Engineering Standards and Governance Lead

Anglian Water Group; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Life assurance at 8x salary

Double-matched pension

26 days annual leave

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking an Engineering Standards & Governance Lead to shape maintenance standards across Bioresources assets, including CHP, gas, SRP and sludge treatment. You will partner with engineers, technicians and suppliers to ensure safe, risk-based and regulator-aligned performance.

This is a senior, influence-led role requiring governance, strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement to deliver practical engineering standards and robust assurance across operations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering maintenance standards and governance.
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into practical standards.
• Strong knowledge of asset reliability, risk, process safety and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop engineering maintenance standards for Bioresources assets.
• Translate technical requirements into practical standards and procedures.
• Embed standards into maintenance plans, procedures and asset-care activities.
• Provide governance, identify risks, variances and improvement opportunities.
• Define and maintain competency and authorisation requirements.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Maintenance standards

Risk-based thinking

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Salary: Circa £55,000, depending on skills and experience

Full-time, with flexibility for part-time.

37 hours per week/permanent

Location: Flexible across the region - Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office weekly

Private health care

Double-matched pension

Life assurance at 8 times salary

Shape the engineering standards behind safe, reliable performance

At Anglian Water, the reliability of our Bioresources operations depends on robust engineering standards, effective maintenance strategies and people with the right technical capabilities.

We are looking for an Engineering Standards & Governance Lead to provide engineering leadership across the maintenance standards, assurance and competency arrangements supporting our Bioresources assets.

You will establish a consistent and auditable engineering framework covering CHP, gas, SRP, sludge treatment and associated critical infrastructure. Working alongside engineers, technicians, operational teams and specialist partners, you will ensure our maintenance activities are safe, risk-based, technically robust and aligned with regulatory, process safety and operational requirements.

This is an influential opportunity for an experienced engineering, maintenance or asset-management professional who can combine technical credibility with strong governance, strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement.

What you'll be doing

You will take ownership of the engineering maintenance standards that define how our critical Bioresources assets are maintained, assured and improved.

Using your engineering knowledge and judgement, you will translate technical requirements into practical standards, maintenance procedures and ways of working that can be applied consistently across our operations. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Own and develop engineering maintenance standards for Bioresources assets, including CHP, gas, SRP and sludge treatment.
• Apply engineering judgement and risk-based thinking to ensure standards are practical, technically robust and fit for purpose.
• Ensure maintenance standards meet OEM, statutory, regulatory and process safety requirements.
• Work with engineers, technical specialists and suppliers to embed standards into maintenance plans, procedures and asset-care activities.
• Provide technical governance and assurance, identifying engineering risks, variances and opportunities for improvement.
• Define and maintain engineering competency and authorisation requirements, ensuring work is undertaken by appropriately skilled people.
• Build resilience across specialist engineering skills, critical assets and out-of-hours maintenance capability.
• Help shape future engineering capability through new technology, digital and predictive maintenance, and continuous improvement.
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What you'll bring

• You will bring a strong engineering or maintenance skillset, together with the confidence to influence technical specialists, operational leaders and external partners. We are looking for:
• Engineering, maintenance or asset management experience within an industrial, utilities or process environment.
• Comfortable working across detailed engineering requirements and wider technical governance, ensuring that standards are not only well designed but practical, understood and consistently applied.
• Experience developing or governing engineering maintenance standards, strategies and technical documentation.
• Strong understanding of asset reliability, engineering risk, process safety and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to interpret technical and OEM requirements and translate them into clear, practical engineering standards.
• Experience of technical assurance, competency management and risk-based decision-making.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide technical challenge and drive consistent engineering standards.

Why Anglian Water?

This is an opportunity to shape the engineering foundations of maintenance across our Bioresources operations.

Your work will influence how critical assets are maintained, how engineering risks are controlled and how technical decisions are translated into consistent action. You will help establish clearer engineering standards, stronger technical assurance and greater confidence that specialist maintenance is undertaken by appropriately skilled and authorised people.

If you are motivated by engineering excellence, asset reliability, process safety and the opportunity to create lasting operational improvements, we would like to hear from you.

As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• Double-matched pension (maximum 7% employee/14% employer contribution)
• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave. Opportunity for shared parental pay
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: Tuesday 13th October