Process Technician - Shift

Job Description

Salary - From £30,500 dependent on skills and experience + 20% shift allowance

Location – Rutland, Oakham, Corby, Peterborough and surrounding areas.

Permanent, 24/7 shift pattern consisting of the following shifts: 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm, 10pm- 6am.

Love Every Drop!

Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding career, at a company committed to investing in your training and development? Join us for the opportunity to gain valuable skills, qualifications and experience, whilst being part of a company dedicated to building a sustainable future.

Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding career, at a company committed to investing in your training and development? Join us for the opportunity to gain valuable skills, qualifications and experience, whilst being part of a company dedicated to building a sustainable future.

This team-oriented position will see you joining one of our Water Supply Teams where you will ensure that the water supply process delivers wholesome drinking water to our customers. As part of the role, you will be operating one of Anglian Waters largest water treatment works, monitoring and adjusting treatment processes to match our customer demands, water quality needs and communicating with various stakeholders. Your role will be to produce drinking water to high quality standards for our customers, in the most cost efficient and safe manner. You’ll complete on site testing to provide assurance of online instruments and validate processes and proactively review water quality trends and asset performance and take action to prevent failure.

Key Responsibilities :

Process Monitoring & Control: Using computer systems like SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) to monitor water flow, pressure, and tank levels in real-time.

• Water Quality Testing: Collecting and analysing water samples to check for pH levels, metals, bacteria, and other contaminants to ensure they meet strict Drinking Water Quality Standards.

• Network & Demand Management: Monitoring real-time demand patterns to tailor our production and subsequent output.

• Chemical Management: Calculating and adjusting the dosing of chemicals (such as chlorine or coagulants) to purify the water and safely managing the storage and delivery of these hazardous materials.

• Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine inspections and first-line maintenance on pumps, filters, and valves to prevent system failures

• Pumping and Inflow Management: Coordinating large-scale abstraction from nearby rivers to maintain reservoir levels.

• Incident Response: Responding to system alarms or pollution incidents in raw water sources (like rivers) to stop contaminated water from entering the treatment plant.

What do you need?

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.

We’ll provide full and on-going training to help you to understand in detail the water treatment process.

You’ll need a flexible approach to working hours as this role operates a 24/7, 365 day 1 in 6 shift pattern consisting of the following shifts: 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm, 10pm- 6am. You will be expected to provide cross-cover for colleagues during periods of planned leave or unplanned absence to ensure 24/7 operational continuity.

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

Being a successful water company doesn't come easy! Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:

• Bonus scheme

• Dental Plan

• Access to tools, all uniform and PPE

• Private health care

• Competitive pension scheme

• 23 days annual leave – rising with length of service – Able to buy and sell annual leave

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Pension Scheme – We double your contribution

• 20% Shift allowance on top of your salary

• Electric Vehicle scheme

• Overtime rates will apply for additional working.

Why Anglian Water?

Come and join us at Anglian Water and have an exciting and rewarding career, at a company committed to investing in your training and development. Join us for the opportunity to gain valuable skills, qualifications, and experience, whilst being part of a company dedicated to building a sustainable future.

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: 16/06/2026