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About United Utilities 

United Utilities is the UK's largest water-focused utility company regulating water and wastewater management. United Utilities is involved in supplying and providing billions of liters of drinking water and recycled wastewater to the residents in North West England. The utility company also has an electricity distribution subsidiary.

Your role

About the team:

• The successful Place-Based Planning Analyst will work directly with the Place-Based Planning Manager in the Catchment Planning, Conservation, and Partnership team. 
• The Catchment Planning, Conservation, and Partnership (CaPCoP) team is newly formed and responsible for providing environmental leadership through developing and embedding robust plans that promote nature-based interventions and protect the natural ecosystems the services rely on.
• The team works in an integrated and collaborative manner with other teams in United Utilities, as well as with partner organizations to drive the Catchment Systems Thinking (CaST) approach.  

Key responsibilities for this role are:  

• Analysis of spatial data through the appropriate mapping software and determining the best way to represent it visually to the Integrated Water Management (IWM) team and stakeholders;  
• Identify and obtain additional (or new) datasets that could be used to support analysis and keep the data catalog up to date;   
• Quality assurance and process documentation of the data sources;   
• Managing a digital library of geographic program data in various file types;   
• Create new spatial data sets by geographically representing data, as well as through digitizing spatial information for use in geospatial analyses;    
• Prioritize the data and develop routines to create integrated opportunities against pre-defined objectives;   
• Produce maps that will inform the IWM team and stakeholders by overlapping various datasets;   
• Run queries, and produce reports/ slide pack visuals in line with IWMP governance and stakeholder meetings;  
• Create and maintain cluster trackers and work alongside the Business Change Managers to ensure the trackers are as complete as possible to enable cluster screening; 
• Support the IWMP team with the Ofwat Innovation Fund: Digital Platform if successful (from April 2024).

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the activities listed above are delivered on time and to a high quality. This internship will require working with partners in the IWMP team and wider within the partner organization, so there will be opportunities to interact and shadow other roles outside of the main responsibilities listed above. The Greater Manchester IWMP is high profile within United Utilities; therefore the successful candidate should be adaptable and able to flex their workload if the IWMP team needs to re-prioritise.

Other responsibilities will be to:

• Support the Place-Based Planning Managers with other analytical tasks when the need arises;  
• Support the CaPCoP team to coordinate performance reporting.

The role holder will also have access to other focal groups within the wider directorate which they may choose to get involved with, such as:

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Health, Safety and Wellbeing
• Engagement

Training & development

The integrated water management internship is a great opportunity to get exposure to the environmental sector, notably environmental work conducted within the water industry. Skills you will develop include data analysis, interpreting data, report writing, and internal and external communications. As your internship progresses, there will be substantial scope to take on additional responsibilities as you gain more experience and gain exposure to other areas of the team. During the 12 months, you'll have mentors and managers with you as you progress through your placement and support you as you work towards your personal development goals. 

Compensation & benefits

United Utilities offers competitive salaries and benefits and a working environment where you’re valued as part of the team. 

• Salary: £23,152 per annum 
• You'll also be eligible for a bonus of up to 7.5%.
• 26 days holiday 
• Dedicated training and ongoing support
• Innovative science labs
• coffee shops
• Onsite gym
• Access to an award-winning pension scheme - you'll pay 5% into your pot and you'll get an extra 10% from the company
• Employee share buy scheme.

Career progression

United Utilities is a company that offers brilliant career prospects for fresh graduates and interns. Its internship programs will allow you to gain a firsthand understanding of how the business operates. You will gain more experience and understanding of how United Utilities is building the capability to integrate the management of water at a sub-regional level for a successful career in the related field.

Work-life balance

United Utilities supports and is truly inclusive of its colleagues, It seeks to adapt and offer a range of options to help people balance their home and work life including flexible working arrangements to support part-time working and hybrid working, where possible. The working hours for this role are 37 hours per week.

Culture & vibe

United Utilities values diversity, providing equality of opportunity to everyone. The firm aims to create a workforce that’s representative of the region and customer base. It’s essential to them that they can create an inclusive and supportive working environment where all the employees feel valued and free to contribute to their full potential.

About you

What United Utilities is looking for:

• You will be aiming for/achieving a minimum of a 2:1 in an environmentally focused degree such as Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or Natural Science.
• This opportunity is aimed at someone who has graduated in the past year,  but providing you can demonstrate the required skills the firm will consider applicants who are still at university.  
• You must have a researched knowledge of the water industry and United Utilities.
• You must have strong and well-developed analytical skills, with attention to detail, the ability to interpret and analyze data, and contribute towards recommendations that consider the needs of the environment, customers, and businesses.
• The ability to use GIS is strongly desirable.  
• You should possess excellent written and interpersonal skills and can communicate and influence across multiple stakeholder groups, including being able to creatively use a range of media and presentation skills for qualitative and quantitative information in a means that can be understood by all. 
• You must be highly computer literate (in particular word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and GIS). You must demonstrate a willingness to learn and a genuine interest in/curiosity about Catchment management.
• You must be motivated and enthusiastic, understand the importance of teamwork, and possess ambition and drive to succeed and make the most out of your internship.
• You should be able to be comfortable working flexibly across a range of tasks and activities to deadlines and be able to prioritize your time. 

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• youtube.com/@unitedutilities
• unitedutilities.com/corporate/responsibility/employees/diversity/
• unitedutilities.com/corporate/careers/why-work-for-us/diversity-and-inclusion/