Graduate Roles

Join our two-year development programme

Our two-year core Graduate Development Programme is taught through hands-on experience and a mixture of in-person and virtual sessions.

Throughout, you’ll be working on real projects and have real responsibility.

Once you’ve finished the programme, you can keep learning for as long as you want to. We believe in continuous development here at Veolia and actively encourage and support all our people to keep going.

Some of the areas you’ll learn more about include:

 
  • Graduate Induction
  • Risk Awareness
  • Manual Handling and Fire Awareness
  • Communication Skills
  • Environmental Awareness
  • Project Management
  • IOSH Working Safely
  • Influencing and Negotiation Skills
  • Personal Brand
  • Networking
  • 360 Coaching
  • Psychometric Insights
 

Whether it’s through training, shadowing, mentoring or coaching, our goal is to offer you the perfect chance to grow on both a personal and professional level. On top of that, you’ll also have open access to our HR team when it comes to your development, so you’ll have support no matter where you are.

 

How we’ll reward you

Culture and benefits

  • Competitive salary starting from £27k to £33k per annum
  • Company pension scheme
  • 25 days of holiday
  • Lifetime insurance
  • Mental health and wellbeing support
  • Work flexibility in many of our roles
  • Contribute to our Ecological Transformation and support the communities we work in

Career development

  • Technical excellence and industry-leading training and development
  • Mentoring and buddy scheme
  • Networking across all levels of the business
  • Leadership and management development
  • Dedicated Emerging Talent Team
  • Opportunities to study for additional qualifications and gain Charterships

How to apply

Do you have passion, ambition and an eagerness to learn?

Perhaps you have some innovative ideas to help tackle climate change, or maybe you work really well in diverse teams. If so, it sounds like you’d fit in with a career at Veolia and we’d love to hear from you.

To apply, all you need to do is follow our application process – it’s how we keep things consistent and fair for everyone.

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Online registration

You will be asked to complete a couple of short questions where you will be able to demonstrate your passion and suitability for the position you selected.

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Strengths Based Assessments

You will next need to complete strengths based assessments, which will help us identify and leverage your natural talents and strengths.

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Virtual Assessment Day

If you are shortlisted at this stage, you will next be invited to a virtual assessment day. Here, you will be able to demonstrate your passion for joining us and find out more about the roles we have on offer, as well as our apprentice programmes.

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Meet the team and a site visit

If you are successful at the virtual assessment stage, you will be invited for an informal ‘meet and greet’ at one of our sites Here, you will meet our teams and see where you’ll be working.

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Feedback

Congratulations on reaching this far! Regardless of the outcome, our Emerging Talent team will provide you with feedback to help you with any future applications.

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At each stage, someone from our Emerging Talent team will keep in touch and let you know how you did and if we’d like to see you again. Feedback is important, so we’ll share constructive thoughts whether you’re successful or not. 

Before you apply, the best thing you can do is make sure you understand what the graduate programme involves, and the development that’s on offer. We also suggest following us on social media, to see what we’ve been up to lately. A little research goes a long way!

Want to know more?

We hope you’ve found all the answers you’re looking for, but if you’ve got further questions or require more help, get in touch with the Emerging Talent team at

[email protected]