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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

Role overview:

• In the commercial department, the successful student will join a large team working on real business projects, carrying out a variety of quantity surveying tasks.
• You will engage with operational and senior stakeholders; and support the alignment of business strategy and policy to deliver category plans. You will ensure contractual compliance and proactively manage contractor performance throughout the contract period.
• You will benefit from the shared knowledge within the commercial team and the expertise of working with colleagues across the wider capital delivery team including engineers, project managers, and PMO professionals, whilst also developing your specialist skills and providing a valuable contribution to the team.
• The firm will help you gain an understanding of the projects being undertaken by United Utilities and the methods used to deliver them.
• Specific tasks may be assigned during this time. 
• During your 3 month internship, you may also be allowed to visit some of the sites.
• You'll see how the firm carefully produces clean safe drinking water and how they treat wastewater to release it safely back into the environment.

Training & development

During your 3 month Internship, you will have the dedicated training and support to help you develop and reach your potential. You will develop your commercial skills whilst gaining real-world experience working alongside quantity surveyors in supporting the commercial function by delivering projects within the category plan ensuring optimum value for money for UU. You will be accountable for delivering these with the support of experienced engineers and your line manager.

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 
• Holiday entitlement is 26 days per leave
• Dedicated training and ongoing support
• Innovative science labs
• Award-winning contact centers
• Onsite gym
• If you want to join an FTSE 100 company that wants to disrupt the water industry and you want to make a positive change in the world United Utilities would like to hear from you.
• United Utilities celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.
• Due to the length of your program being 3 months, you will be engaged via the resourcing partner Reed Talent Solutions.

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 also get the opportunity to mix with current graduates who can share experiences, tips, and guidance with you for the next steps in your career. 

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:

• United Utilities is looking for undergraduate quantity surveyors studying a BSc Quantity Surveying who have completed as a minimum first year of a degree or equivalent.

To apply you need to:

• Have researched and know about United Utilities construction activities.
• Be working towards a BSc Quantity Surveying degree or a Construction related course.
• Have varied technical knowledge, not only through academic experience but also through social and professional experience.
• Have a basic knowledge and awareness of key quantity surveying processes, tools, and methodologies used across the project life cycle.
• Have good computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel.
• Be motivated and enthusiastic, and an excellent team player, processing ambition and drive.
• Process good written and interpersonal skills and can communicate and influence across all levels.
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Be able to be comfortable working flexibly across a range of tasks and activities to deadlines as well as being able to prioritise your time.
• Potentially to work unsupervised from home.
• Able to get to Lingley Mere in Warrington.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

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