Strategic Engineering Leader — Major Infrastructure Delivery

Anglian Water Services Ltd; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days leave

Flexible working options

Private health care

Pension - double match up to 7%

Life assurance

Annual bonus

Car allowance

Medical assessments

Virtual GP

Cancer screening

Lifestyle discounts

Job summary

Anglian Water Services Ltd appoints a Head of Engineering to steer the MID portfolio and set the engineering direction for major projects. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, shape design governance, and ensure safety, resilience and value across a £2bn+ programme in the UK region.

You will collaborate with executive teams, drive innovative, sustainable solutions, and manage risk while developing capability across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified engineer with professional chartership, or working towards chartership.
• Significant leadership experience within major infrastructure design, engineering delivery or capital programme environments.
• Proven experience leading engineering governance, technical assurance and risk management across complex infrastructure programmes.
• Strong understanding of Design & Build delivery models and engineering assurance within regulated environments.
• Commercial awareness and experience working with major contractors, consultants and delivery partners.
• Strong strategic thinking, organisational leadership and decision-making capability.
• Ability to provide robust technical challenge and assurance across design, construction and commissioning activities.
• A passion for innovation, engineering excellence and developing people and capability.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic engineering leadership across Major Infrastructure Delivery, setting engineering standards, governance and technical direction across major programmes.
• Lead engineering strategy across a circa £2bn capital investment portfolio, ensuring robust design assurance and effective management of engineering risk.
• Champion innovative, sustainable and standardised engineering solutions that optimise whole-life cost, carbon, performance and deliverability.
• Have responsibility for design assurance, ensuring compliance with Anglian Water standards and CDM requirements.
• Lead the resolution of complex engineering and design challenges, removing barriers to delivery and improving programme outcomes.
• Sponsor digital, data-led and modern methods of construction approaches, supporting a #DigitalFirst culture across infrastructure delivery.
• Drive engineering excellence across the supply chain, establishing best practice, capability development and lessons learned frameworks.
• Provide executive leadership for commissioning, temporary works governance and engineering assurance activities across programmes.
• Lead innovation and research initiatives, identifying opportunities that improve long-term resilience, performance and efficiency.
• Strengthen safety in design, process safety governance and engineering compliance across all major projects.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams, ensuring robust succession planning, professional development and future workforce capability.

Skills

Leadership experience

Chartered engineer

Strategic thinking

Design governance

Commercial awareness

Education

Degree in engineering

Professional chartership

Job description

Anglian Water Services Ltd appoints a Head of Engineering to steer the MID portfolio and set the engineering direction for major projects. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, shape design governance, and ensure safety, resilience and value across a £2bn+ programme in the UK region.

You will collaborate with executive teams, drive innovative, sustainable solutions, and manage risk while developing capability across the organisation.