United Utilities, has opened applications for its 2027 graduate and intern programme - there are 50 graduate roles and 15 internship opportunities available across several business areas including roles in engineering, environmental, commercial, as well as data and analytics.

At a time when graduate opportunities are becoming harder to find, Anglian Water and its Alliances, the @one Alliance and Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA), are going in the opposite direction, launching their biggest-ever graduate programme.

United Utilities has widened the range of roles it is offering graduates and apprentices as it welcomes its latest cohort this month. This year’s group – made up of 48 graduates and 77 apprentices – are guaranteed permanent employment at the company when they finish their schemes.

Pennon Group has opened applications for its two-year Graduate Management Programme for 2024 within the water industry.

United Utilities has launched an early recruitment drive for new graduates in September 2024 – the company is urging students who have entered or recently completed their final year of university to consider a career with the North West’s water company.

Yorkshire Water has opened applications for graduate roles in five areas of business: data science, operations, strategy and regulation, commercial and science.