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Anglian Water Services • Boston | United Kingdom

Plant Operator

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  From £38,000 per annum
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Salary- circa £38,000 – depending on skills and experience
+ Performance related bonus
+ Private healthcare
+ Pension
Permanent
Full time
Based in Boston

Dive into a world of opportunity!

Are you a hardworking, proactive and self-motivated individual?

If so, this could be the right position for you!

At Alpheus (a wholly owned part of the Anglian Water Group) we offer commercial and industrial customers a comprehensive range of specialist water & wastewater asset management services and process solutions, tailored to meet their needs.

Reporting to the Service Delivery Manager you are responsible for the successful delivery of operational tasks associated with the management of a large wastewater treatment facility on a prestigious customer site. Your role will support the achievement of regulatory, financial, environmental and customer performance targets associated with the contract.

The key purpose of this role is to:

· Ensure the plant is fully monitored and controlled. Proactively owing and completing routine operations, sampling, cleaning, proactive data trending, monitoring, and reporting.

· Work in a safe efficient manner at all times.

· Working within a small onsite team and with the wider Alpheus technical and management teams to help produce daily and monthly reports as required.

· One of your key objectives will be to build excellent customer relationships, ensuring excellent value and benefit is delivered to our client

· Work closely with your team colleagues and our technical and management teams, sharing responsibility for the continued development and optimisation of the facility

· Work closely with the customer’s mechanical and electrical team, and other contractors, to ensure the plant is well maintained and available at all times

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

· Personal private health care

· 25 days annual leave – rising with length of service

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

· Performance related bonus scheme of up to 8%

· A whole host of other flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

What does it take to be a Plant Operator?

· Excellent wastewater treatment knowledge

· Excellent H&S knowledge

· Good computer literacy skills to record process data, generate site reports, and monitor SCADA systems

· Good knowledge of key aspects of environmental legislation.

· DAF and membrane knowledge and experience would be an advantage

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

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.

Closing date: 8th April 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)
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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