Do you have a passion for water quality, scientific excellence, and leading high-performing teams? We're looking for a Water Process Science Manager to lead a team of scientific professionals dedicated to delivering the highest standards of drinking water quality across our region. This is a rewarding opportunity to combine scientific expertise, people leadership, risk management, and operational support to ensure customers receive safe, wholesome water every day. You'll play a critical role in protecting water quality from source to tap, driving continuous improvement, supporting capital investment programmes, and influencing business-wide decision making.
Key responsibilities
- Leading and developing a high-performing, inclusive scientific team that shares knowledge, expertise and best practice
- Ensuring the optimum quality of drinking water is produced across our water treatment works through proactive scientific oversight and intervention
- Driving a "source to supply" approach to water quality management, using site-based investigations and data-led analysis to identify trends, opportunities and risks
- Providing expert scientific support to operational teams, senior stakeholders and capital delivery programmes
- Owning and leading the Drinking Water Safety Planning (DWSP) process and associated Risk Portal
- Managing risk assessments, ensuring effective mitigation plans are implemented and maintained
- Leading the Water Quality Action Plan process, ensuring risks are identified, recorded, monitored and effectively controlled
- Supporting business resilience through proactive risk management and rapid response to emerging water quality issues
- Managing team resources, budgets and workload allocation to ensure delivery of business priorities and value for money
Educated to a degree level in a relevant scientific subject or equivalent qualification - Experience of water process or asset science
- Evidence of team leadership and management
- Able to critically evaluate information to take tactical or strategic action
- Interpersonal skills to build rapport with operational colleagues, whilst being able to communicate actions required effectively
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Full UK driving license and willingness to work across operational sites
Participating in a regional out-of-hours standby rota to support operational incidents and business continuity
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
- A car allowance
- 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.