Enterprise Control Lead

Job Description

Enterprise Control Lead

Salary: Circa £58,000 depending on experience
Fixed Term Contract (End of 2028), Full-time, with flexibility for part-time
Base Location: Thorpe Wood House, Peterborough (Hybrid Working)

Our services are at the heart of every community in our region. As part of Water Services, we clean and deliver high quality drinking water to millions of customers and carefully manage it to ensure long-term resilience.

As our Enterprise Control Lead, you’ll help prepare the business to operate one of Anglian Water’s most significant infrastructure programmes — the 300km+ Strategic Pipeline (Interconnector 1). This digitally enabled transfer system is designed to improve drought resilience and transform how water moves across our region.

You’ll act as the key link between Water Supply, the Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Digital design team and the Strategic Pipeline Integration (SPI) Programme, ensuring the business is ready to adopt and manage the new Enterprise Control System. Your work will shape how assets are operated using advanced digital control and data management, influence new ways of working across operational teams, and support the successful integration of the Strategic Interconnector into the wider AW network.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation and ongoing operation of the Enterprise Control System, developing strong understanding of its architecture, data structures and functionality.

• Work with designers and Subject Matter Experts to define and optimise how the strategic pipeline is operated, ensuring project deliverables meet front-line requirements.

• Identify opportunities for system enhancements, efficiency improvements and future value creation, producing supporting business cases where required.

• Lead process mapping to establish clear operating, maintenance and change control frameworks, including governance and version management once the system has been implemented control frameworks, including governance and version management once in BAU.

• Define the organisational roles needed to support future operations and ensure effective transition from project delivery.

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and SMEs to ensure shared understanding and alignment across Water Services, SPA and the wider business.

• Support change management by contributing technical content, delivering training, and helping embed long-term learning pathways for system users.

• Promote cultural change, particularly in data quality, version control and cross-team collaboration, while sharing best practice across SPA and AW.

• Maintain high standards of health and safety, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, reporting near misses, and supporting continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge and experience of SCADA system design and operation.

• Understanding of object-oriented design principles within industrial control environments.

• Experience using modern programming languages for control related product development.

• Knowledge of role-based access control and digital control product lifecycle management.

• Degree level education in a relevant engineering or technical discipline (essential); postgraduate qualification desirable.

• Experience with Inductive Automation’s Ignition Platform (desirable).

• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate effective decision making.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to balance competing priorities and maintain strong working relationships.

• Collaborative, approachable, and able to inspire and motivate teams across disciplines.

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

• Personal private health care

• 26 days annual leave (rising with service) + Bank Holidays, with flexibility for religious holidays

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident Cover – up to 5x your salary

• Flexible working options

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double matches your contributions up to 6%matches your contributions up to 6%

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we’re proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you’re passionate about what you do and want to shape the future of water resilience in our region, we’d love to hear from you.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We’re proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter, and Armed Forces Covenant, and we’re a Disability Confident employer.

Closing Date: 04/03/2026
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