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Anglian Water Services

Storage Point Operations Lead

Salary:  £55,000 – £60,000 per annum
Location:  Northampton | Huntingdon | Milton Keynes | Corby | Bedford | Oakham | Peterborough | United Kingdom
Location flexibility:  3 office days / week
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Job Description

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000, 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 Storage Point Operations Lead to support the delivery of the Ruthamford Storage Point Programme.

You will act as the operational link between Production Planning, Operations, Water Quality, Modelling, Asset Management and Programme Delivery teams, coordinating activity to ensure vital storage point inspections, cleaning and refurbishment programmes are delivered successfully.

This is a highly visible role where you'll lead outage planning, operational risk management and programme coordination, ensuring resilience is maintained while major works are undertaken.

Key Responsibilities

  • Coordinate the removal from service and return to service of storage point assets across Ruthamford.
  • Develop and maintain delivery plans aligned to operational and programme priorities.
  • Lead the development and management of Major Impact Plans (MIPs).
  • Assess operational, production and resilience impacts associated with planned outages.
  • Work across multiple teams to identify risks, constraints and mitigation measures.
  • Coordinate operational readiness activities and stakeholder engagement.
  • Monitor programme performance and regulatory commitments.
  • Capture lessons learned and identify opportunities to improve delivery processes.
  • Ensure activities are delivered safely and in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.

What does it take to be a Storage Point Operations Lead?

  • HNC/HND qualification or equivalent operational experience.
  • Experience within water supply operations or a comparable operational environment.
  • Strong understanding of water supply systems, production, storage and distribution.
  • Experience coordinating complex operational activities across multiple stakeholders.
  • Ability to assess operational risks and impacts associated with outages and system change.
  • Strong planning, organisation and stakeholder management capability.
  • Experience using operational data to support decision-making.
  • A collaborative and proactive approach with strong communication skills.

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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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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