting career as a future Operational Leader or Technical Specialist in wastewater service delivery. 

 

What you’ll need to be successful: 


 

  • Minimum 2:1 Bachelors degree, ideally in a Science, Engineering,  Environment, Geography or similar discipline. 

  • Full Clean UK Driving Licence and willingness to travel across the region 

  • Enthusiasm and a drive to succeed 

  • Brilliant communication and interpersonal skills 

  • Excellent collaboration and teamworking skills 

  • Resilient to working in a dynamic environment under pressure and ability to prioritise workload 

  • Information analysis and presentation 

  • Internally driven and ambitious self-learner 

 

If you have an enquiring mind and want to join our business at a time where you can make a difference to our customers, our environment and join our sustainability led efforts – please apply! 

 

Please click on the button to apply and complete out graduate application form. 

 

 

Recruitment Process –  

 

Closing date: 9th November 2025  

 

Assessment Centres:  between 17th November 2025 to 5th December 2025  

  

Start date:  14th September 2026 

 

We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.  

 
 

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.   

 

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible. 

 

What's in it for you?

Career enhancement and development, colleague well-being and a genuinely positive work experience for all are key priorities. We are continuously evolving and improving our ways of working and you will support us in achieving our vision of 'taking responsibility for the water environment for good'.

If you feel this opportunity is suitable and you match the skills required, then please apply on line and complete the application process.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

The Kelda Group provides water and sewerage services to domestic and business customers across the UK, managing the following subsidiary companies: - 

Yorkshire Water, is the main subsidiary company providing water and sewerage services to 4.7 million people and 130,000 businesses in the Yorkshire region. Its activities are regulated by the Water Services Regulation Authority, Ofwat Loop Customer Management Ltd specialises in delivering customer service support to Yorkshire Water that includes billing, debt recovery and incident management. Employing more than 600 people, Loop have built up an impressive list of industry awards and achievements since being created in 2000 and is currently listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 list as being one of the best companies to work for.

Kelda Water Services (KWS) manages Kelda's non-regulated water and waste water contract operations. It is now the second biggest player in the UK market for outsourced clean and waste water services.

Kelda Water Services Retail offer quality, integrity and partnership but it is never just about the technologies behind our solutions in water. It is about the structure, delivery and even the financing of those solutions, and about giving our customers a level of convenience they never knew was possible.

KeyLand Developments Limited (KeyLand Developments) is responsible for managing, developing and disposing of the group's surplus property assets, either on its own or in partnership with outside organisations.

Kelda Group values equality, diversity and inclusion we believe that everyone should be treated with respect. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, religion or belief and trade union membership.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme - Waste Water

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