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Every day, we deliver one of life's most essential services to millions of people across the North West. From providing safe, high-quality drinking water to protecting the environment and supporting thriving communities, the work we do matters.
United Utilities Graduate Scheme
Hear from our graduates about life on the graduate programme, and what it's like to work at United Utilities.
We're now in the second year of our £16.5 billion investment programme, one of the largest transformation programmes in our history. It's an exciting time to join us as we improve our services, enhance environmental performance, embrace innovation and create a more sustainable future for generations to come.
There's more to us than just great water. We are where purpose flows.
What you can expect being a graduate in the Water Demand team:
Purpose: This role will be central to understanding water use in the North West and how we as a company can work with customers to reduce it by 9% by 2030.
Development: We are fitting one million smart meters by 2030 providing billions of meter reads a year. We need skilled data analysts to do cutting edge data analysis within Azure DataBricks to deliver water saving benefit at scale.
Responsibility: You will lead on exploring real life problems through data and working with the wider business to implement solutions that deliver real water saving impact.
What you’ll be getting stuck into day to day:
Helping drive digital transformation by using data to innovate and improve our water saving processes
Turning large sets of data into clear takeaways and actionable insights
Creating models and visualisations to support our strategies and daily operations.
Finding ways to improve our services, making them more efficient and effective
Taking on real life challenges whilst working as part of a team
What you’ll bring to the team:
To excel in thinking for yourself and problem solving
To take the lead and own work
To be data driven (with a good working knowledge of SQL/python or similar)
To be highly analytical and confident analysing data at scale
To be a great communicator
Preferably a 2:1 degree in a numerical discipline
Why join United Utilities as a Graduate?
By joining us on our 3-year graduate scheme, you'll not only get first-class training and support, but we'll also provide you with an in-depth understanding of your business area, ultimately giving you the confidence, skills and knowledge required to become one of our future operational, technical or people leaders, driving meaningful change.
What's in it for you?
We know that delivering a great service starts with supporting you, our people. That's why we offer a range of benefits designed to help you thrive both at work and outside of it.
Starting salary of at least £32,250 + £2,000 welcome bonus plus
26 days' annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 4 years + bank holidays
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policies
Up to 14% employer pension contribution
Access to colleague wellbeing programmes and dedicated mentors who will support you whilst on scheme
We’ll contribute up to £500 towards driving lessons and tests to help to get you on the road
Our commitment to opportunity for all
We're committed to creating a workplace where you feel you can belong and can succeed. Our colleague networks play an important role in this, these are:
GeneQ – supporting gender equality, parents and carers
Multi-Cultural & Faith
LGBTQ+
Armed Forces
Ability – supporting colleagues with disabilities and long-term health conditions
Additional Information
Once applications have closed, a member of the Early Careers team will review your application to ensure it meets the minimum requirements for your chosen role.
We anticipate this review process may take up to two weeks following the closing date.
Interviews are expected to take place between 17th November and 11th December.
We recommend that you are open and honest with us throughout the process and make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you may require. Rest assured, we don't use AI to screen your application at any stage of the process. A real person will review your application.
To ensure a fair recruitment process, we ask that you apply for only one Graduate role per recruitment year. Take a look at all our opportunities and apply for the one that interests you most.
Based on current immigration guidelines this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
We've signed the Gradcracker feedback pledge.
(This means that we will supply feedback if requested after an interview.)
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Job ID Number: UU06537
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