Location
Roles available region wide. Please note your placements may vary across the region and departments, so flexibility is essential.

Hours
Permanent, full-time role.

Salary
£33,000 per year

About the Role
Help shape the future of water, the environment and the communities we serve. With a plan worth over £11 billion of investment, we're building for better — for you, for the communities we serve, for our environment. As part of this, we are looking for you to join Anglian Water's Water Recycling Graduate Programme and tackle some of the biggest environmental and infrastructure challenges facing the region. From climate resilience and major engineering projects to digital innovation and customer experience, you'll develop the skills, experience and support needed to become one of our future leaders or specialists.

Your career path will involve working on real challenges that matter, developing expertise across your chosen profession while contributing to projects that support customers, communities and the environment. You'll learn from experienced colleagues, take on meaningful responsibility and build the skills, knowledge and confidence to shape your future career, while helping us shape the future of water.

Our two-year graduate programme offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience across various operational teams, developing the knowledge, skills and leadership capability needed to lead complex operational teams in the future. Through a structured programme, you'll work alongside experienced operational leaders, contribute to real business challenges and build a broad understanding of how we deliver safe, reliable and sustainable services.

You will complete a series of diverse placements designed to give you exposure to every aspect of operational leadership, including: responding to operational incidents, managing risks and maintaining service performance; identifying opportunities to improve performance, resilience and efficiency through planning and optimisation; gaining hands-on experience working directly with operational teams and understanding the realities of day-to-day service delivery; learning how financial, contractual and commercial decisions support operational success; understanding how we transform waste into valuable resources while supporting environmental and sustainability objectives; gaining insight into water production, distribution networks, customer outcomes and operational performance; and developing an understanding of safety leadership, risk management and regulatory responsibilities.

You'll also benefit from shadowing opportunities across teams which support our front-line operational teams, providing valuable insight into how decisions are made across the business and how effective leaders create high-performing teams. Throughout the programme, you'll be supported by mentors, technical experts and operational leaders while delivering meaningful projects that create real value for the business.

This is more than a graduate programme. It's a pathway to becoming a confident, capable operational leader with the breadth of experience needed to drive performance, innovation and continuous improvement across our operational teams.

Experience
We are looking for curious, ambitious individuals who enjoy solving problems, working collaboratively and bringing different perspectives to the challenges we face. Experience in the water industry is not required but a passion for technology and the sector is welcomed.

About you
You should be ready to learn, adaptable and motivated to help shape the future of water while developing a successful and rewarding career. Flexibility to work across different locations and departments is essential.

Qualifications
You must have obtained in the last 3 years or be studying towards a minimum 2:2 in any degree discipline and have graduated by September 2027 for the 2027 intake.