Whether you’re finishing school or planning your next steps, Northern is the perfect place to start your journey. Discover new ways to grow, learn and build a career that moves you forward with our early careers opportunities.
Each one of our pathways is designed to suit you individually. Earn while you learn in our Apprenticeship roles, gain invaluable real-world experience through our Year In Industry placements, or fast track your future with our 24-month Graduate Scheme.
We’ve made our recruitment process as straightforward and supportive as possible. It’s a mix of interviews, assessment days and some online tests. Each is tailored around the needs of the role, and you’ll be fully briefed on when to expect once you’ve applied.
This is more than just a job. It’s your chance to make an impact, learn something new every day and build a future that’s entirely yours.
Are you ready to find your platform?
Northern Apprenticeships
Northern offers outstanding opportunities to earn while you learn.
Graduate Scheme
As well as playing a vital role in Britain’s industrial heritage, the rail industry is pivotal in improving the lives of our current customers.
Graduate Scheme
As well as playing a vital role in Britain’s industrial heritage, the rail industry is pivotal in improving the lives of our current customers.
To do this effectively and sustainably, it is essential that we are equipped to embrace the technological and social challenges of the future, so we rely on nurturing forward-thinking, well-trained leaders across the business.
Our graduate scheme is designed to attract talented young people into the rail industry and equip them with the skills to become great managers of the future, including a place on the Leadership Development Programme created for all Northern’s new managers.
Our graduate trainees learn how to lead, whether they are interested in how to run a railway, in specialisms such as engineering or marketing, or in the support services that keep things moving behind the scenes. Our carefully tailored programmes facilitate a whole range of careers and equip graduates to make informed decisions about which pathway within Northern is the best match for their talents.
The training program builds experience across Northern’s business from Operations to Customer Service, Finance, Marketing, and more, through graduate events, training modules, and a range of development activities.
Trainees work closely with Senior Managers across the business, on projects with other Northern Graduates, and benefit from excellent support and mentoring programs.
Requirements
- Minimum 2:1 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
- Some work experience is useful, but not essential
- An appetite for working in a multicultural environment
- Leadership potential and/or substantial technical knowledge
- Strong communication skills and fluency in English
- A high-performance and achievement mindset
- An interest in experimentation and innovation
- The ability to think creatively
- To have graduated from a University in the North of England or already live in the North
Year in Industry
Northern’s Year in Industry Scheme is designed to complement a wide range of degree courses.
Year in Industry
Northern’s Year in Industry Scheme is designed to complement a wide range of degree courses.
The Scheme helps talented and ambitious students develop the kind of essential hands-on skills they’ll need to use alongside the theory they learn at university.
The scheme offers the chance to spend 44 weeks working as part of Northern’s team, in a variety of placements across our business, in Operations, Finance, HR, Revenue & Customer Service, Communications, Marketing, and more.
While we are a rail operating company, we can help you build your expertise in much more than just rail-specific areas. The scheme teaches the practical skills required to become a great manager, across a wide range of functions.
Requirements
- Applicants should be working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
- Some work experience is useful, but not essential
- Leadership potential and/or substantial technical knowledge
- Strong communication skills and fluency in English
- A high-performance and achievement mindset
- An interest in experimentation and innovation
- The ability to think creatively
Northern App
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Northern App
Streamline your journey and get tickets straight to your phone. Making your journey contact-free.