Graduate Project Manager - Engineering

Project Management (Engineering) Graduate Programme

Let’s cut straight to it

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 to our environment, now and for future generations.

Let’s tell you more

Our Project Management (Engineering) Graduate Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business. Being part of the programme will enable you to spend time in different areas of our capital delivery and engineering teams through three inspirational placements, covering all areas of project management. This includes the end-to-end process of project and programme life cycles, water/waste networks design and delivery, and water/waste treatment asset design and delivery.

As a graduate project manager, you’ll build your experience and knowledge. Guided and mentored by expert industry professionals, you’ll explore the full lifecycle of project delivery, planning and management. You’ll also get an insightful look into our water and wastewater treatment process, learning about different aspects of the business while addressing real-life challenges and driving tangible change.

What will you learn?

We want people to get stuck in and grow their capability for the long term. You will be coached and mentored throughout your programme, learning how to:

• Demonstrate a pro-active attitude to deliver project outcomes – lead meetings, capture outputs and actions, engage project teams and contractors to deliver outputs outlined in your project plans, and lead from the front.
• Identify solutions to problems on your projects – seeking support from management as required.
• Proactively progress and close project actions – within the required timeframes to progress projects to completion.
• Complete contract actions within stated timescales.
• Demonstrate and provide confidence to management – ensuring control of your project’s status and planned actions to deliver positive outcomes.
• Demonstrate the ability to understand and process technical and non-technical issues, producing plans with clear actions to overcome issues.
• Build a solution-oriented mindset to overcome challenges – using project stakeholders and your network.
• Build personal resilience, robustness, and maturity in dealing with unfamiliar or complex situations or with challenging stakeholders.

Typical off-scheme role

This can vary depending on your personal career ambitions and the business needs at the time. However, roles such as Assistant Project Engineer and Assistant Engineering Project Manager are examples of some of the roles our past graduates have taken on after completing the scheme.

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 Details

Programme Duration: 27 months

Starting Salary: £29,056

Entry Criteria

A Project Management, Construction or Engineering degree or a similar relevant discipline in an APM (Association for Project Management) accredited course is preferred.

Travel is required, so if you don’t currently have a driving license and access to your own vehicle, we ask that you are willing to obtain one within 12 months of starting the role. In the meantime, most of our main sites are accessible via public transport.

Typical contracts are for 37 hours per week, but there may be flexibility around the structure of your working hours, depending on 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:

• A ‘can-do’ attitude – willing to take accountability for decisions and actions and pride in their work.
• A love of variety in a role and the ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced working environment.
• The ability to quickly prioritize tasks and dive head-first into problem-solving. No two days are the same on the front line, and not every day goes to plan!
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and enjoys working with multiple teams.
• The ability to analyze and interpret information and effectively communicate this to team members and audiences.
• The ability to travel freely across our patch to visit different sites and attend meetings and training days.
• Curiosity to learn quickly in a dynamic environment and the capability to pre-empt challenges and issues.
• The care to look out for and be an inspiration to your colleagues.

Diversity and Inclusion

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

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How we’ll reward and care for you in return

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career. We offer a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work, and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. We’ll 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 options to buy/sell up to 5 days per year).
• Annual bonus scheme (up to £2,225 – subject to eligibility).
• A leading pension scheme where we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%).
• Sharesave scheme – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate.
• Dedicated training and development through our Academy.
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers.
• Family-friendly policies.
• Two paid volunteering days per year.

Additionally, you will receive an annual salary increase while you’re on the programme, along with another increase 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 will run from 17th February to 14th March 2025.
• Estimated start date: September 2025.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeatSevernTrent on social media.