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Anglian Water Services • United Kingdom

Support Services Technician

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £27,000 per annum
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Job Description

Location: Huntingdon | Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £27,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Closing Date: 12th June 2025

This role requires you to work onsite at the Central Laboratory in Huntingdon 5 day per week.

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Support Services Administrator to join the Central Laboratory team on a permanent basis.

In this role, the main responsibility will be dealing with the water samples that have been taken and require outsourcing for testing – organising with the 3rd parties to organise this ensuring all data is captured and follow the process through.

What you’ll be doing:

- Deal with internal and external queries coming in through the Laboratory mailbox

-Dealing with water samples that require outsourcing and liaising with the 3rd parties to organise

-Registration and recording water sample information onto the lab system

-Packing the water samples and organising the couriers to deliver them

-Data entry of results onto the LIMS system

What does it take to be successful?

- Strong Administration experience

- IT literate with proven experience of Microsoft office applications

- Ability to communicate with people at all levels

- Have a very positive and personable style

- Highly organised, with an eye for detail

- Ability to prioritise effectively

- Confident telephone manner

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

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

-Personal private health care

-Annual bonus scheme

-25 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

-Life Cover at 8x your salary

-Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

-Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

-Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme

-Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks

-Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.

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. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

Closing date: 12th June 2025

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Company benefits

Eye Care Support – Free eye tests for visual display unit (VDU) users, along with free/discounts on glasses
Health insurance – Private Healthcare scheme including cover for pre-existing conditions
Mental health platform access
Health assessment
Family health insurance – Discounted family health insurance. Available to select annually.
Private GP service – 24/7, unlimited remote GP appointments for you and your household
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
Compassionate leave
Bank holiday swaps
Religious celebration leave
Time off in-lieu
25-30 days annual leave + bank holidays
Buy or sell annual leave – 5 days (pro rata'd if part time)
Optional unpaid leave
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay
Shared parental leave – 26 weeks full pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay
Pregnancy loss leave
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay
Fertility treatment leave
Neo-natal leave
Bike parking – Secure bike parks at main offices
Faith rooms
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrifice
Life insurance – 8 times your basic annual salary
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – 2 schemes available
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
Enhanced pension match/contribution – Double the contribution you make up to 6% - you pay in 6%, we pay in 12%
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Mentoring
Learning platform
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Teambuilding days
Lunch and learns
Professional subscriptions
Meditation space
Interest free loans
Cinema discounts
Theme park discounts
Loyalty programme – Awards for long service, along with increase in annual leave allowance
Hackathons
In house training
Further education support
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Enhanced sick pay
Gym membership – Discounted gym membership
Employee assistance programme
Sabbaticals
Company car

Working at Anglian Water Services

Company employees

6500

Gender diversity (male:female:non-binary)

66:33:1

Currently Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

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