GRADUATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES 

Shape your future and the future of our business with an SSE Graduate Development Programme.

Our schemes offer a unique entry into our business, where you’ll experience several challenging and interesting placements. Expect to gain practical skills, hands-on experience and even relevant professional qualifications or charterships e.g. IMECHE, ICE and IET. We have several different graduate opportunities across the business with one thing in common: Across the two years of the programme, you’ll gain real hands-on experience, build an invaluable network and develop a unique set of skills which will shape your career.

Types of Opportunities 

Business and Commercial 

Depending on the programme you choose, you could be involved in financial analysis, pricing and decision support, commercial and risk modelling. You’ll work on multiple live projects across the UK and be exposed to real business problems, that we’ll need your input to solve.

Engineering 

You’ll work on meaningful engineering projects from the get-go and play a big part in our quest to build a better world of energy for the future. We’ll need you to work quickly and reliably under pressure and take advantage of the many learning opportunities that’ll come your way. This may involve travel between our sites.

IT and Technology

SSE IT underpins the technology needs of all the different businesses that make up the SSE Group. Graduates on this scheme will rotate around many areas such as emerging technology, infrastructure support, system architecture and project management. You’ll learn just as much about how we use technology to support the business and our customers as you do the technical aspects.

Project Sales Engineering 

This a two year programme which would suit graduates with a keen interest in the Building Energy Management and Sustainability industry who want to actively pursue a sales career.  The first 12 months will be spent working in an intensive training room environment so that you can develop the competencies required to build a career in sales engineering and solution selling.  The second 12 months will be spent working within one of our project estimating teams. Upon completion of the programme you’ll be offered a role that is most appropriate to your skills and attributes.

Finance

In this programme you’ll combine academic study with work based experience. We’ll give you the opportunity to study towards the globally recognised ICAS Accountancy qualification while working across the Finance areas of the SSE businesses. You’ll have completed the ICAS exam programme by your third year and have achieved your Chartered Accountancy qualification.  On completion of the programme you will be offered a permanent position with the SSE plc Finance team.

Our People

Our profiles are a great way to find out more about SSE and what it’d be like to work for us, covering topics like training, projects, progression routes, support, benefits and opportunities to socialise at work. Find out what our people have to say about life at SSE.

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