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Anglian Water Services • Colchester | United Kingdom

Bioresources Technican

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £33,496 per annum
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£33,496 per annum

Permanent

Full time,

40.25 hours a week (Monday- Friday)

Colchester

Test the water and explore a new career!

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water are an award-winning organisation, with almost 5,000 employees and over 6 million customers. We’re proud to have been voted as the best place to work in the UK and to be winners of the prestigious Utility of the Year award. 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.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

- Personal private healthcare

- Virtual and telephone GP service for your household

- Life and personal accident cover

- Employee Assistance Programme, helpline for you and your immediate family providing advice, information, counselling and support

- Yearly bonus scheme

- Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions, up to 6%

- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle including discounts on high street purchases, leisure activities and everyday essentials

- 25 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy/sell additional leave

What will you be doing?

As a Bioresources Technician you will be responsible for ensuring Water Recycling treatment processes and systems are serviced and maintained so that they run effectively and efficiently meeting regulatory standards such as H&S, HACCP and Compliance.

Key duties:

- Carrying out regulatory safety checks on boilers in line with current relevant Health & Safety Executive Guidelines, as well as implementing agreed actions on Compliance Action Plans

- Investigating problems and promoting corrective actions within your skill level and capability, maintaining equipment processes using basic mechanical skill and monitoring of performance of contractors carrying our remedial work on wastewater assets while also carrying out condition-based monitoring and reporting back on asset condition.

- Maintaining communications across the site team on all site operations and activities, inspecting safety equipment to include legionella testing, gas, electricity, emergency lighting and reporting any issues.

What does it take to be a Bioresources Technician?

- Ability to work in a team as well as working on your own

- Experience working within an operational role

- Strong communicator- someone who can liaise with various teams of people confidently

- Be able to demonstrate a proactive and flexible approach to site priorities

- Willingness to learn, take initiative and be flexible

- Ability to use basic Microsoft packages including Outlook, Teams etc and database systems (training provided on internal systems where required)

- Exhibit a hands-on positive attitude

- Must be able to work within a confined space, and at height without restrictions. Due to harness weight limits, your maximum weight cannot be in excess of 113 kilograms, you will be expected to complete relevant occupational health checks

-Full UK driving licence required.

Closing date: 29/3/26

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Company benefits

25-30 days annual leave + bank holidays
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bank holiday swaps
Bike parking – Secure bike parks at main offices
Buy or sell annual leave – 5 days (pro rata'd if part time)
Cinema discounts
Company car
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance – Personal Accident cover - providing a lump sum in the case of an accident leading to injury, death or disablement at any time, whether you are on company business or not
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – 2 schemes available
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay
Enhanced pension match/contribution – Double the contribution you make up to 6% - you pay in 6%, we pay in 12%
Enhanced sick pay
Eye Care Support – Free eye tests for visual display unit (VDU) users, along with free/discounts on glasses
Faith rooms
Family health insurance – Discounted family health insurance. Available to select annually.
Fertility treatment leave
Further education support
Gym membership – Discounted gym membership
Hackathons
Health assessment
Health insurance – Private Healthcare scheme including cover for pre-existing conditions
In house training
Income protection – Should you be unwell and unable to work for a period of time, the Income Replacement scheme may provide you with income for two years combined with sickness absence
Interest free loans
Learning platform
Life insurance – 8 times your basic annual salary
Loyalty programme – Awards for long service, along with increase in annual leave allowance
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Neo-natal leave
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Paid fostering leave – 5 days paid
Pregnancy loss leave
Private GP service – 24/7, unlimited remote GP appointments for you and your household
Professional subscriptions
Religious celebration leave
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Shared parental leave – 26 weeks full pay
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Volunteer days
Work from anywhere scheme – Available to those employees whose work can be done fully remotely
Reservist leave

Working at Anglian Water Services

Company employees:

6500

Gender diversity (m:f:n-b):

66:33:1

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United Kingdom

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