Graduate Engineering Design - Electrical

Taking care of 'one of life's essentials' – it's our purpose and we want you to be part of it. Supplying wholesome drinking water, treating wastewater, and recycling this back to the environment responsibly is no mean feat. We serve around 8 million people across the Midlands and Wales, and unlike other businesses, our delivery is non-negotiable. It's a matter of life.

Many of our employees are also our customers, so we truly take pride in what we do! Employing people from across our communities and beyond, Severn Trent is an exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be curious, can be 'Wonderfully You', and where you can truly make an impact on our environment, now and for future generations.

Let's Tell You More

Our Electrical Engineering Design Graduate Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business.

Severn Trent Capital and Commercial Services design and deliver water and wastewater infrastructure, including pipelines and treatment facilities. As a Graduate Engineer, the work you undertake will be interesting and varied.

The programme will enable you to spend time in our various capital design teams, working on the electrical elements of treatment and infrastructure assets that present solutions to tomorrow's problems.

How do we meet the challenge of population growth? How do we navigate extreme weather events becoming more frequent because of climate change? How do we deal with water shortages and longer droughts? How do we reduce our carbon emissions and mitigate the impact our business processes have on our planet?

These are all critical business challenges our teams are currently working to tackle, and you could work alongside engineers trialing some of the best technology and innovation in the industry, making ground-breaking changes for future generations to come.

You'll get a real insight into the sheer scale of engineering that goes into our water and wastewater treatment, the distribution of our water supply, and waste removal services through three unique 9-month placements across our engineering design teams. You'll learn about different aspects of our business while working on projects that will address real-world challenges and drive tangible change. You may work in a waste workstream designing sewerage systems or waste treatment designing tanks to facilitate sewage treatment, or in a clean water design team conducting distribution pipe design or clean water treatment plant design.

The aim of the programme is to create a pathway and give you the necessary tools to become a Chartered Electrical Engineer.

What Will You Learn and Bring to the Role

You will expand your knowledge of project and people management, learning how to effectively manage and influence stakeholders. You'll also gain a strong business and commercial acumen, developing your ability to plan strategically with time, cost, and quality in mind, and you'll learn what it takes to successfully design and deliver infrastructure projects across multidisciplinary teams and our supply chain.

You'll gain a deeper understanding of why and how we ensure we deliver with our customers at the heart of what we do, and how we communicate this message across our communities.

You will learn the following:

• Power & Telemetry Assessments
• Single Line Diagrams
• Network Diagram/Architecture
• Motor Control Centre Surveys
• Cable Block Diagrams
• Telemetry Requirements
• Design of a Motor Control Centre
• Design of Control Philosophies and Commissioning Plan
• Schedules (Load, Instruments)
• Lighting Assessments
• Lightning Assessments
• P&ID’s
• Contract documentation involvement
• Conducting site surveys, investigations, and asset condition assessments
• Scoping solutions as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Understanding Standards & Regulations, including construction design management

Typical Off-Scheme Role

This can vary depending on your personal career ambitions and the business needs. However, roles such as Graduate Engineer, Assistant Design Engineer, Design Engineer, and Assistant Project Manager are examples of some of the roles our past graduates have landed after the programme.

Our New Talent Team will guide you and support you every step of the way. Furthermore, your line manager, mentor, and buddy will be there to help you ensure you reach your full potential here at Severn Trent.

Programme Duration:

27 months

Starting Salary:

£29,056

Entry Criteria:

We require a degree in an IET-accredited electrical or electronics-related discipline meeting IET's CEng accreditation. BEng graduates will be encouraged to register for IEng with a requirement for further learning to be undertaken for CEng registration; MEng graduates do not.

Travel is required for this role as our design teams work from multiple offices, and site visits are an important part of the job. Therefore, it's important you hold a full UK driving license and have access to a vehicle.

Typical contracts are 37 hours per week, however, there may be flexibility around the structure of your working hours, subject to your team and line manager.

What We're Looking For

We want our employees to care and to have a genuine passion for what we do as a business. We need people who want to make a difference in providing a vital service to our customers, now and for the long term.

We'd love you to be someone with...

• An interest within the water industry
• Problem solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Experience working across multiple disciplines
• An interest in protecting the environment

Diversity and Inclusion

At Severn Trent, we are passionate about our people. We want to ensure that we continue to foster a diverse, inclusive, and cohesive culture that represents the communities and customers we serve. We ensure we're keeping up progress with our supportive working groups – LGBTQ+, Women in Operations & STEM, Disability and Ethnicity, who help us with our ongoing commitments.

How We’ll Reward and Care for You

It’s not just a job you’ll get here; you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognize great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. We also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live.

Here are some of our favourites:

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (with the ability to buy/sell up to 5 days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (up to £2,225, subject to eligibility)
• Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Dedicated training and development with our Academy
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family-friendly policies
• Two paid volunteering days per year

As if that isn’t enough, you’ll receive an annual salary increase whilst on the programme, and when you move into your first job.

Let's Go!

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

• Roles close on: 31st January 2025
• Face to face assessments: 17th February – 14th March 2025
• Estimated start date: September 2025

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