Sampler - Shift

Starting Salary: £29,120 per annum + shift allowance Full-time / 12 month Fixed Term contract / Shift Pattern - 4 on 4 off Location: Norfolk area Join our Essential Sampling Team! Every drop of drinking water undergoes rigorous cleaning, disinfection, and testing before it reaches our customers. After use, it flows through our sewers, is treated at our recycling works, and is then returned to nature. To ensure the safety and quality of our water and to protect the environment from pollutants, our dedicated sampling team of 120 experts works relentlessly, collecting thousands of samples each year from water treatment facilities, recycling centres, reservoirs, rivers, boreholes, and customer properties across the region.

What You'll Be Doing:

In this vital role, you'll help Anglian Water maintain compliance with water quality regulations by following a sampling program set by our regulators. You'll also handle additional investigative sampling as needed. Traveling extensively between various sites, you'll be working independently to prepare sampling bottles, gather samples, and safely transport them to our laboratories, where your contributions are essential to the analysis process. No two days are the same-your route, sampling points, and the skills required will vary, and you'll be working in all kinds of weather. As the face of Anglian Water at customer properties and trade sites, you'll be expected to act professionally and answer any questions about the sampling process. At work and environmental sites, you'll play a key role in maintaining health, safety, and operational procedures. Of course, all of this requires strict adherence to Health & Safety guidelines, our lone working policy, and the quality standards set out in our Water Quality Sampling procedures and ISO17025 accreditation.

What We Offer:

• Personal private health care
• Generous double match pension - contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 25 days annual leave - rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave.
• Opportunity for shared parental pay
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

What We Need From You:

• A full, valid UK manual driving licence and a clear understanding of the challenges of occupational driving
• Experience in following procedures, safe working systems, and risk assessments
• Ability to meet deadlines without compromising safety or quality
• A customer-focused attitude with enthusiasm for delivering great service
• Confidence to approach customers unannounced for water samples
• Basic knowledge of IT tools like Word, Excel, and Outlook, with a willingness to learn new systems
• Availability for a standby rota, including evening and weekend sampling
• Comfortable with manual lifting up to and including 25kg
• While a scientific A-Level is desirable, it's not essential

Closing date: 14th September 2026

Why Join Us?

In return for your dedication, we offer a dynamic and important role with a high level of autonomy, giving you the chance to explore the scenic beauty of the Anglian region-come rain or shine. We are committed to fostering learning and development, ensuring that our employees have the skills and knowledge they need to thrive and reach their full potential.

If you are successful, you'll undergo the usual employment checks, including verification of your right to work in the UK, references, driving licence, and identity. Some roles may require additional checks.

Equality and Inclusion

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 reach out to our team