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Severn Trent Plc Careers Early Careers Summer placements
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Summer placements
Our summer placements are 8 or 12 week placements between June and August that are available for students who are currently studying an undergraduate degree.
Join us this summer
Our range of exciting Summer placements are 8 or 12 week work experience opportunities. They are designed to give you a range of skills and experience to complement your current university studies.
We'll welcome you into our wonderful world of water. Every day you’ll take steps to make our small corner of the world that little bit better.
Our placements
Have a look through our available summer placements and find the journey for you.
Cyber Security
Our Cyber Security Summer Placement offers a unique opportunity to explore how a regulated FTSE 100 business protects its systems, data, and infrastructure from evolving digital threats.
Location(s) | Coventry
Data Analyst
Our Data Analyst Summer Placement offers a unique opportunity to explore how data is used to inform decisions, improve processes, and drive performance across a regulated FTSE 100 business.
Location(s) | Coventry and Derby
Data Science & Innovation
Our Innovation & Data Science Summer Placement Programme offers a unique opportunity to explore how scientific thinking, data-driven insights, and innovative approaches shape the future of water and wastewater services at Severn Trent.
Location(s) | Coventry
Engineering Design
Our Engineering Design Summer Placements Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business. The programme will enable you to spend time in both our engineering design and capital programme delivery teams, covering the end-to-end process of the project and programme life cycles across the water/waste network and the water/waste treatment facilities.
Location(s) | Coventry and Derby
Finance
Our Finance Summer Placements Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the core of our business and will give you an insight into four different disciplines of Finance, through three business placements.
Location(s) | Coventry
HR & Comms
Our HR and communications Summer Placements Programme offers real-life HR and communications projects. Open to students in related fields, it provides opportunities for professional growth, practical experience in HR practices, and impactful work within a supportive and dynamic environment.
Location(s) | Coventry
Operational Project Management
Our Operational Project Management Summer Placement offers a hands-on opportunity to explore how operational excellence and strategic thinking come together to support Severn Trent’s water network infrastructure. This role requires travel around our reagion for up to 50% of your time.
Location(s) | Coventry
Project Management
Our Summer Placements Project Management Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the frontline and the core of our business. The programme will enable you to work on a range of projects from delivering corporate strategic objectives to significant technology/system changes that support Severn Trent’s strategic goals.
Location(s) | Coventry and Derby
Security & Resilience
Our Security & Resilience Summer Placement exposes you to both the operational foundations of how a regulated business protects its assets, people, and data, and the strategic direction of how we innovate to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Location(s) | Birmingham
Strategic Asset Management
Our Asset Strategy Summer Placement offers a unique opportunity to explore how we plan, optimise, and innovate our water and wastewater infrastructure across a regulated FTSE 100 business, ensuring we provide value to our customers and the environment.
Location(s) | Coventry
Strategic Delivery Office
Our Strategic Delivery Office Summer Placement offers a unique opportunity to explore the behind-the-scenes work that enables strategic programmes and projects to succeed across a regulated FTSE 100 business.
Location(s) | Derby
Strategy and Regulation
The programme comprises placements across our Economic Regulation, Strategy, Sustainability and Transformation teams, which you will have the opportunity to shape. This placement will give you a real insight into our business and provide you with the opportunity to learn about our strategic, regulatory and sustainability agendas.
Location(s) | Coventry
Technology
Our Technology Summer Placements Programme offers the perfect blend of personal and professional development, exposing you to the core of our business. The programme provides the opportunity to learn how to support and drive technological change through unique placements, allowing you to gain exposure to various teams within our Technology department.
Location(s) | Coventry
Find out more and see current vacancies on our application site.
See all available Summer Placements
No such thing as a silly question
We embrace curiosity. It's one of our core values. If you've got any questions about any of our graduate schemes or apprenticeships, just get in touch with our team.
Email our Early Careers team