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Anglian Water Services • Lincoln | Haverhill | East Dereham Water Treatment Works | Thetford | United Kingdom

Environmental Risk Reduction Technician

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  From £36,500 per annum
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Job Description

Environmental Risk Reduction Technicians

Starting Salary £36,500 -this role also has the benefit of a company van for business use .

We offer a wide range of benefits including private health care, virtual GP service for you and your household, and a generous pension scheme – we double-match your contributions, up to 6%, giving you an 18% combined contribution.

Location: We have 3 exciting opportunities for this role-

  • Lincolnshire & Surrounding area

  • Essex & Suffolk & surrounding area

  • Norfolk & Cambridgeshire area

Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, with flexibility for part-time working

Water Recycling is at the heart of our operations. Our skilled in‑house teams collect and treat used water, returning it safely to the environment via rivers and coastal outlets. With over 76,000 kilometres of sewers and more than 1,000 Water Recycling Centres, we play a critical role in protecting our region’s environment.

For a great career just add water!

The Role

As an Environmental Risk Reduction Technician, you will help protect our environment by driving down pollution risk across our Water Recycling Centres (WRCs) and Pumping Stations (PSs).
Your primary focus will be delivering proactive site audits, ensuring compliance, and identifying improvements to prevent pollution events. You will work closely with local Operations teams, offering specialist support, sharing best practice and helping embed consistent standards across the region.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver proactive audits across WRCs and PSs, raising and tracking actions to completion
  • Complete assurance checks on local audits to ensure accuracy and consistency.
  • Identify recurring issues and themes, sharing insights with the Process Performance Team.
  • Support Environment Agency OSM audits, providing technical guidance and helping embed improvements.
  • Produce and maintain Environmental Risk Management Plans (ERMPs).
  • Support the rollout of pollution‑prevention initiatives and standardised processes.
  • Carry out assurance checks on environmental policies and operational compliance.
  • Provide clear feedback, coaching and best‑practice guidance to Operations teams.

What We’re Looking For

  • Understanding of Water Recycling processes.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship‑building skills.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively across multiple operational areas.
  • IT literate (Excel, Word, Office 365) and experience using systems such as IRIS and SAP would be advantageous
  • Commitment to environmental protection and continuous improvement.
  • Strong organisational and administrative skills.
  • Confident communicator (written and verbal) with the ability to interpret and present technical data clearly to different stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical skills, including data handling and spreadsheet proficiency (functions, formulas, linking, sorting).
  • Full UK driving licence

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a real difference.
We are committed to building a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We support the Social Mobility Pledge, are signatories to Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter, hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant, are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, and proudly support the Women’s Utility Network.

If you are passionate about protecting the environment and want to develop your career with a company that values your contribution, please apply today.

Closing Date: Sunday 08th March
Interview Dates: Wednesday 25th , Thursday 26th & Friday 27th March

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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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