Salary: Circa £48,000, depending on skills and experience

Permanent, 37 hours p/w

Location: Lincoln, Spalding, Milton Keynes, Bedford or Peterborough. Flexible base location in the West of the Anglian Water region, with travel between sites expected.

Car allowance

Personal private health care

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Double-matched pension scheme

Life assurance at 8 times salary

About the Role

Are you passionate about improving water recycling processes and protecting the environment? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and collaborating across teams? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Anglian Water is looking for aFlow Process Engineerto join our Catchment Flow Compliance Team. In this role, you’ll lead investigations into underperforming sites, develop sustainable solutions, and help optimise water recycling processes to improve flow performance and environmental compliance.

About the team

We play a crucial role in supporting Water Recycling operational teams by offering technical guidance and data analysis for Flow compliance monitoring across all of the flow parameters . We provide expertise on flow regulatory requirements to improve our regions sea and river health, ensuring operational teams have the necessary information to understand their compliance performance and identify emerging risks. By analysing multiple data sources, the team identifies anomalies and issues within Operational Telemetry (OT) data, facilitating targeted interventions. Additionally, we handle regulatory data requests related to flow and storm compliance, leveraging our deep understanding of storm handling systems and telemetry to conduct thorough investigations and data verification including solution design, build and delivery.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead assessments of treatment processes and identify root causes of flow underperformance
• Develop and implement evidence-based solutions to improve flow metrics and reduce environmental risk
• Build business cases for asset enhancements

• Collaborate with Asset Delivery and operational teams to ensure effective implementation of improvements

• Ensure all interventions meet regulatory and internal standards
• Document and communicate benefits of implemented solutions

• Share lessons learned and support continuous improvement across Water Recycling
• Mentor colleagues and promote a culture of innovation and safety

• Work with data teams to monitor performance and ensure long-term benefits of interventions
• Use insights to guide future improvement activities

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum 2 years’ operational experience in water recycling treatment processes with good knowledge of underlying process science
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Knowledge of flow hydraulics and root cause analysis
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (EA, OFWAT)
• UK Driving Licence

Key Behaviours

We’re looking for someone who:

• Builds trust and strong relationships
• Is curious and always exploring new ideas
• Drives efficiency and value for customers
• Leads by example and encourages innovation
• Acts with integrity and does the right thing

Why Join Us?

At Anglian Water, we’re committed to environmental sustainability, innovation, and supporting our people. You’ll be part of a collaborative team making a real difference to water recycling and environmental protection across the region.

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Ready to take the next step in your career? ClickApplyto join our team and help shape the future of water recycling.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.

As a valued employee, you’ll also be entitled to:

• Personal private health care including physiotherapy

• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household

• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Life Assurance at 8 times your salary

• Personal Accident cover – up to 5 times your salary

• Paid time off if you’re physically ormentally unwell

• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave policies

Closing date: Sunday 31st August