Policy & Strategy Scientist

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Policy & Strategy Scientist to enhance drinking water quality management. This full-time role offers exciting responsibilities, including overseeing compliance with water quality regulations and developing effective strategies in a flexible working environment with a strong commitment to employee development.

Benefits

Personal private health care

26 days annual leave

Flexible working

Competitive pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Ideally educated to degree level in a relevant scientific subject.
• Experience in water quality and public health issues.
• Full UK driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and oversee an effective operational scientific strategy for drinking water quality.
• Ensure compliance with drinking water quality regulatory instruments.
• Provide water quality training and out of hours standby cover.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Water process science

Education

Degree in a relevant scientific subject

Job description

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Policy & Strategy Scientist

Apply locations Huntingdon Bedford Office Grantham Milton Keynes Northampton time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: July 28, 2025 (12 days left to apply) job requisition id R31616

Salary – Circa £40,000 per annum, salary dependant on skills and experience

Home based & office/site based, Northampton/Bedford/Huntingdon/Milton Keynes/Peterborough/Grantham/Lincoln/Norwich

Permanent full time role, 37 Hours a week

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role offers you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location could be at an operational site or office within the West of our region including (depending on your location); Northampton, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Grantham or Lincoln.

Our services are at the heart of every single family and community in our region. Our Water Services team clean water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out. We borrow water from the environment, store it and treat it to world-class standards to supply safe drinking water to 4.3 million customers in towns and villages from Grimsby in the north east of our region to Milton Keynes at the south-western tip.

You will be working closely with the wider business, you’ll be responsible for delivery of an effective and efficient operational scientific strategy for drinking water quality , and ongoing implementation and development of our Drinking Water Safety Planning approach. As part of this you will own the long-term operational strategies for dealing with any deteriorating water quality performance trends . ,. You will also monitor delivery of our drinking water quality legal instruments ensuring that all regulatory expectations and deadlines are met. Additionally, to this you will ensure that all new regulatory requirements and expectations are embedded as required .

Your other responsibilities will also include:

• Ensure that water quality p rogress r eports and milestone requirements are drafted, signed off and are submitted to the D rinking W ater I nspectorate by the required deadlines .

• Ensure that the wider business understands their responsibilities for delivery of key milestones requirements and th at all regulatory deadlines are understood .

• Ensure that long-term control measures are identified , are clearly evidenced , and are promoted for inclusion in the Drinking Water Quality programme or Capital Maintenance programme .

• Be recognised as a scientific strategy technical expert within the business

• Provide water quality training .

• Provide out of hours local scientific standby cover, being able to provide scientific advice on any asset or area of the company.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care

• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service

• Flexible working

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

What does it take to be a Policy and Strategy Scientist?

• Ideally you will be educated to degree level in a relevant scientific subject and be a member of an appropriate professional body

• Experience of water process science, water quality customer service and public health issues with demonstrable expertise in water treatment and distribution

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Full UK driving licence

Why Anglian Water?

We are passionate and committed 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 also take Health and Safety very seriously in everything that we do. There will be some travel involved to our different office locations around the area we serve.

Closing date: 27/07/2025

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About Us

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. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [e-mail] ’

To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.

If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in ourPrivacy Notice .

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.