Data Science Graduate

Data Science Graduate

Why Yorkshire Water?

Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over 5.4 million people. We protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire’s future, from tackling climate change to planning for droughts and floods. We’re solving some of the biggest challenges facing our region and we need talented graduates to help us do it.

• Starting salary: £32,000, rising to £37,000 by end of year 2
• Extras: £2,000 signing bonus, annual bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + wellness day
• Pension: Up to 12% company contribution
• Life assurance: 4x pensionable salary
• Permanent substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance
• Flexible Benefits Package
• Includes health cash plan, critical illness and dental insurance, life assurance flex (with partner cover), retail discounts, online GP access, cycle-to-work scheme, gym membership savings, and more.

Location: West Yorkshire with requirement for flexible travel across Yorkshire & Humber.

Work type: 37 hours per week between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm Monday – Friday

Our two-year programme offers five placements across your allocated business area, complemented by choices of placements to suit your personal development needs in core functions such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, and Procurement, enabling you to have a balanced understanding of the business. You’ll gain hands-on experience, technical and leadership training, and support from mentors, managers, graduate alumni, and our Early in Careers team from day one. By the end of the scheme, you’ll be ready to step into a permanent role and make a lasting impact.

Customer Experience is at the heart of how we develop a business that serves a thriving Yorkshire, right for customers, right for the environment.

As a Data Science Graduate, you will:

• Join our existing Business Insights and Service Planning team, within Customer Experience.
• Drive actions to improve the quality of data we hold and how we use it to make decisions as a business.
• Build predictive models to uncover insights using AI capabilities and machine learning.
• Influence the performance of the Customer Experience team by creating data solutions that solve current and future business challenges.
• Be assigned a line manager and a mentor from within the Business Insights and Planning Service community during your role.

• A minimum 2:1 Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject.
• An analytical mind capable of turning data into insights.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and highly pressured customer-centric environment.
• UK Driver’s Licence and access to own vehicle.
• Desirable previous experience.
• Experience in SQL, data manipulation & modelling, machine learning and data visualization are important for the role.

• Closing date: 9 November 2025
• Assessment Centres: 17 November 2025 – 5 December 2025
• Start date: 14 September 2026

We’re proud to serve Yorkshire and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive workforce that reflects our communities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Successful candidates will undergo pre-employment checks, including a Basic Disclosure via a third-party provider. Some roles may also require Counter Terrorist or Security Check clearance.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close applications early, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.