Lead, Engineering Standards & Governance (Hybrid)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Double-matched pension

Life assurance (8x salary)

Personal accident cover

26 days annual leave

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water Group Ltd. is seeking an Engineering Standards & Governance Lead to define and govern maintenance standards for Bioresources assets, including CHP, gas, SRP and sludge treatment.

You will translate complex technical requirements into practical standards, collaborating with engineers, suppliers and operations to ensure risk-based, compliant and auditable practices across maintenance activities.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Engineering experience

Maintenance governance

Technical communication

Stakeholder engagement

Risk assessment

Job description

Anglian Water Group Ltd. is seeking an Engineering Standards & Governance Lead to define and govern maintenance standards for Bioresources assets, including CHP, gas, SRP and sludge treatment.

You will translate complex technical requirements into practical standards, collaborating with engineers, suppliers and operations to ensure risk-based, compliant and auditable practices across maintenance activities.