Programme Graduate - Electrical Engineering in Leeds

Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme – Programme Graduate – Electrical Engineering

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 + 2 wellness days
• Pension: Up to 12% company contribution
• Permanent substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance

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 four placements across your allocated business area and one placement within our wider business or an external partner organisation. 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.

Your Team

Engineering is a fundamental, enabling function residing at the heart of the way we manage our operational assets to deliver excellent customer service and protect the environment for the benefit of the people who live within and visit Yorkshire. With expertise spanning process, chemical, civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation we support every aspect of the asset lifecycle - from concept through to decommissioning – by creating and managing assets that can last more than 100 years and so, no two days can ever be the same. Our team ensures that capital investments are designed and constructed to provide safe, compliant, and serviceable operational assets that truly underpin excellent customer service and protect the environment.

Through collaboration with our suppliers, we deliver optimal engineering solutions to complex business needs by:

• Thoroughly understanding risks
• Reinvigorating or re‑purposing existing assets to avoid construction where possible
• Optimizing the design of assets we construct
• Maximising the value of our capital investment for customers and simultaneously minimising the environmental impact of our construction activity.

Role Responsibilities

As a Programme Graduate in Electrical Engineering you will:

• Inspect & survey assets to quantify asset health and performance
• Investigate and understand the root cause of a business risk
• Quantify the risk and assess regulatory compliance
• Identify and promote opportunities for targeted capital investment
• Identify safety / environmental hazards and support the engineering design processes to design and develop solutions that keep customers & colleagues safe and protect the environment
• Support, govern, and assure design processes
• Develop standard products, technical specifications, and improve working procedures/practices
• Identify and implement asset improvements that enhance asset security, resilience, performance, and reduce operating costs
• Validate that assets are constructed to accepted designs and standards
• Monitor asset health/performance and intervene to improve and protect Health, Safety, Wellbeing, and environmental protection

We recognise that each of our graduates will have different needs and ambitions. Therefore, our programme is designed to meet those individual needs so that you can shape your future career the way that suits you. We offer a balanced development programme throughout the duration of your two years with support from Sponsoring Managers, Graduate Champions and Mentors, as well as core programme team to support you from the day you make the decision to join us. We actively support all engineering graduates in their Path to IEng and C.Eng accreditation.

Requirements

• Minimum 2:1 M.Eng or B.Eng degree in the relevant Engineering discipline
• Enthusiasm and drive to succeed
• Full, clean UK driving licence and flexibility to travel across the Yorkshire and Humber region.

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

Recruitment Process

• Closing date: 14th June 2026
• Assessment Centres: 30th June at our current Head Office in Bradford.
• Interview dates: 2nd July 2026

We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply. If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre‑employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance. Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.