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Anglian Water Services • Louth, Lincolnshire | United Kingdom

Electrical Technician

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £44,000 per annum

Job Description

£44,000, plus overtime and standby, with opportunity for pay progression

Business use of company van, tools and PPE equipment

Permanent, 37 hours p/w

Location: Louth, South Grimsby, Horncastle, Market Rasen, Skegness and Mablethorpe and surrounding areas

Personal private health care including physiotherapy

24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household

25 days annual leave – rising with length of service

Double-matched pension scheme

Think electricity and water don’t mix? Think again...

Our skilled team of industrial electricians are a vital part of the Water Supply family; keeping our treatment works running smoothly to ensure the supply of 1.3bn litres of clean, safe drinking water to 5 million customers, every single day.

We’re looking to grow our team, building resilience through training, development and with clear routes for career progression. Join us as we gear up for a period of huge growth, with new and innovative projects transforming the way we work, whilst staying true to our purpose; to bring social and environmental prosperity to the region we serve.

You’ll get the opportunity to gain valuable skills, qualifications and experience, while being part of a company dedicated to building a sustainable future.

What does it take to be an Electrical Asset Technician?

You will have completed an apprenticeship and relevant electrical qualification.

Your ability to learn quickly and use your own initiative to solve problems is essential for this role and you will train alongside an experienced Technician to ensure you gain all the skills and knowledge required.

As well as carrying out planned & reactive maintenance on our electrical assets, you will work towards a Licence to Operate Qualification to enable you to operate and maintain water treatment assets and processes.

Key responsibilities:

You’ll be responsible for wiring, installing, maintaining and controlling the high diversity of electrical equipment necessary to treat and distribute water.

This includes:

  • Calibrating and maintaining technical analytical equipment to adhere to water quality

  • Proactively investigate asset trends and carry out electrical interventions

  • Manage and assist electrical framework contractors and internal high voltage, optimisation and automation teams

  • Utilise electrical drawings and extensive electrical knowledge to troubleshoot and resolve issues

  • Liaise with other team members to react to technical issues to maintain water supply

Stand-by and overtime

You’ll need a flexible approach to working hours as you will be required to take part in a standby rota. To be able to undertake your standby duties you will need to live within the area highlighted in the job posting.

Stand-by would typically be worked at least one day per week, this would attract an additional stand-by payment for being available. In the event of a call out, you will receive overtime payments per hour for work carried out. This is at a rate of time and one half for work conducted before midnight and double time for any work conducted after midnight.

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

  • 25 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 van plus access to tools and all uniform and PPE

  • Bonus scheme

  • 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)

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, hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers, are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

If you are offered a job with us, you will be subject to the relevant/standard employment checks, including: your right to work in the UK, reference, driving licence and identity check. Depending on your role, you may also be subject to a criminal record check and a drug and alcohol test.

Closing date: 10th August 2025

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

Hiring in countries

United Kingdom

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