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    The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of seven partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

    Now working in the latest Asset Management Period, known as AMP 7, we are working towards delivering an approximate £1.8bn programme of work until 2025. Are you ready to join us as we aim to deliver the most exciting and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

    With around 800 projects being worked on across the region, we work closely with Anglian Water and their customers to deliver the best infrastructure and non-infrastructure solutions to keep the water flowing.

    Do you have what it takes to transform society

    Within the UK, infrastructure is associated with 50% of the Greenhouse Gas emissions, 30% of which is attributed to the construction, operation, and maintenance of assets. Over the last decade the @One Alliance has delivered world leading results; reducing the capital carbon within the assets that it builds by 60% and working collaboratively with Anglian Water to significantly reduce its operational carbon footprint

    We truly care about the impact we have on the local, national and international stage now and in the future and to support this work, we are looking for two graduates to join our team; one focussing on Innovation projects and the other looking specifically at Carbon and Sustainability!

    What will you be doing as one of our new Innovation Graduates

    Joining a forward-thinking and driven Innovation team, you’ll focus on either helping our teams to find solutions to their current and future challenges by identifying value- added innovations or support the ongoing development and implementation of our carbon strategy and play a key role in supporting design and delivery teams in meeting our Carbon and Sustainability targets.

    You’ll take an active role in building our @One Alliance carbon, sustainability and innovation ‘brand’, including working directly with project teams and communicating widely about innovative carbon reduction opportunities.

    In addition, you’ll develop your soft skills and understand the importance of an efficient and proactive Innovation team in a dynamic and robust environment.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Develop positive and proactive working relationships with project teams to become one of the ‘go to’ individuals for innovation, carbon and sustainability knowledge to help project teams to deliver on @One’s targets
    • Use available data (both quantitative and quality) to provide insights into business challenges and the true root cause of problems that require innovative solutions
    • Work with @One’s suppliers to support their carbon reduction journey; helping upskill them and provide support in developing robust carbon assessments for their products and services
    • Understand the importance of stakeholders in innovation; develop sound stakeholder engagement approaches/ techniques/ strategies to smooth innovation projects landing
    • Be a positive advocate for the team and innovation within the business. Actively promoting the team's capability and offerings
    • Be involved in a host of projects which promote the use of innovation to enhance our social impact of the regions we serve.

    A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours

    To join us on this great career- launching opportunity, you’ll have completed, or due to complete, a degree in a scientific or engineering discipline and have an awareness and understanding of relevant industry standards and directives and how we need to apply in @One i.e. PAS2080.

    With passion for carbon reduction, sustainability and challenging the norm, you’ll be personable, approachable and enthusiastic as you look to learn and understand innovation and carbon in our industry. Not only will you be comfortable working with data, but also people, as you look to champion innovation and carbon across the business!

    As part of your application, please include a cover letter addressing the below points:

    • Which role you are interested in applying for
    • Why are you interested in joining the @one alliance?
    • What behaviours and values will you bring to the role and @one alliance?

    A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to: Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

    If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.

    About Us

    Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

    We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

    Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs. ​​​​​​​

    Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

    It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

    Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

    We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

    We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.