Optimisation Delivery Engineer

Job Description

Salary: £42,953 - £47,000 Depending on experience

Ideally based in the Suffolk area but travel will be required within the Anglian Water region covering such areas as Peterborough, Huntingdon, Norwich, Lincoln and Milton Keynes

Permanent, full time – 37 hours per week

Car allowance

Private health care

Double-matched pension

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Life assurance at 8 times salary

At Anglian Water, we’re doing much more than supplying water, we’re shaping a resilient, sustainable future for the region we serve. Every drop matters, and so does every decision we make.

We’re looking for an Optimisation Delivery Engineer to join our Water Optimisation team. This person will play a key role in delivering capital and TOTEX solutions that improve performance, reduce operating costs and help us meet some of our most stretching outcomes, including leakage reduction.

What you’ll be doing

Working as part of our Optimisation Team, you’ll support the end-to-end delivery of optimisation schemes across our water assets, from early concept through to delivery. You’ll collaborate closely with operational colleagues, programme teams, delivery partners and wider stakeholders to ensure solutions are safe, compliant, efficient and aligned with our wider business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of capital and TOTEX solutions, ensuring strong governance, CDM compliance and value for money

• Coordinate and enable optimisation “parcels” across areas such as energy, network optimisation, water losses and condition-based maintenance

• Contribute technical insight to solution development, risk and value management, and investment decision-making

• Act as a client representative within CDM, ensuring standards and responsibilities are met

• Help embed new technologies and innovative approaches to improve system performance

• Provide progress updates on cost, delivery, benefits and efficiencies

• Champion health, safety and environmental excellence, supporting our Safer Every Day culture

About You

You’ll be a confident engineering professional who enjoys working across teams and translating technical solutions into real-world outcomes.

• A higher engineering qualification or degree-level education

• Strong technical and operational knowledge of water assets and systems, from source to tap

• A solid working knowledge of CDM

• An appropriate safety qualification (IOSH minimum)

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• The ability to think analytically, commercially and strategically

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

• Personal private health care

• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)

• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)

• Double-matched pension (maximum 6% employee contribution)

• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more

• 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

• Car allowance

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Ready to make your mark? Apply now and help us deliver a sustainable future.

Closing date: 24/04/2026

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