Salary – Circa £40,000 per annum, salary dependant on skills and experience
Home based & office/site based, Northampton/Bedford/Huntingdon/Milton Keynes/Peterborough/Grantham/Lincoln/Norwich
Permanent full time role, 37 Hours a week
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role offers you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location could be at an operational site or office within the West of our region including (depending on your location); Northampton, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Grantham or Lincoln.
Our services are at the heart of every single family and community in our region. 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 north east of our region to Milton Keynes at the south-western tip.
You will be working closely with the wider business, you’llbe responsible for delivery of an effective and efficient operational scientific strategy for drinking water quality, and ongoing implementation and development of our Drinking Water Safety Planning approach. As part of this you will own the long-term operational strategies for dealing with any deteriorating water quality performance trends. ,. You will also monitor delivery of our drinking water quality legal instruments ensuring that all regulatory expectations and deadlines are met. Additionally, to this you will ensure that all new regulatory requirements and expectations are embedded as required.
Your other responsibilities will also include:
1. Ensure that water quality progress reports and milestone requirements are drafted, signed off and are submitted to the Drinking Water Inspectorate by the required deadlines.
2. Ensure that the wider business understands their responsibilities for delivery of key milestones requirements and that all regulatory deadlines are understood.
3. Ensure that long-term control measures are identified, are clearly evidenced, and are promoted for inclusion in the Drinking Water Quality programme or Capital Maintenance programme.
4. Be recognised as a scientific strategy technical expert within the business
5. Provide water quality training.
6. Provide out of hours local scientific standby cover, being able to provide scientific advice on any asset or area of the company.
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. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
7. Personal private health care
8. 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
9. Flexible working
10. Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
11. Bonus scheme
12. Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
What does it take to be a Policy and Strategy Scientist?
13. Ideally you will be educated to degree level in a relevant scientific subject and be a member of an appropriate professional body
14. Experience of water process science, water quality customer service and public health issues with demonstrable expertise in water treatment and distribution
15. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
16. Full UK driving licence
Why Anglian Water?
We are passionate and committed 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 also take Health and Safety very seriously in everything that we do. There will be some travel involved to our different office locations around the area we serve.
Closing date: 27/07/2025
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