Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme – Engineering Graduate

Salary & Benefits: Salary range £28,875 - £33,875 per annum dependant on experience, company car (through a contributory company car lease scheme), annual bonus, attractive pension scheme Up to 10% (rising to 12% from Apr 2025) company contribution, life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary and 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a wellness day and development opportunities in line with the Graduate Development Programme.

We also offer a fantastic flexible benefits package where you can choose from benefits such as health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover. 

Colleagues also have access to a retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location:  Bradford + Hybrid Working

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

We have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate position in the Engineering team at Yorkshire Water. 

What we do:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does but few understand how complicated and challenging serving our customers and protecting the environment actually can be,

Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The Engineering Team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators. 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate position in the Engineering function at Yorkshire Water.  We greatly value the skills and knowledge that our Graduate community bring to our business and the continued contribution they make as they embark on their varied careers across all our operational and support areas. 

With opportunities to build and further develop technical skills in your chosen area of study, our Graduate programme will nurture and support the growth and development of knowledge, skills and behaviours to become our technical, process and people leaders of the future – crucial to our continued commitment to be right for our customers and right for our environment.

THE ROLE:

The Graduate Programme is a two-year programme offering five structured placements within your business area, with selective placements in other areas, including our core functions, such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, Procurement to provide a holistic and rounded business learning journey.
 
 

The variety within the programme will see you working across our business and undertaking activities alongside your colleagues to meet the challenges faced by our industry ranging from how to achieve net zero carbon emissions through to how we plan for drought or flood events. The Engineering function covers a number of connected, yet discrete areas, with the opportunity to work across exciting areas, such as identifying and delivering innovation opportunities, championing nature-based solutions, through to contributing to strategies central to Yorkshire Water achieving our vision.

Engineering is a fundamental, enabling function residing at the heart of the way we manage our operational assets to deliver excellent customer service and protect the environment for the benefit of the people who live within and visitor Yorkshire. With expertise spanning process, chemical, civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation we support every aspect of the asset lifecycle - from concept through to decommissioning – by creating and managing assets that can last more than 100 years and so, no two days can ever the same.

Our team ensures that capital investments are designed and constructed to provide a safe, compliant and serviceable operational assets that truly underpin excellent customer service and protects the environment. Through collaboration with our suppliers, we deliver optimal engineering solutions to complex business needs by:

• Thoroughly understanding risks
• Reinvigorating or re-purposing existing assets to avoid construction where possible
• Optimizing the design of assets, we do construct
• Maximize the value of our capital investment for customers and simultaneously minimizing the environmental impact of our construction activity.

As a Graduate Engineer, you will:

• Inspect & survey assets to quantify asset health and performance
• Investigate and understand the root cause of a business risk
• Quantify the risk and assessment regulatory compliance
• Identify and promote opportunities for targeted capital investment
• Identify safety / environmental hazards and support the engineering design processes to design and develop solutions that keep customers & colleagues safe and protect the environment
• Support, govern and assure design processes
• Develop standard products, technical specifications and improve working procedures/practices
• Identify and implement asset improvements that enhance asset security, resilience, performance and reduce operating costs
• Validate that assets are constructed to accepted designs and standards
• Monitor asset health/performance and intervene to improve and protect Health, Safety, Wellbeing and environmental protection

Development opportunities

  We recognise that each of our graduates will have different needs and ambitions. Therefore, our programme is designed to meet those individual needs so that you can shape your future career the way that suits you.  We offer a balanced development programme throughout the duration of your two years with support from Sponsoring Managers, Graduate Champions and Mentors, as well as core programme team to support you from the day you make the decision to join us.
 
We actively support all engineering graduates in their Path to IEng and C.Eng accreditation.
 

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 2:1 M.Eng or B.Eng degree in the relevant Engineering discipline
• Full, Clean UK driving licence
• Enthusiasm and a drive to succeed

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 – 14th January, 2025

The Assessment Centre will take place on week commencing 24th February 2025 to the 28th February 2025 with final decisions communicated by the 22nd March 2025.

The information session for successful candidates we will be held on the morning of the 4th September, 2025.

Start date – 8th  September, 2025

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.