The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of eight partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.
We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.
With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.
We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?
About Sweco
Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.
Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.
We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.
To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.
What will you be doing as our new Project Management Graduate?
Completing placements and value-added projects across our Project Delivery, Commercial, Engineering, Solutions and Site/Commissioning teams, you’ll not only develop your project management skills, but you’ll also implement tangible improvements which you can look back on with pride.
Ensuring we build our in-house project management expertise, you may find an area of our business which you thrive in and are passionate about, which we will fully support you with.
Viewed as a contributing member of the team where outputs are expected, this is a fantastic opportunity for you to gain exposure, understand where your interests lie and add real value!
Key responsibilities
- Develop an understanding of project management techniques which promote collaboration, synergy and out performance to deliver against our overall goals and objectives.
- Lead a variety of projects across different teams whilst honing your stakeholder engagement and management techniques.
- Using theory, innovation and investigatory techniques underpinned by data and evidence, suggest new ways of working/ approaching work.
- Be accountable for your own development by working outside of natural comfort zones and learning from mistakes.
- Utilise your presence in different teams to share knowledge and create efficiencies where possible.
About you
To join us in this fantastic career opportunity, you’ll hold, or be close to completing, a Business Studies or Project Management degree. Whilst previous project management and continuous improvement exposure would be beneficial, we are more focused on your potential to grow and behaviours.
Operating as a personable, enthusiastic and innovative individual, you’ll be keen to learn and utilise the experience around you to develop yourself. Always operating with the customer at the heart of what you do, you’ll be able to pick up new IT systems quickly and optimise their outputs to produce data and analysis to underpin your ideas to enhance procedures and processes, and ultimately, outputs.
If you are an enthusiastic Graduate who is looking for an opportunity to deliver and develop your skill set in a dynamic, supportive and exciting environment, please apply today!
