Job Description

Salary & Benefits

Starting salary: 32,000, rising to 37,000 by end of year 2 Extras: 2,000 signing bonus, annual bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + wellness day Pension: Up to 12% company contribution Life assurance: 4x pensionable salary Permanent substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance

Flexible Benefits Package

Includes health cash plan, critical illness and dental insurance, life assurance flex (with partner cover), retail discounts, online GP access, cycle-to-work scheme, gym membership savings, and more.

Location:

West Yorkshire with requirement for flexible travel across Yorkshire & Humber.

Work type:

37 hours per week between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm Monday - Friday

Why Yorkshire Water?

Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over 5.4 million people. But we're more than taps and toilets--we protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire's future.





From tackling climate change to planning for droughts and floods, we're solving some of the biggest challenges facing our region and we need talented graduates to help us do it.

Your Graduate Programme

Our two-year programme offers you five placements across your allocated business area, complemented by a choice of placements to suit your personal development needs in core functions such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, and Procurement, enabling you to have a balanced understanding of the business. You'll gain hands-on experience, technical and leadership training, and support from mentors, managers, graduate alumni, and our Early in Careers team to support you from the day you make the decision to join us.





By the end of the scheme, you'll be ready to step into a permanent role and make a lasting impact.





You don't need to have a technology degree, but you will need a keen interest in technology and how it can enable the business.

Your Team:

Technology is at the heart of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.





The role of a Graduate Technology Future Leader is a vital one as you will help ensure that water quality targets and standards relating to specific legislation are met. This will ensure that we provide our customers with a wholesome water supply that everyone can enjoy.

Your Role:

As a

Graduate Technology Future Leader

you will:



Undertake placements in the different teams the make up the Technology function, such as Architecture, Change, Infrastructure and Operations, Data and Security Develop your technology knowledge and business skills; we expect our Technology Future Leaders to move into junior tech leadership roles such as Junior Project Manager Work as part of a larger team to deliver solutions to business problems; some of the roles that you might work in are as a project analyst, operations specialist, PMO analyst, data governance specialist, security specialist For your duration on the programme you will be assigned a line manager and a mentor from within the senior tech community

What you'll need to be successful:

Minimum 2:1 Bachelors degree. An interest in technology, and how it can be used to solve business problems - there is no expectation that you will be able to code Security vetting - Yorkshire Water will facilitate this for successful candidates Enthusiasm and a drive to succeed




If you have an enquiring mind and want to join our business at a time where you can make a difference to our customers, our environment and join our sustainability led efforts - please apply!




Please click on the button to apply and complete our graduate application form.

Key Dates

Closing date:

9th November 2025

Assessment Centres:

between 17th November 2025 to 5th December 2025

Start date:

14th September 2026




We're proud to serve Yorkshire and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive workforce that reflects our communities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.





Successful candidates will undergo pre-employment checks, including a Basic Disclosure via a third-party provider. Some roles may also require Counter Terrorist or Security Check clearance.





Kelda Group reserve the right to close applications early, so we recommend applying as soon as possible