Production Planning Engineer page is loaded## Production Planning Engineerlocations: Huntingdon: Milton Keynes: Northampton: Colchester: Grimsbytime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R33036**Salary: Circa £45,000, dependent on skills and experience Permanent, Full-time, with flexibility for part-time. Base Location: Flexible throughout the Anglian Water region – Hybrid remote****Lincoln, Peterborough, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Ipswich or Colchester.**Make every drop of your career count. Join our team and start making a real difference where it matters!Our Water Services team clean water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out. We borrow water from the environment, store it and treat it to world-class standards to supply safe drinking water to 4.3 million customers in towns and villages from Grimsby in the northeast of our region to Milton Keynes at the south-western tip.Reporting to the Production Planning Manager, you will play a key role in creating daily, weekly and monthly production plans that support the reliable delivery of water across our region. You’ll work closely with operational teams and planners to balance supply and demand, manage constraints, and help ensure our water network operates efficiently and sustainably. As a specialist user of production planning tools, you’ll help drive continuous improvement, support incident management, and ensure our plans remain accurate, implementable and aligned to business needs.**Key Responsibilities:*** Produce accurate and actionable production plans across daily, weekly and monthly timescales* Work closely with long-term planners to align short- and long‑term operational needs* Collaborate with operational teams to communicate plans and respond to changes.* Use production planning tools and data to identify issues, trends and improvement opportunities.* Investigate deviations from the plan and support root cause analysis and mitigation.* Contribute to continuous improvement of planning tools, processes and data quality.* Support incident response by providing insight and guidance from production plans.* Consider maintenance and planned works to minimise operational impact.* Build strong stakeholder relationships across Water Services, Tactical Operations and wider teams.* Previous experience in an operational role with decision‑making responsibilities* Strong understanding of water treatment and distribution processes* Working knowledge of hydraulic principles* Confident user of complex software and modelling tools* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills* Ability to negotiate, influence and collaborate effectively as part of a team* Relevant professional qualification (desirable)**As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:*** Personal private health care* 26 days leave (rising with service) + Bank Holidays, with flexibility for religious holidays* Life Cover at 8x your salary* Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary* Flexible working options* Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%* Bonus scheme* Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyleAnglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we’re proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do! If you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.**Inclusion at Anglian Water** We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We’re proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter, and Armed Forces Covenant, and we’re a Disability Confident employer.**Closing Date: 13/03/2026****Interview Date: Week Commencing 23rd March** #loveeverydrop!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’To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our .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.
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