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More than ever before we need inspiring graduates to join us and make the North West greener, healthier and stronger. We all know the challenges of climate change and by joining our graduate scheme you'll play a role in securing efficient, reliable water resources for customers across the North West.
You may know us for keeping the taps flowing and toilets flushing for customers in the North West, but we're also a responsible business who cares about delivering great customer service, protecting and enhancing the environment, caring for its communities, and making sure we're investing in the region to support future growth, address climate change and work in partnership to improve river health.
Whichever scheme is right for you, you'll be at the heart of bringing innovation and positive change to the water industry.
Ready to live your future?
You'll be rewarded for your commitment with a starting salary of £30,000, 26 days of annual leave every year, which will increase to a maximum of 30 days after four years' service, plus bank holidays. Our fantastic benefits include private healthcare, discounted gym, flexible holidays, and award winning pension scheme. We're proud to be one of the UK's top inclusive employers.
We are looking for graduates that have the capability to engage with people at all levels of the business and develop into outstanding leaders of the future. We're looking for inspiring individuals to help deliver our ambitious plans, drive performance and improve customer service in a safe working environment. Sound like your cup of tea? Start living your future today.
Our project managers are instrumental in delivery our multi-Billion pound capital investment programme to bring improved levels of service to our customers and the environment.
Job accountabilities
- Initially you will be responsible for supporting an existing project manager or project engineer in managing and delivering projects safely and on time, to cost and quality constraints. In this period you will become accustomed to managing other specialists to deliver project objectives. We believe working in an inter-disciplinary team is a key requirement in order to deliver innovative, reliable and cost effective solutions that are sustainable.
- To further embed your understanding of our objectives during the training scheme you will get to experience project delivery from other key roles including site construction management, risk management, contract and commercial management and project controls.
- Within the first two years of your three year programme, we want you to have developed your project management skills in either of our water, wastewater, better rivers or studies programme and gain an understanding of the technologies used, together with our company standards and procedures.
- During your programme, you will be expected to become familiar with the operations structure of United Utilities and how it interacts with the various programmes of work.
- No two days are ever the same. It's a mix of office based and site work, and we cover everywhere from Crewe to Carlisle.
- The final 12-months of the scheme will see you take on more responsibility, enabling you to take on projects of your own or play a greater role on more complex schemes. In this period you will be expected to show your ability to work with more limited supervision as you demonstrate your increasing project management competence.
- As well as liaising with and managing other project team members you may also get an opportunity to work with external stakeholders.
- As a trainee project professional you will need to have a flexible style to suit different situations and already be a proficient communicator and show an aptitude for prioritising tasks and making decisions.
Training and development
- United Utilities are a Corporate Partner with The Association for Project Management (APM)
- The three year graduate programme aims to have our graduates ready to work towards becoming chartered (ChPP) when they come off the scheme.
Knowledge and skills
- 2:1 Project Management Degree or 2:1 Science or Engineering Degree with a qualification or experience in Project Management
- Great interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
- Contract management/ commercial awareness
- Technical awareness/ competence
- Good team working skills, possessing ambition and drive
Additional information
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an assessment centre which are taking place between 6th-15th December 2023.
We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.
If you are offered a job with us, a number of pre-employment checks need to be carried out before your appointment can be confirmed. Any offer of employment with United Utilities will be subject to a satisfactory checking report from the Disclosure Scotland / the Disclosure and Barring Service.
