Storage Point Operations Lead

Anglian Water Services; Northampton; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal private health care

Pension scheme with generous employer/

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Storage Point Operations Lead to coordinate outages, plans and delivery across Ruthamford storage points. You will act as the operational link between planning, operations, and asset teams to ensure inspections, cleaning and refurbishment programmes are delivered on time.

The role requires coordinating complex activities, managing risks, and leading multi-team collaboration, with a focus on safety and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• HNC/HND qualification or equivalent operational experience.
• Experience in water supply operations or a comparable environment.
• Strong understanding of water supply systems, storage and distribution.
• Experience coordinating complex operational activities across multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to assess operational risks and outages impacts.
• Strong planning, organisation and stakeholder management capability.
• Experience using operational data to support decision-making.
• Collaborative and proactive communication style.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate removal from service and return to service of storage point assets across Ruthamford.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans aligned to priorities.
• Lead the development and management of Major Impact Plans (MIPs).
• Assess operational, production and resilience impacts of planned outages.
• Coordinate activities across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Coordinate readiness activities and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor programme performance and regulatory commitments.
• Capture lessons learned and drive process improvements.
• Ensure activities are delivered safely and in accordance with requirements.

Skills

Planning

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Risk assessment

Data-driven decisions

Education

HNC/HND qualification

Job description

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000, 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 Storage Point Operations Lead to support the delivery of the Ruthamford Storage Point Programme.

You will act as the operational link between Production Planning, Operations, Water Quality, Modelling, Asset Management and Programme Delivery teams, coordinating activity to ensure vital storage point inspections, cleaning and refurbishment programmes are delivered successfully.

This is a highly visible role where you'll lead outage planning, operational risk management and programme coordination, ensuring resilience is maintained while major works are undertaken.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate the removal from service and return to service of storage point assets across Ruthamford.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans aligned to operational and programme priorities.
• Lead the development and management of Major Impact Plans (MIPs).
• Assess operational, production and resilience impacts associated with planned outages.
• Work across multiple teams to identify risks, constraints and mitigation measures.
• Coordinate operational readiness activities and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor programme performance and regulatory commitments.
• Capture lessons learned and identify opportunities to improve delivery processes.
• Ensure activities are delivered safely and in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.

What does it take to be a Storage Point Operations Lead?

• HNC/HND qualification or equivalent operational experience.
• Experience within water supply operations or a comparable operational environment.
• Strong understanding of water supply systems, production, storage and distribution.
• Experience coordinating complex operational activities across multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to assess operational risks and impacts associated with outages and system change.
• Strong planning, organisation and stakeholder management capability.
• Experience using operational data to support decision-making.
• A collaborative and proactive approach with strong communication skills.

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!

We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• 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 ofservice 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 schemeFlexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeingand lifestyle.

If you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.

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

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