Project Engineer

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Tattershall Thorpe; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in water services seeks a Project Engineer to manage water projects in the East Anglia area. You will play a vital role in delivering solutions, ensuring compliance with standards, and managing stakeholders effectively. This dynamic position offers the opportunity to drive value and develop your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Up to 26 days annual leave

Flexible benefits to support wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience in capital delivery within the water sector.
• Management of Construction Design Management Regulations.
• Excellent knowledge in stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Drive development of solutions for project needs.
• Assess solutions and perform root cause analysis.
• Ensure compliance with design, safety standards, and legal requirements.

Skills

Customer management

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

time left to apply End Date: July 8, 2025 (10 days left to apply)

job requisition id R32216

Location: Within the East Anglia area to include: Lincoln, Peterborough, Huntingdon,

Northampton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk and Colchester.

Contract: Permanent

Salary: circa £45,876 (depending on experience and skills) + car allowance

At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.

Who are we?

Here within Anglian Water, we collaborate with a number of alliance partners to provide the best water and water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard future water supplies and improving the environment.

Playing a key part in our drive to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop is our Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Alliance. Comprising of Anglian Water, MGroup, Barhale and Kier, the IOS Alliance work together to concentrate on solutions across the water recycling and clean water asset base.

The IOS alliance works across multiple disciplines including Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation. Incorporating new construction, replacement or repair. Spanning the entirety of Anglian Waters asset base.

To ensure water projects in the East Anglia area are managed successfully from inception to completion, ensuring all required standards, regulations, commercial affordability targets and time frames are met, we are looking for a Project Engineer to join the team.

What you will be doing as our Project Engineer?

Receiving planned and reactive project needs from Anglian Water, you’ll look to drive the development of solutions with a focus on the whole life cost and business risk reduction of the solution whilst ensuring they are compliant with all required standards and regulations.

This is a fast-paced and dynamic role but one where you can add value across the business and to your career aspirations.

Responsibilities:

Support the Operational/ Remove the operational term as these will not be in IOS moving forward all will be PDMs Project Delivery Manager in the delivery of Anglian Water project needs

Assess solutions, complete root cause analysis with consideration to whole life cost and business risk reduction using the Risk, Opportunity, and Value process.

Develop solutions in line with corporate governance processes, technical/safety standards, and legal requirements.

Ensure all enabling; including the design, programme, cost and CDM requirements are completed ready for construction handover.

Complete and comply with all operational site Health & Safety, Environmental, Quality requirements to ensure safe working practices.

Support the capture of assets and cost in the relevant corporate systems.

Preferable APM Project Management (PMQ) or PRINCE2

Preferable NEBOSH or NEBOSH Construction

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Engineering degree or equivalent

Experience in capital delivery within the water sector with a key focus on directly employed staff delivering projects

Management of the Construction Design Management Regulations

Excellent knowledge and experience in customer management as well as our external stakeholders

Be an excellent communicator at all levels to be able to interpret, problem solve and share data at all levels

Commercial awareness working with multiple stakeholders

Why Anglian Water?
At Anglian Water, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure their hard work is recognised and rewarded. Some of our benefits include:

Up to 26 days annual leave, increasing with length of service

Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

How to apply:

If you think you have the skills, attributes and ability to join our team as the Project Engineer then please apply today!

Closing Date: 7th July 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] ’

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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.