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Anglian Water Services • Colchester | United Kingdom

Bioresources Technician

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £36,920 per annum
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Job Description

£36,920+ 15% shift allowance

Permanent, Full time

Shift based, 12 hour working day, working every other weekend, 7 days worked over 14 on a 2-week rota basis.

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.

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.

Make every drop of your potential count!

We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

  • 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

  • 26 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.

Closing Date: 15th June 2026

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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)
Car allowance
Cinema discounts
Coaching
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces
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
Death in service
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – 2 schemes available
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Employee recognition scheme
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 7% - you pay in 7%, we pay in 14%
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 cash plan
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 assurance
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
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access
Mental health support
Mentoring – including reverse mentoring and family leave returners
Neo-natal leave
On-site catering
On-site shower
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
Physiotherapy
Pregnancy loss leave
Private booths
Private GP service – 24/7, unlimited remote GP appointments for you and your household
Professional subscriptions
Religious celebration leave
Reservist leave
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Shared parental leave – 26 weeks full pay
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Volunteer days

Working at Anglian Water Services

Company employees:

6500

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

66:33:1

Hiring in countries

United Kingdom

Office Locations

Awards & Accreditations

2nd - Best Employee Wellbeing

2nd - Best Employee Wellbeing

Flexa awards 2026

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