Graduates

Graduate schemes and Year in Industry Programmes

Our range of exciting graduate programmes take from 1 to 4 years. They're designed to give you a range of experience and skills to drive your career forward. Our graduates contribute to real change, helping us meet our bold ambitions. 

We'll welcome you into our wonderful world of water. Every day you’ll take steps to make our small corner of the world that little bit better. 

Take that next step

Whether you're a graduate starting your career path, or are looking for a year-in-industry placement, we have schemes for everyone.

Join our journey

Are you eager? A team player? A born leader? Ready for your next step?

At Severn Trent, we're more than just water. We're our colleagues, our communities, and our commitment to give back.

With several graduate programmes, from office to operational, from engineering to finance, we are your foot in the door and a lifelong career.

We look for curiosity and passion, not qualifcations or experience. We embrace diversity and are proud of your differences. We're creating a workplace that's fair for all and a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

We protect our planet and take care of one of life's essentials by supporting our natural environment, and restoring and protecting our rivers by making the most of our resources and getting to net zero emissions by 2030.

So take that next step and be part of our journey.

Graduate schemes

Have a look through our available Graduate programmes and find the journey for you.

Finance Graduate Programmme

Location: Coventry

Our Finance Graduate Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the core of our business and will give you an insight into four different disciplines of Finance, through three business placements.

Graduate Leadership Programme

Location: Coventry

Our Graduate Leadership Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to frontline operational and core business departments through 3 x unique 9-month placements.

During this time, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of our business and how we work collaboratively to provide services across water and waste.

Engineering Design Graduate Programme

Location: Various

Our Engineering Design Graduate Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business.

The programme will enable you to spend time in both our engineering design and capital programme delivery teams covering the end-to-end process of the project and programme life cycles across the water/waste network, and the water/waste treatment facilities.

Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Hydraulics Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Modelling Engineering
Process Engineering
Graduate Strategy and Regulation

Location: Coventry

The programme comprises of 3 x 9-month placements across our Economic Regulation, Strategy, Sustainability and Transformation teams, which you will have the opportunity to shape.

Each placement will give you a real insight into our business and provide you the opportunity to learn about our strategic, regulatory and sustainability agendas. 

Graduate Project Manager

Location: Finham

Our  Project Management Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business.

The programme will enable you to work on a range of projects from delivering corporate strategic objectives to significant technology/system changes that support Severn Trent’s strategic goals.

Graduate Project Manager - Engineering

Location: Various

Our Project Management Graduate Programme in Engineering Delivery offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business. 

Data Analyst - Technology Graduate Programme

Location: Coventry

Our Technology Graduate Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the core of our business.

As a TechOps Desktop Analyst you’ll have the opportunity to solve business challenges during technology incidents and providing tech solutions for our colleagues. 

Commercial, Performance and Regulatory Graduate Programme

Location: Coventry

Our Commercial, Performance and Regulatory Graduate Programme Offers the opportunity to spend time in the Commercial, Charges and Assurance teams within Developer Services Central function understanding governance structures and commercial performance frameworks.

Operational and Environmental Leadership

Location: Various

Our Operational and Environmental Leadership programme will help you gain an understanding of the fundamentals of water and waste treatment whilst building the foundations to become our future operational managers or technical specialists.

On this programme you’ll get involved in tackling major operational incidents, night or day, keeping our customers at the heart of what we do by working collaboratively to maintain our services.

Treatment Process Engineering

Location: Various

You’ll get an insight into our water and wastewater treatment through 3 x 9-month unique placements across our treatment process engineering teams. You’ll learn about different aspect of our business whilst working on a range of projects which will help address real life challenges and drive tangible change.

Technology Leadership Graduate Programme

Location: Coventry

Our Technology Leadership Graduate Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the core of our business.

The programme provides the opportunity to learn how to support and drive technological  change through unique placements, allowing you to gain exposure to various teams within our Technology department.

Year in Industry programmes

Have a look through our available Year in Industry programmes and find the journey for you.

Year in Industry - Strategy and Regulation

Location: Coventry

The programme comprises of 12 months working across our Economic Regulation, Strategy, Sustainability and Transformation teams, which you will have the opportunity to shape.

You will gain a real insight into our business and have the opportunity to learn about our strategic, regulatory and sustainability agendas.

Year in Industry - Engineering Design

Location: Various

Our Civil, Electical, and Mechanical Engineering Design Year in Industry Programmes offer the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business.

The programme will enable you to spend time in both our engineering design and capital programme delivery teams covering the end-to-end process of the project and programme life cycles across the water/waste network, and the water/waste treatment facilities.

Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Year in Industry - Project Management

Location: Finham

Our  Project Management Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business.

The programme will enable you to work on a range of projects from delivering corporate strategic objectives to significant technology/system changes that support Severn Trent’s strategic goals.

No such thing as a silly question

We embrace curiosity. It’s one of our core values. If you've got any questions about any of our graduate scheme or apprenticeships, just get in touch with our team.  

You can email the team at potential@severntrent.co.uk