Job Description

£31,756 per annum - depending on skills and experience + company van + standby allowance

Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours a week

Location: Saffron Walden and surrounding areas

Dive into a world of opportunity!

Are you a hardworking, proactive and self-motivated individual?

If so, this could be the right position for you!

Water Recycling is at the heart of our operations. The key services that we are responsible for are delivered by our in-house, highly-skilled workforce. We collect and treat the water that customers have used, returning it to the environment via rivers and coastal outlets. Our network includes 76,000 kilometres of sewers which feed over 1,000 water recycling centres.

What will you be doing?

You will be one of our Water Recycling Services Works Technicians in Saffron Walden and surrounding areascovering a number of sites local to this region. You will visit our Water Recycling Centres to carry out routine maintenance to ensure the sites operate correctly. This is a "hands on job", working outside in all weathers maintaining, monitoring and adjusting treatment processes. The work is varied, at times challenging, and it is unlikely that any two days will be the same.

Some of the duties will include:

• Carry out scheduled activities as instructed via a scheduling App or direct from the OMC Technicians or from FLM or Optimiser (as appropriate)

• Liaise with OMC to reschedule work plan in order to address any critical compliance issues

• Ensure site servicing is carried out in order that process run as effectively and efficiently as possible, and that tasks are carried out in their correct sequence such that compliance is always maintained

• Ensure asset care activities (e.g., lubrication schedules) are carried out to required standards

• Implementation of agreed actions on Compliance Action Plans.

What does it take to be a Works Technician Process Controller?

• Educated to GCSE level, preferably in English and Mathematics

• Excellent communication skills

• Confidence and ability to deal with people at all levels

• Competency with IT systems

• Some experience of sewerage design and construction is desirable

• Strong administration abilities

• A willingness to be flexible and an ability to get on with internal and external customers at all levels is essential

• Strong sense of process and health and safety

• Ability to work quickly, using own initiative and be able to solve problems

• Full driving license

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.  

Why Anglian Water?

Here at Anglian Water, we are striving to do the right thing for our people, customers and our environment. Our culture involves collaborative, innovative and inspiring work putting people at the heart of our business, and we truly love what we do! We believe that equal opportunities mean inclusion, diversity and fair treatment for all.

Closing date 3rd June 2026

Interviews 12th June 2026

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