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Anglian Water Services

Production Enablement Manager

Salary:  £63,500 – £70,000 per annum
Location:  Northampton | Milton Keynes | Corby | Bedford | Huntingdon | Peterborough | United Kingdom
Location flexibility:  3 office days / week
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Job Description

Salary: £63,500 - £70,000, dependent on skills and experience + car allowance
Permanent, Full-time, 37 Hours
Base Location flexible with travel across Rutland, Bedford, Northampton, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Milton Keynes and Corby.

Make every drop of your career count. Join our team and start making a real difference where it matters!

Our Water Services team clean water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out. We borrow water from the environment, store it and treat it to world-class standards to supply safe drinking water to 4.3 million customers in towns and villages from Grimsby in the northeast of our region to Milton Keynes at the south-western tip.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Production Enablement Manager to join our Ruthamford Production Leadership Team.

You will provide the critical link between production strategy and operational delivery, ensuring maintenance priorities, asset health requirements, technical support and resource capability are aligned to improve production performance and resilience.

Leading a multi-disciplinary team of technical specialists, engineers and support professionals, you'll create the conditions that allow operational teams to succeed whilst driving the transition to a more proactive, integrated and production-led operating model.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the Production Enablement function, ensuring production priorities are translated into deliverable operational activity.
  • Coordinate operational, maintenance and technical activity to protect production capability and system resilience.
  • Drive alignment between maintenance planning, asset health priorities and production requirements.
  • Identify and resolve barriers, dependencies and resource constraints affecting delivery.
  • Lead and develop a team of technical experts, creating a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Oversee major capital programmes, ensuring risk, cost, timescales and operational impacts are effectively managed.
  • Establish governance, performance measures and escalation processes to support resilient operations.
  • Support the delivery of the Production Transformation Programme and future operating model.
  • Champion innovation and best practice to improve operational performance and production resilience.

What does it take to be a Production Enablement Manager?

  • Degree-level qualification or equivalent operational experience.
  • Proven experience within water supply operations or a comparable operational environment.
  • Strong understanding of production, storage and distribution systems.
  • Experience leading and developing technical teams and subject matter experts.
  • Demonstrable experience delivering operational improvements and major programmes.
  • Strong stakeholder management, planning and influencing skills.
  • Experience using operational data to drive decision-making and performance improvements.
  • Project and programme management capability with a continuous improvement mindset.

Why Anglian Water?
Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. 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!


We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

  • Personal private health care
  • Generous double match pension – contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%
  • 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
  • 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
  • Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
  • Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
  • 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
  • Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

If you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference, then 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.

We may offer part time/flexible working depending on the role requirements, this can be discussed openly at interview

Closing Date: 17/11/2026


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Hybrid

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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)
Car allowance
Cinema discounts
Coaching
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces
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
Death in service
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – 2 schemes available
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Employee recognition scheme
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 7% - you pay in 7%, we pay in 14%
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 cash plan
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 assurance
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
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access
Mental health support
Mentoring – including reverse mentoring and family leave returners
Neonatal leave
On-site catering
On-site shower
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
Physiotherapy
Pregnancy loss leave
Private booths
Private GP service – 24/7, unlimited remote GP appointments for you and your household
Professional subscriptions
Religious celebration leave
Reservist leave
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Shared parental leave – 26 weeks full pay
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Volunteer days

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Company employees:

6500

Gender diversity (m:f:n-b):

66:33:1

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