Overview
Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme – Innovation and Partnerships Project Manager
Location: West Yorkshire with requirement for flexible travel across Yorkshire & Humber. Work type: 37 hours per week between 8:00am–6:00pm, Monday – Friday.
Salary & Benefits
Starting salary: £32,000, rising to £37,000 by end of year 2
Extras: £2,000 signing bonus, annual bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + wellness day
Pension: Up to 12% company contribution
Permanent substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance
Flexible Benefits Package includes health cash plan, critical illness and dental insurance, life assurance flex (with partner cover), retail discounts, online GP access, cycle-to-work scheme, gym membership savings, and more.
Why Yorkshire Water?
Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over 5.4 million people. We’re more than taps and toilets—we protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire’s future. We tackle climate change and plan for droughts and floods, and we need talented graduates to help us do it.
Your Graduate Programme
Our two-year programme offers five placements across your allocated business area, complemented by a choice of placements to suit your development needs in core functions such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, and Procurement. You’ll gain hands-on experience, technical and leadership training, and support from mentors, managers, graduate alumni, and our Early in Careers team from day one.
By the end of the scheme, you’ll be ready to step into a permanent role and make a lasting impact.
Your Team
The Innovation and Partnerships functions cover a number of connected areas with opportunities to work across exciting topics, including identifying and delivering innovation opportunities, championing nature-based solutions, and contributing to strategies central to Yorkshire Water achieving our vision.
Innovation and Partnership activity is integral to driving growth through revenues secured during the Periodic Review process. You and your team shape Yorkshire Water’s strategic direction, taking a forward-looking approach to business planning. We are a technical and experienced team, accountable for meeting statutory and legal requirements while securing opportunities for growth and building influence.
The team delivers a programme aligned with current operational and emerging strategic risks, addressing challenges such as population growth, climate change, affordability and stakeholder expectations. We focus on creating commercial opportunities to support non-regulated growth within our portfolio. Our vision is to deliver resilience, improved service performance and business growth through a programme of R&D based on clear risk and opportunity.
Your Role
As an Innovation and Partnerships Project Manager you will:
* Follow all aspects of the Project Management lifecycle and ensure projects are delivered on time, within cost, and to quality standards; coordinate input and drive the project’s technical direction
* Work with colleagues in Procurement, Legal and Contracts to ensure work with partners and the supply chain is completed in a timely and professional manner, in line with Corporate Governance policies
* Collaborate with the Business Sponsor to maximise the chance of successful implementation across the lifecycle
* Ensure an effective communication plan exposes projects to maximum publicity and dissemination internally and externally
* Play an active part in delivering an annual review as part of the wider 5-year price review process
* Respond to, or coordinate responses to regulatory information requests
Requirements
Minimum 2:1 Bachelor's degree in a Science, Sustainability or Engineering discipline
Enthusiasm and a drive to succeed
If you have an enquiring mind and want to join our business at a time where you can make a difference to our customers, our environment and join our sustainability-led efforts – please apply!
Recruitment Process
We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.
If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.
Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
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