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Ready to own your future? At Scottish Water, our graduate programmes empower you to drive change, tackle real challenges, and shape Scotland’s future. This is more than just a launchpad for your career – it’s an opportunity to make a meaningful impact. As part of our team, you’ll play a key role in delivering essential services and infrastructure that help Scotland flourish every day.
You’ll be joining us at a fascinating time, as we transform into a more agile, innovative organisation that delivers outstanding service, delivers great value for money, and works in an environmentally sustainable way that goes beyond Net Zero. Start a career that’s built for you, today.
What you’ll do
Be at the heart of protecting one of Scotland’s most vital services, taking on challenges that directly impact millions of people. You’ll gain hands-on experience in incident management, emergency response, and security, playing a key role in ensuring swift, decisive action that keeps operations running smoothly and minimises disruptions for our customers.
By working alongside internal teams and external partners, including the Scottish Government and emergency services, you’ll help implement innovative solutions that ensure seamless service continuity. Throughout your programme, you’ll dive into emergency planning, business continuity, and security, making a tangible difference to the resilience of Scottish Water’s operations and helping secure the future of our essential services.
Take a look at the team hiring within this 2-year Specialist Graduate Programme:
Resilience & Security

This team ensures that Scottish Water is always prepared to maintain smooth operations under any circumstances. They develop and implement emergency response plans, manage incidents, and maintain security protocols to protect services and infrastructure. They also focus on training staff for incident response and ensuring the readiness of essential equipment. The team works closely with external partners like the Scottish Government, emergency services, and other utilities, coordinating efforts to ensure a swift and effective response when needed and ensuring the continuity of service for customers.
Over your two years with us, you’ll receive dedicated training to become a fully qualified Business Resilience Adviser, building the skills and confidence needed to succeed.
How does the graduate programme work?
– You’ll be employed on a permanent contract from day ine, with a starting salary of £29,000.
– As you progress through the programme and reach key milestones, you’ll be rewarded with salary increases that recognise your growth and commitment to ongoing learning. Upon completing the programme, you’ll also have the opportunity to advance into a Business Resilience Adviser, starting from £33,560. For more details, please visit www.scottishwater.co.uk/graduates.
– You’ll be part of a cohort of c.30 graduates, giving you an instant and invaluable network of contacts throughout the business.
– There is plenty of support. As well as your day-to-day manager, we’ll match you up with a mentor who will support and coach you as you go through your programme.
– You’ll have access to both structured and informal training designed to equip you with the skills you need now, and in the future.
Looking out for you

While the work we do is important, it’s not the only thing that matters. That’s why we make sure you have everything you need to find a good work-life balance.
You’ll get plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays). And you can even buy five more if you need a little extra time. You can also take paid time off to volunteer in your community.
When it comes to major life events we have family-friendly policies around adoption, maternity, and parental leave. And for the everyday? We embrace flexible working.
For your future, there’s our pension (the ‘know-what-you’ll-get-when-you-retire’ kind), as well as life assurance.
As for some nice extras? You can expect an annual company bonus. Not to mention access to SW Splash – handy rewards that can save you money on holidays, bills, and shopping.