Head of Engineering – Hybrid Major Infrastructure Delivery

Anglian Water Services; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 978,000 - 979,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Car allowance

Double-matched pension (up to 21%)

Bonus up to 25%

33 days? No

31?

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the MID team's strategic engineering direction across a £2bn investment portfolio. You will shape design governance, ensure safety in design and drive value through innovative, sustainable solutions.

Based in Peterborough with hybrid working options, this role offers executive leadership across complex programmes and a path to shaping water infrastructure for years to come.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified engineer with professional chartership, or working towards chartership.

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

Governance

Risk management

Design & Build

Commercial awareness

Strategic thinking

People development

Innovation

Safety in design

Partner management

Education

Chartered engineer

Job description

Anglian Water is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the MID team's strategic engineering direction across a £2bn investment portfolio. You will shape design governance, ensure safety in design and drive value through innovative, sustainable solutions.

Based in Peterborough with hybrid working options, this role offers executive leadership across complex programmes and a path to shaping water infrastructure for years to come.