Project Engineer - Water Supply (Maintenance)

Salary Circa £47k-£52k depending on skills and experience + Car Allowance

Permanent, Full time, 37 hours with flexibility for part time
Location: Isleham/Newmarket and surrounding area – Travel across the Anglian Water region may be required

Hybrid working - Expectation is 2/3 days a week on site, 2/3 from home

Private health care

Double-matched pension (21% total)

Virtual GP service

Life assurance at 8 times salary

Join Anglian Water as a Project Engineer – Maintenance Delivery!

Are you an experienced engineer looking to make a significant impact in the water industry? Anglian Water is seeking a dedicated and skilled Project Engineer to join our growing Maintenance Delivery team and help ensure the efficient delivery of capital programmes across our Water Supply assets.

About the Role:

As a Project Engineer, you will play a key role in enabling and coordinating project delivery while ensuring compliance with CDM regulations, technical specifications, operational requirements, and stakeholder needs. You will work closely with operational colleagues, delivery teams, programme management, and other stakeholders to drive efficient project execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Capital Maintenance Delivery: Support the end-to-end capital delivery process, ensuring maximum risk reduction and value for expenditure.

• Programme Delivery: Coordinate and support the execution of regional maintenance programmes, ensuring accurate asset data management and monthly reporting.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively engage with all stakeholders, ensuring the accuracy of project data and capturing efficiency data.

• Health and Safety: Complete and comply with all operational site H&S requirements, undertake H&S audits, and produce CDM documentation.

• Safer Every Day: Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety, ensuring consistent H&S standards are maintained.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Appropriate engineering qualification (Electrical or Mechanical)

• Knowledge of Health & Safety and CDM regulations

• Strong IT literacy and commercial acumen

• Experience managing a capital budget and resource planning

• Experience within the water or wastewater environment (desirable not essential)

Skills & Behaviours:

• Excellent stakeholder and customer management skills

• Strong and adaptable communication skills

• Ability to manage and prioritise workloads to meet tight deadlines

• Resilient to feedback and challenge

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 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.  

Closing date: 12/07/26

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