Salary: Circa £85,000 per annum dependent on skills and experience
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Across the Anglian Water Region, covering areas such as Ipswich, Norwich, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Grantham, Lincoln
Are you ready to lead scientific excellence in drinking water quality and make a real impact on public health and environmental compliance for our customers?
We are looking for a Principal Drinking Water Scientist to lead our technical Drinking Water Process and Network Science team. Your team will ensure the safety and quality of our drinking water, drives innovation, and enables our operational colleagues to deliver safe, wholesome water to our customers. This is a pivotal leadership role within our Quality, Environment and Assurance business unit, reporting directly to the Head of Science.
At Anglian Water our Scientific Department are combined to create a centre of Scientific Excellence. Where our operational scientists, laboratory function and strategic science come together. This role provides a fantastic opportunity to exploit the Scientific knowledge within our Department, as you focus your team on value-adding interventions and risk mitigation. Collaboration with the Science Leadership team and wider leadership teams, as well as external engagement, will be essential to ensure learning and actions benefit both our customers and the business. Whilst, your close working relationship with our Operational colleagues will ensure we embed interventions across our Operations.
You will lead the team in maintaining scientific rigor, assurance, and innovation to provide wholesome water to our customers 24/7 efficiently. The development, engagement, safety, and well-being of your team are crucial to making Science a fantastic place to work and progress. This role will require significant travel leading a field team based across the Anglian Water region.
We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
We’re looking for someone with:
At Anglian Water, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone feels they belong. We proudly hold the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, are a Disability Confident employer, and champion initiatives to support diversity, equity and inclusion.
Why join us?
You’ll be joining a team where leadership, collaboration, and service excellence are at the heart of everything we do. We’re passionate about developing our people and helping them thrive. If you're looking for a role where your leadership can make a real impact—on our teams and every new joiner—this could be your next move.
Telephone interviews may be requested: 5th and 6th November.
Interviews will be held 9th and 10th November
Anglian Water supply water and water recycling services to more than six million domestic and business customers in the east of England and Hartlepool. Our services are at the heart of every single family and community in our region. We clean water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out.
We’re the largest water and water recycling company in England and Wales by geographic area. We’re also one of the driest regions in the country, with just 600 millimetres of rain each year, on average a third less than the rest of England. In fact some areas have a lower annual rainfall than Jerusalem. That’s why it’s vital that we look after the water that we’ve got.
