Programme Graduate - Electrical Engineering
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
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.
Permanent substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance
Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme - Graduate Electrical Engineer
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 5.4 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 visit 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 be the same.
Our Electrical Engineering team provides the electrical engineer expertise to provide safe electrical systems and support the business’s aspirations for net zero carbon by 2030 and underpins excellent customer service and protects the environment via improved power supply resilience. Through our pursuit of modernisation the team forms a centre of excellence for the promotion and development of zero carbon initiatives, power supply resilience and power system safety and reliability initiatives.
As a member of the Electrical Engineering Team you could be:
* Involved with the company wide Electrical Safety Improvement Projects.
* Providing operational and technical support on electrical systems at voltages up to 11,000V.
* Developing standards and policies to achieve the company's aspirations for 'A thriving Yorkshire right for customers, right for the environment' via the adoption of a mixture of established and emerging technology.
* Supporting, and where applicable instigating, projects to support the companies target for net zero, improved power resilience and safety.
* Providing technical support and advice to new construction projects throughout the company to ensure maximum value utilises the most suitable products within the marketplace.
* Ensuring all persons working on Electrical Systems are suitably trained and experienced.
Your Role
* 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 Electrical assets
REQUIREMENTS
* Minimum 2:1 Bachelors degree in a Power or Electrical & Electronic Engineering discipline
* Enthusiasm and a drive to succeed
* UK Driving License and access to own vehicle
Key Dates
Closing date: 9th November 2025
Assessment Centres: between 17th November 2025 to 5th December 2025
Start date: 21st 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.
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