Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

Circa £46,000 (Depending on Skills & Experience)

Hybrid - Base Location Flexible - Predominantly covering Essex Sites

Permanent / Full Time / 37 hours per week (with opportunities for flexible working)

Make every drop count – join us in shaping essential infrastructure

Our Central Services Capital Projects team delivers a diverse range of schemes that keep water and wastewater services running safely and reliably across the Anglian Water region. We’re looking for a committed Project Engineer to help develop, plan and deliver our capital programme, ensuring our sites, assets and customers benefit from high-quality engineering solutions.

This is a great opportunity to make a difference in a role where no two days are the same, working with operational teams, contractors and colleagues to bring projects to life.

• Responsible for enabling activities to facilitate the delivery of planned/emergent capital projects
• Develop solutions in line with corporate governance and delivery route goals
• Ensure solutions are Water and/or Wastewater quality compliant
• Completion of Root Cause Analysis
• Complete optioneering of solutions
• Comply with the corporate Risk and Value process
• Ensure standard products and other technical standards (e.g. minimum asset standards) are adhered to
• Complete and comply with all operational site H&S requirements to ensure safe working practices
• Production and support completion of CDM Documentation

• Appropriate engineering qualification or membership of professional body or equivalent experience
• Proven technical experience within the relevant environment (Water or Wastewater)
• Knowledge of Health & Safety (H&S), and Construction Design & Management (CDM) regulations
• Experience managing a capital budget
• Experience of project planning, delivery and site supervision
• Root cause analysis to optionee suitable solutions
• Good IT literacy plus it would be desirable to have experience of M2i, SAP and Power Bi

• Car allowance
• Full Personal private health care
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
• Flexible working
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Closing Date: 15th February 2026