Principal Drinking Water Scientist
Principal Drinking Water Scientist
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£ 72000 - 82000
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Job Description
Salary: 72000 - 82000 per annum dependent on skills and experience
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
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 a technical team that ensures 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.
Following our business reshape the Scientific Departments at Anglian Water have combined to create a centre of Scientific Excellence. This exciting time brings our laboratory function strategic science and operational scientists together. You will guide the team through this change focusing resources on value-adding 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.
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.
In this role you will:
- Enable the team to effectively lead investigations into water quality incidents providing root cause analysis and implementing learning to ensure future mitigation
- Drive the safety of the team forwards putting safety at the heart of what we do
- Drive proactive intervention strategies across the team enabling team members to focus on value-add activities driven by data
- Develop a team that provides scientific input across Capital Delivery Procurement and Innovation teams
- Collaborate and positively challenge to deliver desired business outcomes and meet customer demands now and in the future
- Build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders including the DWI and public health agencies
- Own and audit technical procedures to ensure regulatory alignment
- Champion training development and competency across scientific and operational teams
Were looking for someone with:
- Inspirational leadership and team development experience
- Strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement
- Excellent communication and reporting
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools (Excel PowerBI Teams)
- Customer-focused mindset and adaptability
- Degree in a scientific or environmental discipline
- A background in operational and environmental science
- Understanding of health safety and wellbeing systems
As a valued employee youll be entitled to:
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays (with flexibility for religious holidays)
- Personal private health care
- Life cover 8x annual salary
- Competitive pension scheme we double-match your contributions up to 6%
- Annual bonus scheme and lifestyle benefits
Inclusion at Anglian Water
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
Youll be joining a team where leadership collaboration and service excellence are at the heart of everything we do. Were passionate about developing our people and helping them thrive. If youre looking for a role where your leadership can make a real impacton our teams and every new joinerthis could be your next move.
Closing date: 3 August 2025
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
