Maintenance Standards & Governance Lead

Anglian Water Services; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Pension scheme

Life assurance (8x salary)

Job summary

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Standards and Resource Governance Lead to establish and maintain a consistent approach to maintenance across our Bioresources activities. You will lead governance of maintenance standards, competency and resource management, ensuring safety and regulatory alignment.

The role blends engineering or maintenance knowledge with governance, stakeholder engagement and strategic thinking to drive safety, risk-based decisions and operational resilience across multiple

Qualifications

• Experience of developing or governing maintenance standards, procedures or technical documentation.
• Understanding of competency management, skills matrices, training records and authorisation processes.
• Knowledge of health and safety, regulatory compliance and process safety expectations.
• Ability to assess operational risk and make balanced, evidence-led decisions.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into clear, practical standards and guidance.
• Logical and systematic with excellent attention to detail.
• Comfort using digital systems, data and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Developing, reviewing and governing maintenance standards, procedures and technical documentation.
• Identifying gaps and creating practical, risk-based and value-driven standards.
• Ensuring standards align with regulatory, health and safety, process safety and operational requirements.
• Providing assurance against OEM standards, approved procedures, statutory requirements and industry good practice.
• Creating reporting that gives visibility of compliance, competency and critical maintenance activity.
• Working with responsible teams to address variances and implement corrective actions.
• Maintaining competency frameworks, skills matrices, training records and authorisation requirements.
• Defining technical and competency requirements for standby, emergency and out-of-hours maintenance.

Skills

Maintenance standards governance

Competency management

Health & safety

Risk assessment

Stakeholder management

Technical governance

Clear communication

Job description

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Standards and Resource Governance Lead to establish and maintain a consistent approach to maintenance across our Bioresources activities. You will lead governance of maintenance standards, competency and resource management, ensuring safety and regulatory alignment.

The role blends engineering or maintenance knowledge with governance, stakeholder engagement and strategic thinking to drive safety, risk-based decisions and operational resilience across multiple