
Senior Storage Point Scientist
Circa£55,543 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time working
Huntingdon / Peterborough / Lincoln / Ipswich / Norwich Colchester
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We are recruiting for a Senior Storage Point Scientist to join our Quality, Environment and Assurance team! You will lead and developa team of Storage Point Scientists to ensure that theoptimumquality water is provided to our customers from storage points across the region. You willprovidesenior/technical expert scientific advice to the business and to your team, being the technical expert within your team.With line management responsibilities you will mentor and develop the capabilities,confidenceand skills within your team.
You will use yourexpertisetoidentifyand mitigate risksahead oftime anddevelop effective solutions in mitigating risks. You will continuallyseekto understand new ways of working and using different/new technologyto support the continuous improvement of our storage point risk profile and ability to build robust risk mitigation solutions.
Workingpredominantly onsite,you will manage projects to provide effective and optimised storage point operation to mitigate business risk, whilstmaintainingwholesome water to our customers.Yourunderstanding and asset experience, will be used to enable capital schemes to get the best out of the storage points.
You’lleffectively manage your time, balancing time on site and in the office to provide the outcomes needed for the business.You’llwork from site with colleagues 4 days per week. You will be part of a Regional out of hours standby support for the business.
Key responsibilities
Enable operations and scientists alike to develop and challenge the operation of storage points to provide storage of wholesome and safe water optimally
Enable proactive interventions on site to support future risk mitigation to customers
Develop and ensure delivery of water quality-related source to source optimisation strategies, balancing risks to water quality with regulatory requirements and cost and carbon implications
Ensure that a consistent approach is takenwith regard towater quality risk information and its use within the capital delivery governance process, positively challenging to provide outcomes enable progress and increased capital benefit
Be a critical stakeholder in the promotion of investment needs, highlighting all emerging water quality risks to capital stakeholders
You will continuallyseekto understand new ways of working and using different/new technologyto support the continuous improvement of our process risk profile and ability to build robust risk mitigation solutions
Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety (H&S), ensuring consistent H&S standards are maintained
Provide out of hours Regional scientific standby cover, being able toprovidescientific advice on any asset or area of the company
We invest in our people - as a valued employee,you’llbe 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
26days 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.
What does it take to be successful?
Educated to a degree levelin relevant scientific subject or equivalent
Substantial experience of water processes or asset science
Team leadership and management skills –evidencedthroughpreviousexperience
Able to critically evaluate information to take tactical or strategic action
Able to make decisions with limited information and put in place risk mitigation strategies
Interpersonal skills to build rapport with operational colleagues, whilst able to positively challenge and communication actions/challengerequiredeffectively
Able to mentor and influence those around you
Critical thinker looking at information provided and able to move forwards to develop a solution
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which meanswe’llconsider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disabilitystatusor any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, andwe’recommitted to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
Closing date:11thJune 2026
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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.