About the role

YEAR-LONG PLACEMENTS 2022

A fantastic opportunity to work with Northumbrian Water or Essex & Suffolk Water supporting delivery of key schemes working to enhance our assets, and improve the environment.

12-month (year-long) paid placement opportunities available that will start in September 2023.

Who we’re looking for

Are you an enthusiastic undergraduate student, with an interest in Engineering, construction project management or the Built Environment Sector?

We’re looking for undergraduate students to undertake a 12-month (year-long) placement.

During the placement, you’ll be paid the real living wage, as well as receiving invaluable skills and experience working on real Northumbrian Water construction projects. Towards the end of your placement we would expect you to have gained the knowledge and skills to be able to support project delivery in the role equivalent to an assistant project manager.

The safety and wellbeing of our people is our highest priority, to ensure this continues, placement students must be flexible including working from home, and be able to independently travel between work sites.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures and organisation.

Application Process

To apply, please upload your Covering Letter/CV (in 1 Document) by 5th May 2023.

If we’re impressed by your application, you’ll be invited to attend an interview w/c 22nd May 2023

Application Hints & Tips

Carefully read this advert and supporting information.

Covering Letter: We’d also like you to provide a Covering Letter – which is an opportunity for you

to stand out from the crowd! Remember – include why you’re interested in this opportunity and most importantly, why we should pick you!

CV: Your CV should demonstrate your unique blend of skills and experience. Remember - your CV will be the topic of discussion if we meet you for an interview.

Interview: If we’re impressed with your application, you’ll be invited to attend an interview. To ensure there’s plenty to talk about, we will send you some questions to research beforehand, as well as talk about during the interview.

Key Dates

The closing date for applications is Friday 5th May 2023.

The Shared Year-Long Placement Programme will run from September 2023 until August 2024.

Please Note: You will need to be available to work during this period.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.