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Anglian Water Services • Huntingdon | Peterborough | United Kingdom

Technical Assistant

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £35,000 per annum
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Job Description

Salary: Circa £35,000 depending on experience

Location: Flexible across the Anglian Water Region with regular travel to offices in Huntingdon and peterborough
Working Pattern: Hybrid working – 2–3 days per week in the office
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent (With opportunities for part-time)

Our services are at the heart of every single family and community in our region. Our Water Supply team, produce world-class drinking water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out, every single day. We 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.

As a Technical Assistant, you’ll provide high‑level executive, administrative and technical support to the Water Supply Leadership Team. Reporting to the Water Supply Director, you’ll play a vital role in enable the Senior Leadership Team by managing complex diaries, communications and meetings, and coordinating technical documentation and governance activity. Operating with professionalism, discretion and confidence, you’ll work closely with senior leaders, operational teams and stakeholders across the business in a fast‑paced leadership environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and ensure compliance with Anglian Water Health, Safety and Wellbeing principles, driving a culture of continuous improvement

• Provide proactive, professional support to senior leaders, acting as a key point of contact internally and externally
• Manage complex diaries, correspondence and inboxes, prioritising competing demands and drafting responses where appropriate
• Organise meetings, workshops, site visits and board‑level sessions, including agendas, papers, logistics and minute taking
• Prepare, format and quality‑check reports, presentations, dashboards and technical documentation
• Maintain accurate action logs, document control and structured filing systems
• Support governance, compliance and audit readiness across the directorate
• Build strong working relationships with leadership teams, operational managers and partners

• Communicate clearly and consistently across teams, enabling effective collaboration and supporting a high-performing team environment
• Coordinate travel, accommodation and events in line with company processes

Requirements

• Proven advanced administrative and organisational experience
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Experience of minute taking and supporting formal governance meetings

• Experience supporting senior leaders within a complex or technical organisation would be beneficial

• Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities
• Excellent communication, time‑management and attention‑to‑detail skills
• Ability to work with discretion, integrity and professional judgement

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 7%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

Why Anglian Water?
At Anglian Water, we’re committed to delivering sustainable water services and investing in our people. You’ll be part of a forward-thinking organisation that values innovation, integrity, and continuous improvement.

Inclusion at Anglian Water
As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing Date: 29/05/2026
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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
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

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