Graduate Planner

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About our Graduate Programme
We want you to be the best you can be, so we are proud to offer a two-year graduate programme that offers you the opportunity not only to learn your graduate role but take part in fantastic development to help you reach your full potential. You will get the chance to learn from our talented colleagues, be mentored, take part in masterclasses, Insights, development days, an induction week and bespoke graduate training. Making a difference from day one is key to what we offer so keep reading about this graduate opportunity and apply today
We are looking for a Graduate Planner with an interest in the water industry to work with our delivery team helping to deliver a growing workload for our client, Severn Trent Water in Midlands area. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within an exciting and growing team on a variety of programmes covering clean water and wastewater networks infrastructure.
As a Graduate Planner you will support the delivery team in learning to build a delivery programme in accordance with the contract. You will split your time between working in the Birmingham office, making occasional site visits and working from home. You will collaborate with the team, the Senior Planning Manager to ensure successful programmes.
This role is a September 2025 start.
Produce programmes, reports and/or extract schedules using customised filters as required by the project team.


~ Attend progress meetings with internal and external customers and develop the ability to deliver presentations on project progress.


~ Identify, communicate and add key programme risks to the risk register.


~ Perform continuous project integrity checks to ensure the integrity of the programme.


~ Support the Senior Planning Manager with any adhoc requests.

We want our graduates to challenge the status quo, encourage different points of view and drive creativity as well as bring insights from your education and life experiences to the role; You should be agile, resilient and ready to take on real industry challenges.
We would like you to be graduating in 2025 or have recently graduated and hold at least a 2:2-degree qualification. You will be computer literate, have good written and oral communication skills and the ability to work individually and as part of a team. A degree in either Civil Engineering or a degree which has strong analytical/data elements would benefit this role.
In addition to this, we understand that one size doesnt fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.

~24 days holiday plus bank holidays
~ Company pension scheme Life assurance
~ Private GP Helpline & Health Cash Plan
~ Avove Discount Scheme
~ Family friendly policies
~ Financial wellbeing programme
~ Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
~ We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

We design, build and maintain the UKs utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.
We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment. We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water.
We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages and sexual orientations. When it comes to inclusion, were making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.
We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.
If you need any support with CV or interview skills, or to learn more about our early careers programs, please visit the early careers pages of our website.