Water Recycling Project Engineer

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Tattershall Thorpe; Hybrid; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water company in the UK seeks a Water Recycling Project Engineer to handle project delivery in water recycling operations. The ideal candidate will possess a relevant engineering qualification and substantial technical experience, including knowledge of health and safety regulations. This role offers a full-time contract with competitive salary and benefits, including a car allowance, private healthcare, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Car allowance

Full private health care

26 days annual leave

Flexible working

Competitive pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Appropriate engineering qualification or alternative experience.
• Proven technical experience in the relevant environment.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety and CDM regulations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned and reactive project needs for Water Recycling Operations.
• Conduct root cause analysis and develop solutions.
• Ensure compliance with safety and operational standards.

Skills

Engineering qualification or equivalent experience

Proven technical experience

Knowledge of Health & Safety regulations

Understanding of process safety

Project planning and delivery

Excellent communication skills

Commercial awareness

Education

Relevant engineering qualification

Tools

O365

M2i

SAP

Power BI

Job description

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Water Recycling Project Engineer

Apply locations Lincoln Rutland Buckinghamshire Essex Norfolk time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: August 15, 2025 (12 days left to apply) job requisition id R32026

Water Recycling Project Engineer
Salary: Circa £47,553 (depending on experience and skills) + car allowance
Location: Lincoln, Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, Essex, Norfolk, Rutland & North Cambridgeshire, Suffolk
Contract: Permanent

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

Who are we?

Anglian Water is committed to providing the best water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard our future water supplies.

We are looking for Project Engineers to join our Water Recycling Operations delivery teams, to ensure our capital maintenance projects are delivered successfully from inception to completion, ensuring all required standards, regulations, commercial affordability targets and time frames are met.

What you will be doing as our Project Engineer?

The Project Engineer will deliver planned and reactive project needs for Water Recycling Operations, 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:

• Deliver planned and reactive project needs for Water Recycling Operations
• 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.

Key Experiences/Skills & qualifications:

• Appropriate engineering qualification or membership of professional body or equivalent experience
• Proven technical experience within the relevant environment
• Knowledge of Health & Safety (H&S), and Construction Design & Management (CDM) regulations
• Good understanding of process safety
• Experience managing a capital budget
• Experience of project planning, delivery and site supervision
• Root cause analysis to optionee suitable solutions
• Good IT literacy – O365
• Experience of Anglian Water IT systems particularly M2i, SAP and Power Bi

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

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

• Car allowance
• Full Personal private health care
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
• Flexible working
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

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.

Closing Date: 15th August 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.