Head of Engineering

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Car Allowance

Annual bonus

Pension with doubling matches

Job summary

Anglian Water Group Ltd. is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead strategic engineering across a £2bn Major Infrastructure Delivery portfolio, delivering safe, efficient and resilient solutions.

You will shape design governance, manage risk, and provide executive leadership across complex programmes within a Design & Build delivery model. Reporting to the MD of MID, you will build high-performing teams, champion innovation, and drive whole-life cost optimisation while ensuring regulatory and CDM

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified engineer with professional chartership, or working towards chartership.
• Significant leadership experience within major infrastructure design, engineering delivery or capital programmes.
• Proven experience leading engineering governance, technical assurance and risk management across complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic engineering leadership across Major Infrastructure Delivery, setting standards and governance.
• Lead engineering strategy for a £2bn capital portfolio, ensuring design assurance and risk management.
• Champion innovative, sustainable and standardised engineering solutions to optimise whole-life cost and performance.
• Ensure design assurance and CDM compliance across programmes.
• Lead resolution of complex engineering challenges to improve outcomes.
• Sponsor digital and modern methods of construction approaches and a #DigitalFirst culture.
• Drive engineering excellence across the supply chain and develop capabilities.
• Provide executive leadership for commissioning and engineering assurance activities.
• Lead innovation and research initiatives to improve resilience and efficiency.
• Strengthen safety in design and process safety governance across major projects.
• Build high-performing teams with succession planning and development.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Engineering governance

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Education

Chartered engineer

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 a 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. We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

Closing Date: 20th September 2026 #loveeverydrop #LI-ZP1

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.