Head of Engineering

Anglian Water Services Ltd; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days leave

Flexible working options

Private health care

Pension - double match up to 7%

Life assurance

Annual bonus

Car allowance

Medical assessments

Virtual GP

Cancer screening

Lifestyle discounts

Job summary

Anglian Water Services Ltd appoints a Head of Engineering to steer the MID portfolio and set the engineering direction for major projects. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, shape design governance, and ensure safety, resilience and value across a £2bn+ programme in the UK region.

You will collaborate with executive teams, drive innovative, sustainable solutions, and manage risk while developing capability across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified engineer with professional chartership, or working towards chartership.
• Significant leadership experience within major infrastructure design, engineering delivery or capital programme environments.
• Proven experience leading engineering governance, technical assurance and risk management across complex infrastructure programmes.
• Strong understanding of Design & Build delivery models and engineering assurance within regulated environments.
• Commercial awareness and experience working with major contractors, consultants and delivery partners.
• Strong strategic thinking, organisational leadership and decision-making capability.
• Ability to provide robust technical challenge and assurance across design, construction and commissioning activities.
• A passion for innovation, engineering excellence and developing people and capability.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic engineering leadership across Major Infrastructure Delivery, setting engineering standards, governance and technical direction across major programmes.
• Lead engineering strategy across a circa £2bn capital investment portfolio, ensuring robust design assurance and effective management of engineering risk.
• Champion innovative, sustainable and standardised engineering solutions that optimise whole-life cost, carbon, performance and deliverability.
• Have responsibility for design assurance, ensuring compliance with Anglian Water standards and CDM requirements.
• Lead the resolution of complex engineering and design challenges, removing barriers to delivery and improving programme outcomes.
• Sponsor digital, data-led and modern methods of construction approaches, supporting a #DigitalFirst culture across infrastructure delivery.
• Drive engineering excellence across the supply chain, establishing best practice, capability development and lessons learned frameworks.
• Provide executive leadership for commissioning, temporary works governance and engineering assurance activities across programmes.
• Lead innovation and research initiatives, identifying opportunities that improve long-term resilience, performance and efficiency.
• Strengthen safety in design, process safety governance and engineering compliance across all major projects.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams, ensuring robust succession planning, professional development and future workforce capability.

Skills

Leadership experience

Chartered engineer

Strategic thinking

Design governance

Commercial awareness

Education

Degree in engineering

Professional chartership

Job description

Circa £115,000 (Depending on Skills & Experience)
Permanent
Full Time / 37 Hours (Flexible working opportunities available)
Peterborough & Anglian Water sites, flexibility for hybrid working
Double Matched Pension Scheme (up to 21% combined)
Bonus up to 25% (dependent on personal and company performance)
Private Healthcare
Car Allowance

Lead the engineering vision behind some of the UK's most ambitious water infrastructure programmes.

We're looking for a Head of Engineering to join Anglian Water's Major Infrastructure Delivery (MID) team, providing strategic engineering leadership across a portfolio of circa £2bn of investment. This role will play a critical part in shaping and assuring the engineering solutions that underpin some of the most significant infrastructure programmes in our region, including major treatment, network and growth projects.

As Head of Engineering, you'll lead engineering strategy and design governance across the Major Projects Framework, ensuring solutions are safe, efficient, resilient and aligned to Anglian Water's long-term operational and environmental objectives. Working within a complex Design & Build delivery model, you'll provide executive leadership for design assurance, engineering governance and technical risk management across a diverse portfolio of major projects.

Reporting to the Managing Director of Major Infrastructure Delivery, and with a close functional relationship with the Engineering Director, you'll act as the key engineering interface between programme delivery teams, corporate governance functions and the integrated supply chain. This is a unique opportunity to influence how major infrastructure is designed, delivered and operated for decades to come.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide strategic engineering leadership across Major Infrastructure Delivery, setting engineering standards, governance and technical direction across major programmes.
• Lead engineering strategy across a circa £2bn capital investment portfolio, ensuring robust design assurance and effective management of engineering risk.
• Champion innovative, sustainable and standardised engineering solutions that optimise whole-life cost, carbon, performance and deliverability.
• Have responsibility for design assurance, ensuring compliance with Anglian Water standards and CDM requirements.
• Lead the resolution of complex engineering and design challenges, removing barriers to delivery and improving programme outcomes.
• Sponsor digital, data-led and modern methods of construction approaches, supporting a #DigitalFirst culture across infrastructure delivery.
• Drive engineering excellence across the supply chain, establishing best practice, capability development and lessons learned frameworks.
• Provide executive leadership for commissioning, temporary works governance and engineering assurance activities across programmes.
• Lead innovation and research initiatives, identifying opportunities that improve long-term resilience, performance and efficiency.
• Strengthen safety in design, process safety governance and engineering compliance across all major projects.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams, ensuring robust succession planning, professional development and future workforce capability.

What we're looking for

• Degree-qualified engineer with professional chartership, or working towards chartership.
• Significant leadership experience within major infrastructure design, engineering delivery or capital programme environments.
• Proven experience leading engineering governance, technical assurance and risk management across complex infrastructure programmes.
• Strong understanding of Design & Build delivery models and engineering assurance within regulated environments.
• Commercial awareness and experience working with major contractors, consultants and delivery partners.
• Strong strategic thinking, organisational leadership and decision-making capability.
• Ability to provide robust technical challenge and assurance across design, construction and commissioning activities.
• A passion for innovation, engineering excellence and developing people and capability.

Desirable: Experience within the water sector and a strong understanding of water and water recycling processes, alongside established industry networks and relationships.

Why join Anglian Water?

At Anglian Water, we're delivering a once-in-a-generation programme of infrastructure investment that will support growth, strengthen resilience and protect the environment for future generations. As Head of Engineering, you'll influence the strategic direction of major projects that will shape our region for decades to come.

You’ll work at the forefront of engineering innovation, lead multidisciplinary teams and drive engineering excellence across a £2bn+ portfolio. This is a rare opportunity to provide executive-level leadership within one of the UK's largest infrastructure investment programmes while helping to create sustainable solutions for millions of customers and communities.

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options
• Private health care
• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches contributions up to 7%
• Life assurance at eight times your salary
• Annual bonus
• Potential funded car allowance depending on evidenced business mileage
• Personal medical assessments
• Virtual GP service
• Cancer screening
• Lifestyle savings including discounts on retail, travel and utilities

Inclusion at Anglian Water

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We are proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter and Armed Forces Covenant, and we are a Disability Confident employer.

Closing Date: 20th September 2026

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