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Anglian Water Services • Norwich | Diss | Great Yarmouth | Cromer | Dereham | United Kingdom

Project Engineer - Civils

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £46,000 per annum

Job Description

Salary - Circa £46,000 depending on skills and experience + Car Allowance

Permanent, 37 hours p/w

Base location is flexible, with travel required across the Anglian Water region

Car Allowance

Personal private health care

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Double-matched pension scheme

Life assurance at 8 times salary

Lead critical infrastructure projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and make a real impact.

Water storage points are vital to our water supply network, holding large volumes of water to meet demand, particularly during peak periods like summer. Regular refurbishment is essential to maintain their performance and ensure communities have reliable access to safe, clean water.

As a Civils Project Engineer in the new Supply Maintenance Delivery Team, you’ll oversee the full lifecycle of the water storage point refurbishment projects, ensuring they meet technical standards and operational requirements. You’ll work in a newly established team, collaborating closely with the Civils Delivery Manager to drive improvements in water efficiency and strengthen the resilience of the water network.

This is your chance to lead impactful projects and directly contribute to maintaining essential infrastructure that keeps water flowing where it’s needed most.

Your Role:

  • Project Delivery & Risk Management: Oversee the full project lifecycle, identifying risks early and implementing proactive solutions

  • Programme Coordination & Reporting: Drive project efficiency through effective coordination and accurate tracking of project data, cost and milestones

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to ensure successful project execution, escalating risks where needed

  • Health & Safety Compliance: Champion site safety standards by overseeing compliance and conducting regular audits

Your qualifications and experience:

  • Engineering qualification or equivalent experience

  • Strong technical background in Water or Wastewater projects

  • Knowledge of H&S and CDM regulations

  • Capital budget management experience

  • Contract management & site supervision experience

Your skills & approach:

  • Excellent stakeholder management & communication skills

  • Strong decision-making & problem-solving abilities

  • Resilient, adaptable, and able to work under pressure

  • Commercial awareness with cost & risk analysis expertise

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

  • Personal private health care including physiotherapy

  • 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household

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

  • Bonus scheme

  • Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

  • Life Assurance at 8 times your salary

  • Personal Accident cover – up to 5 times your salary

  • Paid time off if you’re physically or mentally unwell

  • An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave policies

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.

Closing date: 13/05/26

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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
Neo-natal 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

Working at Anglian Water Services

Company employees:

6500

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

66:33:1

Hiring in countries

United Kingdom

Office Locations

Awards & Accreditations

2nd - Best Employee Wellbeing

2nd - Best Employee Wellbeing

Flexa awards 2026