Anglian Water Services
Enabling Lead
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Enabling Lead
Location: Peterborough
Contract: Permanent/Full time
Salary: Dependent on experience and skills
About the Role
At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will:
- Build trust
- Do the right thing
- And we are always exploring
Who are we?
The IOS Contract is a 5-year programme valued at approximately £444 million, delivering specialist water and water recycling projects.
This role involves managing projects under the NEC3 contract suite, with a focus on Option E (Pre-Contract Planning) and Option A (Priced Contract with Activity Schedule).
The successful candidate will manage various delivery teams to ensure robust management of contractual obligations and compliance with Anglian Water’s governance standards.
The role is employed by Anglian Water and involves working in partnership with alliance partners Barhale, Kier, and MGroup.
What will you be doing as our new Enabling Lead
The Enabling Lead plays a critical role in delivering IOS projects by identifying, managing, and mitigating environmental and consenting risks from concept through to construction.
Responsible for securing all necessary permits, licences, consents, and agreements, they ensure projects progress efficiently and compliantly.
Working closely with design, engineering, and construction teams, the Enabling Lead embeds a “Right First Time” approach, helping to design out risk, reduce delays, and optimise delivery outcomes.
Acting as a key interface with regulators, local authorities, environmental bodies, land agents, and supply chain partners, they build strong stakeholder relationships that support timely approvals and responsible project delivery.
A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours
- Influence project design and delivery strategies to eliminate risk, reduce cost, and minimise programme impacts through a Right First Time approach.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with regulators, local authorities, landowners, and other external stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
- Identify and assess environmental, planning, heritage, and land constraints using GIS and other risk assessment tools.
- Produce and manage enabling deliverables, including Enabling Risk Assessments and GIS constraint mapping.
- Evaluate environmental and consenting risks, providing clear recommendations to engineering, design, and construction teams.
- Support supplier selection and management, ensuring capability, capacity, and delivery requirements are aligned to project needs.
- Demonstrate strong commercial awareness, challenging costs appropriately and driving value through the supply chain.
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Why Anglian Water?
At Anglian Water, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure their hard work is recognised and rewarded. Some of our benefits include:
- Bonus scheme
- Private healthcare
- Competitive pension scheme
- Min 25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets, and a Cycle2Work scheme
- Free parking at all offices, site, and leisure parks
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
Inclusion is for everyone
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.
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If this opportunity to add value to deliver on vital projects appeals to you and you feel this is the next step in your career aspirations, then please apply today.
Closing date: 31st July 2026
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We are committed to reflecting 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 in touch with our team at resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk.
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Become a part of Anglian Water’s future
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.
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