Project Engineer

time left to apply End Date: July 29, 2025 (12 days left to apply)

job requisition id R31450

Salary: Circa £45,000, with opportunity for progression

Permanent, 37 hours
Location:Wing, Oakham

Hybrid working - Expectation is 2 days a week on site, 3 from home

Car allowance
Private health care

Virtual GP service

Join Anglian Water as a Project Engineer - Maintenance Delivery!

Are you an experienced engineer looking to make a significant impact in the water industry? Anglian Water is seeking a dedicated and skilled Project Engineer to join our growing Maintenance Delivery team and help ensure the efficient delivery of capital programmes across our Water Supply assets.

About the Role:

As a Project Engineer, you will play a key role in enabling and coordinating project delivery while ensuring compliance with CDM regulations, technical specifications, operational requirements, and stakeholder needs. You will work closely with operational colleagues, delivery teams, programme management, and other stakeholders to drive efficient project execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Capital Maintenance Delivery:Support the end-to-end capital delivery process, ensuring maximum risk reduction and value for expenditure.
• Programme Delivery:Coordinate and support the execution of regional maintenance programmes, ensuring accurate asset data management and monthly reporting.
• Stakeholder Engagement:Proactively engage with all stakeholders, ensuring the accuracy of project data and capturing efficiency data.
• Health and Safety:Complete and comply with all operational site H&S requirements, undertake H&S audits, and produce CDM documentation.
• Safer Every Day:Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety, ensuring consistent H&S standards are maintained.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Appropriate engineering qualification (Electrical or Mechanical)
• Knowledge of Health & Safety and CDM regulations
• Strong IT literacy and commercial acumen
• Experience managing a capital budget and resource planning
• Experience within the water or wastewater environment (desirable)

Skills & Behaviours:

• Excellent stakeholder and customer management skills
• Strong and adaptable communication skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise workloads to meet tight deadlines
• Resilient to feedback and challenge

As 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% (resulting in a combined contribution of 18%)
• Business use of company vanplus access to tools and all uniform and PPE
• 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
• Lots of great discounts!
• 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.
• Flexible working hours considered (reviewed on an individual basis)

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 '

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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.