Waste Treatment Graduate Internship 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 lets hear about you

We are seeking interested applicants to be studying an Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, Geography or Engineering degree – that’s it!.... no prior experience needed.

Key skills / attributes that we’d be looking for from the successful candidate are;

• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Analytical
• Passion for the environment

Your Graduate Scheme

Operations is a business area that has a large variety of different work streams with a number of skills needed making no 2 days the same. This is a great opportunity for someone studying science or engineering that wants to use transferable skills on a practical level working in a team dedicated to Environmental Performance.

This Wastewater Operational Support internship role will see the successful candidate spend time primarily with the operational team but could also spend time with Biosolids and Science and Support as development. Project is dependent on background and business need, but likely be in the area of process improvements, business efficiency and risk reduction linked to Environmental Assessment Performance.

Your development

As a part of your programme, you may 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

Your internship will primarily be based North East Wales. However, 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 8th December. 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 offices near Chester between February/March 2025. Further information will be provided closer to the time.

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 contribution
• 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, & gym discounts.
• 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.