Instrument Technician in Barnsley

Circa £35,000 - £38,000 dependent on skills, experience and qualifications

Permanent – 37 hours per week

Location – Huddersfield / Barnsley

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team! Alpheus (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anglian Water Group), specialise in providing innovative water and wastewater asset management services tailored for commercial and industrial clients. We are renowned for our advanced, commercially-focused solutions and our unwavering commitment to excellence.

Reporting to the Regional Operations Manager, you are responsible for the successful completion of routine, reactive remedial work on the sites we operate on, working in a safe efficient manner at all times. In this exciting role as the regional MRA (Mining Remediation Authority) Instrument Technician, you are responsible for ensuring all instruments are fully operational and calibrated to industry standards. Ensuring routine maintenance, and troubleshooting are conducted to a high standard which in turn ensures reliability, efficiency, and safety are optimised.

This role will participate in our ‘out of hours’ emergency standby rota, attending call outs in a timely manner and proactively carrying out repairs to ensure compliance is maintained.

• Perform preventative and emergency maintenance on instrumentation systems and control valves to minimise downtime
• Carry out daily routine maintenance work on various treatment facilities, including general cleaning, sampling, and maintenance tasks
• Install, set up, and test new instrumentation components during project work or facility upgrades
• Assist the Regional Operations Manager in planning daily routes in an efficient/productive manner
• Provide excellent data and verbal feedback to Head Office in a variety of media
• Maintain an excellent standard of Health and Safety ensuring all issues, concerns and incidents are reported correctly, in a timely manner
• Adhere to all Alpheus/Client’s procedures, policies, work instructions and requirements
• Ensure you are in possession of, and wearing appropriate PPE and safety equipment when required and reporting any deficiencies immediately
• Responsible for site safety and site tidiness to the highest standards

• Personal private health care.
• 25 days annual leave.
• Life Cover at 8x your salary.
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary.
• Flexible working.
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%.
• Bonus scheme.
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Experience of a broad range of water and wastewater treatment technologies

Strong understanding of engineering theory, industrial control systems and electronics

Skilled in using calibration equipment and diagnostic tools

Excellent Health and Safety knowledge and experience

Good knowledge of key aspects of environmental legislation

Excellent communication skills with a professional manner when dealing with clients

Excellent technical/operational and process knowledge

Logical, methodical and well organised

Excellent organisational skills with good attention to detail

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 31st March 2026 Interviews: as soon as possible

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 reach out to our team at resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk

To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.

If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our.

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.