Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme – Graduate ICA Engineer
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
Life assurance: 4x pensionable salary
Permanant 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.
Location: West Yorkshire with requirement for flexible travel across Yorkshire & Humber.
Work type: 37 hours per week between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm Monday – Friday
Why Yorkshire Water?
Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over million people. But we’re more than taps and toilets—we protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire’s future.
From tackling climate change to planning for droughts and floods, we’re solving some of the biggest challenges facing our region and we need talented graduates to help us do it.
Your Graduate Programme
Our two-year programme offers you five placements across your allocated business area, complemented by a choice of placements to suit your personal development needs in core functions such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, and Procurement, enabling you to have a balanced understanding of the business. You’ll gain hands-on experience, technical and leadership training, and support from mentors, managers, graduate alumni, and our Early in Careers team to support you from the day you make the decision to join us.
By the end of the scheme, you’ll be ready to step into a permanent role and make a lasting impact.
Your Team
Engineering is a fundamental, enabling function residing at the heart of the way we manage our operational assets to deliver excellent customer service and protect the environment for the benefit of the people who live within and visitor Yorkshire. With expertise spanning Process, Chemical Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation we support every aspect of the asset lifecycle - from concept through to decommissioning – by creating and managing assets that can last more than 100 years and so, no two days can ever the same.
Our Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA) Engineering team designs, creates, upgrades, improves and modifies and embeds mission-critical operational assets that truly underpin excellent customer service and protects the environment. Through our pursuit of modernization we are building and embedding the foundations for our Industry future by:
Increasing both the depth and breadth of asset health and performance monitoring
Implementing and integrating ever-more connected automation technologies
Reinforcing the resilience and security of ICA assets
Expanding, enhancing and renewing our ICA estate
Unlocking and embedding the potential that Machine Learning systems and eventually, Artificial Intelligence offers the business.
Your Role:
As a Graduate ICA Engineer you will:
Investigate and understand the root cause of asset failure
Identify and promote opportunities for targeted capital investment
Identify safety / environmental hazards and support the engineering design processes to design and develop robust control systems that keep customers & colleagues safe and protect the environment
Design and implement asset improvements that enhance asset security, resilience, performance and reduce operating costs
Assist in the renewal, improvement and expansion of complex control systems
Develop and trial Reliability Centred Maintenance that prolongs the life of ICA assets
What you’ll need to be successful:
Minimum 2:1 Bachelors degree in a Control and Automation or Electrical & Electronic Engineering discipline
Enthusiasm and a drive to succeed
UK Driving License and Access to own vehicle
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!
Key Dates
Closing date: 9th November 2025
Assessment Centres: between 17th November 2025 to 5th December 2025
Start date: 14th September 2026
We’re proud to serve Yorkshire and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive workforce that reflects our communities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Successful candidates will undergo pre-employment checks, including a Basic Disclosure via a third-party provider. Some roles may also require Counter Terrorist or Security Check clearance.
Kelda Group reserve the right to close applications early, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.