Production Planning Engineer

Job Description

Salary: Circa £45,000, dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, Full-time, with flexibility for part-time.
Base Location: Flexible throughout the Anglian Water region – Hybrid remote

Lincoln, Peterborough, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Ipswich or Colchester.

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.

Reporting to the Production Planning Manager, you will play a key role in creating daily, weekly and monthly production plans that support the reliable delivery of water across our region. You’ll work closely with operational teams and planners to balance supply and demand, manage constraints, and help ensure our water network operates efficiently and sustainably. As a specialist user of production planning tools, you’ll help drive continuous improvement, support incident management, and ensure our plans remain accurate, implementable and aligned to business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce accurate and actionable production plans across daily, weekly and monthly timescales

• Work closely with long-term planners to align short- and long‑term operational needs

• Collaborate with operational teams to communicate plans and respond to changes.

• Use production planning tools and data to identify issues, trends and improvement opportunities.

• Investigate deviations from the plan and support root cause analysis and mitigation.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of planning tools, processes and data quality.

• Support incident response by providing insight and guidance from production plans.

• Consider maintenance and planned works to minimise operational impact.

• Build strong stakeholder relationships across Water Services, Tactical Operations and wider teams.

What does it take to be a Production Planning Engineer?

• Previous experience in an operational role with decision‑making responsibilities

• Strong understanding of water treatment and distribution processes

• Working knowledge of hydraulic principles

• Confident user of complex software and modelling tools

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to negotiate, influence and collaborate effectively as part of a team

• Relevant professional qualification (desirable)

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

• Personal private health care

• 26 days leave (rising with service) + Bank Holidays, with flexibility for religious holidays

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

• Flexible working options

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

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

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!
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.

Closing Date: 13/03/2026

Interview Date: Week Commencing 23rd March
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