Anglian Water Services
Engineering Standards and Governance Lead
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Engineering Standards & Governance Lead
Salary: Circa £55,000, depending on skills and experience
Full-time, with flexibility for part-time.
37 hours per week/permanent
Location: Flexible across the region - Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office weekly
Benefits:
- Private health care
- Double-matched pension
- Life assurance at 8 times salary
About the Role
At Anglian Water, the reliability of our Bioresources operations depends on robust engineering standards, effective maintenance strategies, and people with the right technical capabilities. We are looking for an Engineering Standards & Governance Lead to provide engineering leadership across the maintenance standards, assurance, and competency arrangements supporting our Bioresources assets.
You will establish a consistent and auditable engineering framework covering CHP, gas, SRP, sludge treatment, and associated critical infrastructure. Working alongside engineers, technicians, operational teams, and specialist partners, you will ensure our maintenance activities are safe, risk-based, technically robust, and aligned with regulatory, process safety, and operational requirements.
This is an influential opportunity for an experienced engineering, maintenance, or asset-management professional who can combine technical credibility with strong governance, strategic thinking, and stakeholder engagement.
What you’ll be doing
You will take ownership of the engineering maintenance standards that define how our critical Bioresources assets are maintained, assured, and improved. Using your engineering knowledge and judgment, you will translate technical requirements into practical standards, maintenance procedures, and ways of working that can be applied consistently across our operations. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Own and develop engineering maintenance standards for Bioresources assets, including CHP, gas, SRP, and sludge treatment.
- Apply engineering judgment and risk-based thinking to ensure standards are practical, technically robust, and fit for purpose.
- Ensure maintenance standards meet OEM, statutory, regulatory, and process safety requirements.
- Work with engineers, technical specialists, and suppliers to embed standards into maintenance plans, procedures, and asset-care activities.
- Provide technical governance and assurance, identifying engineering risks, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
- Define and maintain engineering competency and authorisation requirements, ensuring work is undertaken by appropriately skilled people.
- Build resilience across specialist engineering skills, critical assets, and out-of-hours maintenance capability.
- Help shape future engineering capability through new technology, digital, and predictive maintenance, and continuous improvement.
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What you’ll bring
You will bring a strong engineering or maintenance skillset, together with the confidence to influence technical specialists, operational leaders, and external partners. We are looking for:
- Engineering, maintenance, or asset management experience within an industrial, utilities, or process environment.
- Comfortable working across detailed engineering requirements and wider technical governance, ensuring that standards are not only well designed but practical, understood, and consistently applied.
- Experience developing or governing engineering maintenance standards, strategies, and technical documentation.
- Strong understanding of asset reliability, engineering risk, process safety, and regulatory compliance.
- Ability to interpret technical and OEM requirements and translate them into clear, practical engineering standards.
- Experience of technical assurance, competency management, and risk-based decision-making.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide technical challenge and drive consistent engineering standards.
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Why Anglian Water?
This is an opportunity to shape the engineering foundations of maintenance across our Bioresources operations. Your work will influence how critical assets are maintained, how engineering risks are controlled, and how technical decisions are translated into consistent action. You will help establish clearer engineering standards, stronger technical assurance, and greater confidence that specialist maintenance is undertaken by appropriately skilled and authorised people.
If you are motivated by engineering excellence, asset reliability, process safety, and the opportunity to create lasting operational improvements, we would like to hear from you.
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
- Personal private health care
- Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
- Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
- Double-matched pension (maximum 7% employee/14% employer contribution)
- 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
- 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 to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
Inclusion at Anglian Water
We value the representation & diversity within our communities. 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: Tuesday 13th October
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