Management Graduate

Overview

Bath-times, half-times, party-times, meeting-times, and cooking-times. Welsh Water's water brings Wales to life! It helps 3 million people stay healthy and clean every day. It keeps businesses running smoothly and life flowing along.

Welsh Water’re different. And proud of it. Welsh Water’re for everyone, not for profit. Welsh Water’re people from every walk of life, all with an opportunity to develop and grow amazing careers. All sharing the benefits of bringing Welsh Water's whole self to work.

Welsh Water’re the engineers and scientists, rangers, and customer advisors that keep the taps flowing and keep Welsh Water's customers happy. Welsh Water’re in every community. And for every community. Welsh Water’re Welsh Water. The people with the passion to bring futures to life in a business that brings Wales to life!

Discover the difference Welsh Water can bring to your life and your career.

Enough about Welsh Water, let's hear about you...

Welsh Water is seeking interested applicants who have achieved a Business, Engineering, Science, Environment, Safety, or a Humanities degree – that’s it! No prior experience needed.

Key skills / attributes that Welsh Water’d be looking for from the successful candidate are:

• Organisational Skills
• Problem Solving
• Good Communication Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Stakeholder Management

Your graduate scheme

At Welsh Water, Welsh Water have developed a Graduate Programme, which will develop leaders for the future, promoting work to be completed across the business in a compliant manner, safely, on time, and to budget, whilst motivating Welsh Water's people to continually improve what they do and ‘earn the trust of Welsh Water's customers every day’.

It's Welsh Water's job to look after your water. Welsh Water supply high-quality drinking water to over 3 million customers in over 1.4 million homes and businesses across Wales. This means cleaning and delivering more than 800 million litres of water every day. Supplying safe drinking water is Welsh Water's most important responsibility, ensuring that Welsh Water's tap water is free from harmful chemicals and bacteria and has a good taste.

During your time as a Graduate, you will learn the foundations of leadership, effective team building, and how to lead and work effectively with others. These roles are primarily based in Welsh Water's Water and Waste Services departments, where you will spend 4 x 6 months in different business areas. This will be complemented by Career Safaris to give you maximum exposure to Welsh Water.

Your Welsh Water Management Graduate Programme will provide you with the opportunity to further develop your skills, knowledge, and experience.

Development Opportunities

As part of your 6-month placement, here are some of the departments/projects that you could be involved with:

• Water and Waste Services
• Improvement Projects
• Change Programmes
• Developing Business Awareness

Your programme will also include soft skills workshops, including:

• Presentation Skills
• Effective Team Working
• Resilience
• Personal Branding
• Time Management
• Problem Solving
• Managing Difficult Conversations

Additionally, you will work on a variety of projects with your fellow graduates, allowing you to develop your interpersonal and leadership skills while collaborating with your peers. You will also have the opportunity to work on key business projects within your specialized field.

Good to Know

Welsh Water is flexible with location, so if you want to work in Wales then apply. Occasionally, with notice, you may be expected to travel to sites across Wales and its borders. The recruitment process will include a short assessment, followed by an in-person assessment centre in Cardiff between February and March 2025. Further information will be provided closer to the time. Welsh Water is looking for a CV and cover letter that demonstrates how you will make a difference and add value.

Benefits

In addition to a market-competitive salary, Welsh Water offer a range of employee benefits and rewards, including:

• Variable pay schemes
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Internal employee networks including Embrace, LGBT+, Neurodiverse, Disability, Women of Welsh Water, Parents, Wellbeing, and more...
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including funded training and coaching
• Reduction on high street & online shopping
• Cycle to work scheme/Car-leasing scheme
• Online GP service
• Voluntary private healthcare
• Free mortgage brokering service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Free Headspace App to support your wellbeing
• Colleague matched fundraising scheme up to £500 per year for your chosen charity
• 20% off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Flexible working patterns
• Welsh Water also recruit Welsh Water's own volunteer Wellbeing Champions annually, with successful recruits receiving full i-act and StRaW training

Join Welsh Water and contribute to a not-for-profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers every day and looking after Welsh Water's beautiful environment.