Are you passionate about caring for the environment? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Wastewater team, collaborating with the Proactive team, Sewerage Manager, and Investment Delivery to implement various pollution projects to benefit our customers, communities, and the environment.

    This includes taking responsibility for smaller initiatives, focusing on capital projects aimed at reducing pollution to minimise environmental impacts. You’ll collaborate with managers on pollution projects including Dual Manhole, vulnerable manholes and sewer level monitor installations, creating materials for investigations.

    Effective communication is essential as you will tailor updates for stakeholders at all levels. The regular updates you’ll provide will ensure positive feedback from stakeholders.

    You’ll assist in sewer investigations and regular maintenance, ensuring health and safety is at the forefront of everything you do.

    About you

    • If you have proven analytical and organisation skills, then we want to hear from you.
    • The successful candidate will use their ability to build positive working relationships to achieve common goals.
    • You’ll be pursuing a civil, environmental, or project management degree with a 12-month placement. Due to the nature of travel between sites you’ll need a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
    • Your skills in data analysis and trend identification will make informed recommendations. This will be underpinned by a strong commercial awareness and understanding of the water industry.
    • Overall you’ll be confident in engaging with new people, using a positive attitude to determine success.

    Here at Northumbrian Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

    Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

    We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

    Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

    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.

    We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

    NWG at a glance

    Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

    We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers. We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

    Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

    This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.

    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

    Our values

    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.

    Colleague benefits

    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.

    • Eyecare
    • Discounted Medicals
    • Employee assistance programme
    • Cycle2work
    • Buying selling annual leave
    • Long service awards
    • Salary sacrifice car scheme
    • Computer
    • Loans
    • Award winning wellbeing site
    • Nwg savings scheme
    • Company pension scheme
    • Preretirement workshops
    • Life assurance
    • Discounts cashback offers
    • Qualification loan

    About us

    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.