time left to apply End Date: August 26, 2025 (7 days left to apply)

job requisition id R31800

Salary – circa £ 4 5,000 depending on skills and experience

Location: Flexible around the Anglian Water region, with ability to travel to sites when required .

Personal private health care

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Are you passionate about protecting water resources and driving environmental resilience? Anglian Water is seeking a Hydrogeologist to lead critical investigation projects that shape our future water quality and resource strategies. This is a unique opportunity to apply your hydrogeolog ical expertise in a role that blends technical project management, stakeholder engagement, and environmental risk assessment .

About the role

As a Hydrogeologist, you’ll play a key role in managing technical groundwater investigation projects that assess quality risks to our water sources, particularly from PFAS and other anthropogenic contaminants . Working within the Water Resources and Drought Team, you’l l oversee project delivery, support drought response and water quality initiatives, and contribute to the safe execution of capital programmes such as borehole rehabilitation and quality/ yield investigations. Your work will support the development of future water resource strategies and investment planning.

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing day-to-day delivery of groundwater quality -related projects and consultant / contractor relationships.
• Supporting the safe and efficient delivery of groundwater-related capital programmes (e.g. borehole rehabilitation, water quality investigations).
• Ensuring full compliance with Health & Safety standards and CDM regulations.
• Liaising with external stakeholders such as the Environment Agency to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Providing technical input to support future investment planning and business risk mitigation.
• Supporting source protection through catchment monitoring and investigation .

What we’re looking for:

• A postgraduate degree in hydrogeology or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Proven project management skills and experience delivering technical projects.
• Working knowledge of water quality, water resources, and contaminated land regulations.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to present technical information to technical and non-technical audiences .
• A proactive, safety-conscious mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement.

A s a valued employee, you’ll 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%
• Flexible benefits and working culture 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 when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave policies.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

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.

Ready to make a difference?
Apply now and help us shape the future of groundwater management.

About Us

We are committed to reflect 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 reach out to our team resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk ’

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Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and 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.