Enhanced Maintenance Technician

Anglian Water Services; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Health care

Pension

Bonus scheme

Flexible Benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water's Integrated Maintenance, Repair and Development Services (IMRDS) is seeking an Enhanced Maintenance Technician to support the water network in the Anglian Water region. This hands-on role installs and maintains infrastructure, investigates faults, and promotes remedial work on flowmeters to improve performance.

Permanent, full-time (37 hours/week) with a company vehicle; driving licence essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and customer facing skills.
• Electrical engineering skills with NVQ2 or equivalent.
• BTEC certificate (or equivalent) in an electrical subject.
• C&G Parts 1 and/or 2 in electrical engineering, J557 mechanical to electrical conversion validated certificate.
• Mechanical to electrical conversion.
• Ability to work alone.
• Able to undertake logical problem solving and data interpretation.
• Ideally, an understanding and knowledge of water operational activities (valve operations, data logging, metering processes and hydraulics).
• If successful in your application, you will benefit from access to a company vehicle, so a full driving licence is essential.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineering role for installation and maintenance.
• Carry out planned and reactive work, investigate faults.
• Promote remedial work on flowmeters to improve assets.
• Work with Water Services team across Anglian Water region.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Communication

Problem solving

Data interpretation

Education

NVQ2 in electrical engineering

BTEC certificate in electrical subject

C&G Parts 1 and/or 2 in electrical engineering

J557 mechanical to electrical conversion

Job description

Salary: Circa £42,000 + Business use of company Van

Location: Working within the Anglian Water region

Contract: Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week

At Anglian Water, our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.

Who We Are

Integrated Maintenance, Repair and Development Services (IMRDS) is the team that maintains our water supply systems, handles emergencies like water bursts, and develops new ways to better serve our customers. We offer various roles, from frontline operational work to project management and data analysis.

IMRDS is part of the Embedded Alliance within Anglian Water, working alongside other organisations for skill-sharing and using the best people for the job. If you want to join a rapidly expanding team with growth and networking opportunities, we want to hear from you!

Explore a new career with us!

Are you someone who is passionate about electrical and mechanical engineering and takes pride in a safety first and efficient approach to your work and environment?

You’ll work to contribute to the maintenance of our calm and stable water network. In this rewarding role, you’ll help us achieve our company goals in reducing leakage, interruptions to supply, costs and continuing to improve our service to our customers.

This is a hands‑on engineering role, you’ll undertake infrastructure installation and maintenance work, carrying out planned and reactive work, investigating faults and promoting remedial work on a variety of our flowmeters. All with the aim to improve the performance and efficiency of assets and activities within the treated water network across the region.

In this vital role, you’ll join the devoted Water Services team, working alongside wider Anglian Water and Contractor teams.

Help us in our mission in making our drinking water among the best on the planet?

What does it take to be an Enhanced Maintenance Technician?

• Excellent communication and customer facing skills

• Must have electrical engineering skills with technical background to NVQ2 or equivalent complemented with:

• BTEC certificate (or equivalent) in an electrical subject

• C&G parts 1 and/or 2 in electrical engineering, J557 mechanical to electrical conversion validated certificate

• Mechanical to electrical conversion

• Ability to work alone

• Able to undertake logical problem solving and data interpretation

• Ideally, an understanding and knowledge of water operational activities i.e., valve operations, data logging, metering processes and hydraulics

• If successful in your application, you will benefit from access to a company vehicle, so a full driving licence is essential. If you are offered the role, the status of your driving licence will be checked.

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

• Personal private health care
• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service
• Flexible working
• Access to a company vehicle, tools and all uniform and PPE
• Pension - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Why Anglian Water?

We borrow water from the environment, store and treat it to world-class standards so it’s safe to drink and then supply it to 4.3 million of you in towns and villages from Grimsby in the north east of our region to Milton Keynes in the south-west.

Our drinking water is among the best on the planet. In the last five years we’ve invested £100 million in drinking water quality, hitting some of the most stringent targets in the world. We focus on quality across our operations and are the only company in our industry to achieve ISO standards for excellence in quality, environment and health and safety.

Closing date: 19th August 2026