Water Recycling Regional Network Support Manager

Anglian Water Services; Essex; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Generous pension

Annual leave 26 days

Life assurance

Accident cover

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Water Recycling Regional Network Support Manager to lead across Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, ensuring safe, sustainable operation of sewerage assets and pumping stations.

You will mentor managers, influence decisions, and drive performance with a focus on safety, environmental excellence, and customer service. The role requires regional travel and a full UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Water industry experience is essential.
• Experience managing operational incidents in high-pressure settings.
• Proven leadership in an operational environment.
• Ability to adapt communication for diverse internal/external stakeholders.
• Awareness and application of Health & Safety rules/regulations.
• Experience making commercial decisions with competing priorities.
• SAP financial competence.
• Ability to think tactically and strategically for outcomes.
• Valid UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership support to the Regional Network Manager across Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
• Deliver technical expertise to ensure safe and efficient sewerage network operations.
• Coach and mentor Network Managers to develop teams and safe practices.
• Support incident management, risk planning and investment decisions.
• Foster strong stakeholder relationships and drive operational excellence across the region.

Skills

Operational experience

Incident management

Leadership in operations

Stakeholder communication

Health & Safety awareness

Commercial decision making

SAP financial competence

Strategic thinking

Full UK Driving Licence

Tools

SAP

Job description

Water Recycling Regional Network Support Manager

Circa £69,000 – depending on skills and experience + car allowance
Permanent
Full time, 37 hours per week
Regional – based within the East region of the Anglian Water area, covering Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Flexibility to travel across the region is essential.

For a greater career just add water!

Water Recycling is at the heart of our operations. The key services that we are responsible for are delivered by our in-house, highly skilled workforce. We collect and treat the water that customers have used, returning it to the environment via rivers and coastal outlets. Our network includes 76,000 kilometres of sewers which feed over 1,000 water recycling centres.

Would you like to be part of a team responsible for the safe and sustainable operation and maintenance of our water recycling assets?

What will you be doing?

We are recruiting for a Regional Network Support Manager who will provide leadership support to both Regional Network Manager, covering sites across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex in ensuring the safe and effective operation of the sewerage network, associated pumping stations and overflows across our region.

This is a highly visible role that requires flexibility to work across multiple locations and operational areas, providing technical expertise and support to both Regional Network Managers and wider teams. You’ll be a trusted partner to operational teams, building strong stakeholder relationships across the business, influencing decision-making and helping to drive consistent performance and operational excellence across the region.

You will play an integral role in promoting a high-performance culture where the delivery of excellent customer service and environmental prosperity is central to everything we do. Using your strong technical knowledge and collaborative leadership style, you will support managers in overcoming operational challenges, developing their teams and delivering sustainable business outcomes.

You will be responsible for coaching and mentoring our Network Managers, increasing focus on employee and customer health and safety, and providing tactical support for managing operational incidents, impact planning, operational decision making and investment planning.

You will spend time with our managers and their teams to ensure they have the tools, equipment and training required to effectively manage our assets in line with our regulators’ guidelines. This active management will have a focus on achieving environmental excellence, building resilience, and utilising performance reporting to ensure we are operating as efficiently and effectively as possible whilst maintaining the wellbeing of our teams.

What does it take to be a Regional Network Support Manager?

• Relevant operational experience within the Water Industry
• Experience of managing operational incidents in a high-pressure environment
• Demonstrable leadership experience within an operational setting
• Ability to adapt communication style (both written and verbal) to suit a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Awareness of and application of Health & Safety rules and regulations within an operational environment
• Experience in making commercial decisions often with conflicting priorities
• SAP financial competence
• Ability to think tactically but also strategically to achieve business outcomes
• Full UK Driving Licence

**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 scheme
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeingand lifestyle.

Why Anglian Water?

Here at Anglian Water, we are striving to do the right thing for our people, customers and our environment. Our culture involves collaborative, innovative and inspiring work, putting people at the heart of our business, and we truly love what we do. We believe that equal opportunities mean inclusion, diversity and fair treatment for all.

If you’re a collaborative and inspirational operational leader who enjoys coaching others, building strong relationships and using technical expertise to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Closing date: Friday 30th October 2026

Interviews: Week commencing 16th November 2026

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