Production Planning Engineer

Anglian Water Services; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility company in the UK is seeking a Production Planning Engineer to join their team. This role involves developing and implementing production plans to ensure optimal water supply management. Candidates should have experience in operational roles, strong decision-making abilities, and familiarity with complex software tools like IRIS. The company values diversity and inclusion and offers flexible working arrangements along with competitive benefits, including private health care and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Personal private health care

Virtual GP service

Double-matched pension

Generous annual leave

Mental health support

Life Assurance

Yearly bonus scheme

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in an operational role with a focus on decision making.
• Strong knowledge of water treatment and distribution processes.
• Ability to work as part of a team and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate and implementable production plans.
• Support production planning management and decision making.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders to manage and implement plans.

Skills

Operational Decision Making

Stakeholder Management

Negotiation

Communication

Tools

IRIS

Job description

Circa £45,000, depending on skills and experience Flexible throughout the Anglian Water region – Hybrid remote

Lincoln, Peterborough, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Ipswich or Colchester.

Personal private health care

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Double-matched pension

Generous annual leave allowance

Are you looking for the opportunity to help drive change throughout the Anglian Water region?

Are you looking to utilise your operational experience and strong influencing skills to drive data led decisions? If so, we may have the role for you.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Production Planning team as a Production Planning Engineer. Production Planning at its simplest is the activities that get the right quality and quantity of water where it needs to be, when it needs to be there by developing short, medium and long-term coordinated regionalplans that respond to changing conditions. The Production Planning team is required to work closely with a wide variety of business units including Water Supply operational teams, Tactical Operations, Networks and Water Resources to ensure the Production Plans are accurate and attainable.

What will you be doing?

The Production Planning Engineer will be responsible for producing accurate and implementable production plans that provide daily production targets over weekly and monthly timespans. Supporting the Production Planning Manager, you will be responsible for using an array of tools and software, as well as some manual intervention, to ensure plans are produced which assist key decision making across the team. By maintaining a close working relationship with key stakeholders, you will communicate required actions to implement the plan and manage any changes that may be required.

We are looking for someone with previous experience in an operational role, with a focus on operational decision making. The role requires an individual with strong knowledge of system operation, as well as experience of operational teams, to ensure the plans produced have the desired results. You will be an active and specialist user of production planning software and tools and will be expected to develop your own capabilities, as well as the team around you, to utilise these tools. In addition, as a primary user of the production planning software, you will be well placed to drive the transition towards a new operating model within water supply utilising proactive decision making and supporting maintenance delivery schemes.

What does it take to be a Production Planning Engineer?

• Previous experience in an operational roleand confident making operational decisions
• Good understanding of Water treatment and distribution processes (previous hydraulic or mass balance experience is preferred but not essential)
• Experience using complex computer software modelssuch as IRIS

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills
• Confident working across multiple business units

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

• Personal private health care
• Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
• Flexible working
• An assistance line for you and your household to support with Mental and Physical health challenges
• Life Assurance (8x salary) and Personal Accident cover (up to 5x salary)
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay
• Yearly bonus scheme
• Pension scheme – we double-match your contributions, up to 6%

Why Anglian Water?

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. We have an active Inclusion Community which is a place for anyone interested in diversity and inclusion to connect. We encourage all our employees to get involved in our Inclusion Community, which celebrates our different backgrounds and experiences. The more our workplace reflects our customers, the better service we can provide for them.

Closing date: 17/07/25