Salary and Details Salary: Circa £48,880 depending on skills and experience + overtime Explicit progression opportunities to earn up to £62,400 Basic with further training and experience Company Van, all PPE, tools, and fuel card provided Permanent: Full Time, 37 hours per week with flexibility for part timeX2 Positions, Covering areas that include but not limited to; Peterborough, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Lincolnshire, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester
What you will be doing This is a fantastic opportunity to join a newly created Proactive Screens Team, helping shape the future of inlet screen maintenance across Anglian Water. Reporting directly to the Proactive Screens Manager, you’ll play a key role in improving the reliability, safety and performance of critical Water Recycling assets. Working across treatment works and pumping stations, you’ll lead by example, provide technical expertise and support the development of technicians within the team. This role offers the opportunity to work on specialist mechanical equipment, influence maintenance standards and help establish a new proactive approach to asset reliability across the region. You will also be responsible for planning and coordinating maintenance activities, proactively managing workloads and helping to control maintenance backlogs across the asset base. Working closely with suppliers, manufacturers and specialist contractors, you’ll support the development of spares strategies, improve parts availability and build strong working relationships that help drive reliability, efficiency and continuous improvement across the service.
Key tasks Develop, encourage and foster positive and safe working practices and work in accordance with the Company’s safety rules at all times
Manage available resource to ensure all maintenance work is delivered within agreed level of service.



Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure all actions are achieved on service completion
Drive continuous improvement of process and service through implementation of new ideas/equipment
Provide expert support to monitor and coach field resources in techniques/equipment used for the service and maintenance of treatment processes and asset
What does it take to be a Senior Operations Technician? Full driving licence
Ideally a solid Mechanical/Electrical/Engineering background, possessing the necessary NVQ/C&G; Level 3 qualifications in that field (Essential)
Demonstrate experience and awareness of Health and Safety within an operational environment
Ability to adapt communication style (both written and verbal) to suit a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
Demonstrate customer service skills and ability to deal with customers in an empathetic and professional manner
Knowledge or understanding of inlet screens and a basic understanding of water recycling processes would be beneficial
Experience with Coaching and mentoring team members
In this role you must be able to work within a confined space, and at height without restrictions
Due to harness weight limits, your maximum weight cannot be in excess of 113 kilograms, and you will be expected to complete relevant occupational health checks including Hand-arm Vibration (HAV)
Benefits 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
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 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.
We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers.
We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.
We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process.
If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.
If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [email protected]
Closing date Closing date: 20/09/26

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📌 Senior Operations Technician - Screens (Ontario)
🏢 Anglian Water Group
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