Management Graduate 2025

Bath-times, half-times, party-times, meeting-times, and cooking-times. Our 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.

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

We’re the engineers and scientists, rangers and customer advisors that keep the taps flowing and keep our customers happy. We’re in every community. And for every community. We’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 us, let's hear about you

We are seeking interested applicants to have achieved a Business, Engineering, Science, Environment, Safety or a Humanities degree – that’s it! No prior experience needed. Key skills/attributes that we’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, we have developed a Graduate Programme, which will develop leaders for the future, which promotes work to be completed across the business in a compliant manner, safely, on time and to budget, whilst motivating our people to continually improve what they do and ‘earn the trust of our customers every day’.

It's our job to look after your water, and although rain falls freely from the sky, we put a lot of work, energy and love into getting every single drop of water to you. We supply high quality drinking water to over 3 million customers in over 1.4 million homes and business across Wales.

That means cleaning and delivering more than 800 million litres of water every day. Supplying safe drinking water is our most important responsibility and this means that our tap water must be free from harmful chemicals and bacteria and have a good taste.

During your time as a Graduate, you will learn the foundations of leadership, effective team building and working together on how to lead and work effectively with others. These roles are primarily based in our 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. As part of your 6-month placement, here’s some of the departments / projects that you could be involved with;

• Water and Waste Services
• Improvement projects
• Change programmes
• Developing business awareness

Your development

As a part of your programme, you will take part in a number of soft skills workshops, including the following:

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

In addition, you will be given the opportunity to work on a variety of projects with your fellow graduates. These will allow you to develop your interpersonal and leadership skills, whilst working collaboratively with your peers. You will also be given the opportunity to work on key business projects within your specialised field.

Good to know

We are flexible with location, so if you want to work in Wales then apply. On occasions and with notice you may be expected to travel to sites across the whole of Wales and its borders.

Recruitment process: we are running our adverts until December 8th. Should your application meet our criteria, you’ll be sent a short assessment to complete. The second stage of assessment will be an in-person assessment centre, which likely take place at a location in Cardiff between February/March 2025.

Further information will be provided closer to the time. We are looking for a CV and cover letter that shows off how you will make a difference and add value. Hear what previous successful graduates have to say here.

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Several internal employee networks including Embrace, LGBT+, Neurodiverse, Disability, Women of Welsh Water, Parents, Wellbeing and many more...
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• 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 the value of £500 per year for your chosen charity
• 20% off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Flexible working patterns
• We also recruit our own volunteer Wellbeing Champions (on an annual basis) - successful recruits will receive full i-act and StRaW training

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.