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Project Management Summer Placement
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**Project Management Summer Placement**
LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT
Taking care of ‘one of life’s essentials’ - it’s our purpose and we want you to be part of it.
Supplying wholesome drinking water, treating wastewater and recycling this back to the environment responsibly is no mean feat. We serve around 8 million people across the Midlands and Wales and unlike other businesses, our delivery is non-negotiable. It’s a matter of life.
Many of our employees are also our customers, so we truly take pride in what we do Employing people from across our communities and beyond, Severn Trent is an exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be curious, can be ‘Wonderfully You’ and where you can truly make an impact to our environment, now and for future generations.
LET’S TELL YOU MORE
Our Project Management Summer Placements Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business. Your placement will cover all areas of project management such as the end-to-end process of project and programme life cycles.
As a project manager, you’ll build your experience and knowledge. Guided and mentored by expert industry professionals, you’ll explore the full lifecycle of project delivery, planning and management.
You’ll get an insight into our water and wastewater treatment, learn about different aspects of our business whilst working on a range of projects which will help address real life challenges and drive tangible change.
We’re not seeking technical knowledge, we’re after the right people. We’re after those with drive, a get up and go attitude, a willingness to learn, passion, and pro-activeness.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
We want people to get stuck in and grow their capability for the long term. You will be coached and mentored throughout your programme learning how to:
- Demonstrate a pro-active attitude to deliver project outcomes - lead meetings, capture outputs and actions, engage project teams and contractors to deliver outputs as outlined in your project plans and lead from the front
- Identify solutions to problems on your projects - seeking to gain support from management as required
- Proactively progress and close project actions - within the required timeframes to progress projects to completion
- Complete contract actions within timescales stated
- Demonstrate and provide confidence to management - in control of your projects, status and planned actions to deliver positive outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to understand and process technical and non-technical issues, producing plans with clear actions to overcome issues.
- Build a driven mind-set working to overcome challenges seeking solutions - using project stakeholders and your network
- Build personal resilience, robustness and maturity in dealing with unfamiliar or complex situations or with challenging stakeholders.
HOW WILL THE PROGRAMME WORK?
You will be based at Severn Trent Centre, or Finham in Coventry or at our Raynesway offices in Derby. You will be able to complete either an 8 week or 12 week placement depending on your preference as well as what the business area currently has on from a project perspective.
In this exciting programme, you will have the chance to discuss your development and career ambitions in your 1-1 meetings with business leads, mentors, a study the cohort leader, and the New Talent Team.
ABOUT THE PLACEMENT
Location: Severn Trent Centre, Coventry, CV1 2LZ
Finham, Coventry, CV3 6SD
Raynesway, Derby, DE21 7BE
Programme Duration: 8 or 12 weeks
Starting Salary: £22,011 pro rata
Entry Criteria: A studying for a degree ideally in Project Management, Construction or Engineering or similar relevant discipline
You must be currently studying at a UK university and be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We want our employees to care and to have a genuine passion for what we do as a business. We need people who want to make a difference in providing a vital service to our customers, now and for the long-term.
We’d love you to be someone with
- A ‘can do’ attitude - willing to get stuck in, take accountability for decisions and actions and who takes pride in their work.
- A love of variety in a role and ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced working environment.
- Ability to quickly prioritise tasks and the initiative to dive head-first into problem solving. No two days are the same on the front line and not every day goes to plan, so you’ll need to be quick on your feet to respond
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and enjoy working with multiple teams.
- Ability to analyse and interpret information and effectively communicate this to different team members and audiences.
- Ability to travel freely across our patch to visit different sites and travel to meetings and training days.
- Curiosity to learn quickly in a reactive and dynamic working environment, and capab
