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Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Salary £55k - £65k, salary depending on skills and experience
Permanent
Full-time, with flexibility for part-time
Home working and an Anglian Water office - Peterborough, Huntingdon, Lincoln, Colchester, Norwich or Northampton (depending on your location)
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location can be in one of our offices/sites across the region – depending on your location.
Ready to take on a role where your expertise will shape the future of water recycling?
Join us as a Principal Modeller in our cutting-edge Asset Intelligence Modelling Team – the driving force behind our Water Recycling network’s hydraulic modelling capability. Reporting to the Modelling Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of solving some of the most complex and critical challenges facing our water systems today.
In this pivotal role, you'll lead deep-dive investigations into intricate flow, hydraulic, water quality, and asset health issues—uncovering root causes and driving innovative solutions. You'll spearhead hydraulic model upgrades to enhance confidence in our insights, and play a key role in developing conceptual schemes that pave the way for strategic investment.
As our modelling capability expands, so will your impact. This role offers the opportunity to grow into leading a small team of expert modellers, developing talent and building resilience across our function.
Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, you’ll fuse the power of data and hydraulic modelling with the knowledge of our operational and environmental experts—putting the customer and environment at the heart of everything we do. Together, we’ll get to the bottom of it.
If you're passionate about driving value, enhancing efficiency, and using your technical skills to make a real difference, this is the role for you.
What will you be doing?
What does it take to be a Principal Modeller?
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
Why Anglian Water?
This is a unique opportunity to play a leading role in shaping the future of water recycling. As a Principal Modeller, you’ll work at the cutting edge of hydraulic modelling, tackling some of the most complex and high-impact challenges in the industry. You'll be empowered to influence key decisions, drive innovation, and develop solutions that directly benefit customers, communities, and the environment.
You’ll join a collaborative and supportive team where your expertise will be recognised and valued. As the role evolves, you’ll have the opportunity to grow into a leadership position, develop others, and help build a resilient, forward-thinking modelling function.
We’re committed to your development, offering ongoing technical training, CPD, and opportunities to shape best practice across the business. If you’re looking for a role that combines technical depth, strategic influence, and real-world impact—this is it.
Closing date: 22nd November 2026
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