Production Enablement Manager

Anglian Water Services Ltd; Bedford, Northampton, Peterborough, Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Generous pension

26 days annual leave

Life assurance

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water Group is seeking a Production Enablement Manager to bridge production strategy and operational delivery across locations in Rutland, Bedford, Northampton, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Milton Keynes and Corby. The role leads a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and specialists to enable proactive, production-led delivery while building resilience.

You will translate maintenance priorities and asset health requirements into actionable work, oversee major capital programmes and

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent operational experience.
• Proven experience in water supply operations or comparable environment.
• Strong understanding of production, storage and distribution systems.
• Experience leading technical teams and subject matter experts.
• Experience delivering operational improvements and major programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management, planning and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Production Enablement function, translating priorities into deliverable operational activity.
• Coordinate maintenance, asset health and production requirements to protect capability and resilience.
• Drive alignment between maintenance planning and production needs.
• Identify and remove barriers and resource constraints.
• Lead and develop a team of technical experts.
• Oversee major capital programmes with risk, cost and timescale management.
• Establish governance and performance measures for resilient operations.
• Support Production Transformation Programme and future operating model.
• Champion innovation to improve performance and resilience.

Skills

Team leadership

Production management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Continuous improvement

Education

Degree-level qualification

Job description

Salary: £63,500 - £70,000, dependent on skills and experience + car allowance

Permanent, Full-time, 37 Hours

Base Location flexible with travel across Rutland, Bedford, Northampton, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Milton Keynes and Corby.

Make every drop of your career count. Join our team and start making a real difference where it matters! 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 northeast of our region to Milton Keynes at the south-western tip.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Production Enablement Manager to join our Ruthamford Production Leadership Team. You will provide the critical link between production strategy and operational delivery, ensuring maintenance priorities, asset health requirements, technical support and resource capability are aligned to improve production performance and resilience. Leading a multi-disciplinary team of technical specialists, engineers and support professionals, you'll create the conditions that allow operational teams to succeed whilst driving the transition to a more proactive, integrated and production-led operating model.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Production Enablement function, ensuring production priorities are translated into deliverable operational activity.
• Coordinate operational, maintenance and technical activity to protect production capability and system resilience.
• Drive alignment between maintenance planning, asset health priorities and production requirements.
• Identify and resolve barriers, dependencies and resource constraints affecting delivery.
• Lead and develop a team of technical experts, creating a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee major capital programmes, ensuring risk, cost, timescales and operational impacts are effectively managed.
• Establish governance, performance measures and escalation processes to support resilient operations.
• Support the delivery of the Production Transformation Programme and future operating model.
• Champion innovation and best practice to improve operational performance and production resilience.

What does it take to be a Production Enablement Manager?

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent operational experience.
• Proven experience within water supply operations or a comparable operational environment.
• Strong understanding of production, storage and distribution systems.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams and subject matter experts.
• Demonstrable experience delivering operational improvements and major programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management, planning and influencing skills.
• Experience using operational data to drive decision-making and performance improvements.
• Project and programme management capability with a continuous improvement mindset.

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we're proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

Benefits

• Personal private health care.
• Generous double match pension - contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%.
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household.
• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service and the ability to buy more.
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary).
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary).
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave.
• Opportunity for shared parental pay.
• Bonus scheme.
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We're proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter, and Armed Forces Covenant, and we're a Disability Confident employer.

We may offer part time/flexible working depending on the role requirements, this can be discussed openly at interview.

Closing Date: 17/11/2026 #loveeverydrop! #LI-SA

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