Maintenance Standards and Governance Lead in Cambridge

Salary: Circa £55,000, depending on skills and experience Full-time, with flexibility for part-time. 37 hours per week/permanent Location: Flexible across the region - Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office weekly Private health care Double-matched pension Life assurance at 8 times salary

Shape the engineering standards behind safe, reliable performance At Anglian Water, the reliability of our Bioresources operations depends on robust engineering standards, effective maintenance strategies and people with the right technical capabilities.

We are looking for an Engineering Standards & Governance Lead to provide engineering leadership across the maintenance standards, assurance and competency arrangements supporting our Bioresources assets. You will establish a consistent and auditable engineering framework covering CHP, gas, SRP, sludge treatment and associated critical infrastructure.

Working alongside engineers, technicians, operational teams and specialist partners, you will ensure our maintenance activities are safe, risk-based, technically robust and aligned with regulatory, process safety and operational requirements. This is an influential opportunity for an experienced engineering, maintenance or asset-management professional who can combine technical credibility with strong governance, strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement.

What you’ll be doing

You will take ownership of the engineering maintenance standards that define how our critical Bioresources assets are maintained, assured and improved. Using your engineering knowledge and judgement, you will translate technical requirements into practical standards, maintenance procedures and ways of working that can be applied consistently across our operations.

Key responsibilities

• Own and develop engineering maintenance standards for Bioresources assets, including CHP, gas, SRP and sludge treatment.
• Apply engineering judgement and risk-based thinking to ensure standards are practical, technically robust and fit for purpose.
• Ensure maintenance standards meet OEM, statutory, regulatory and process safety requirements.
• Work with engineers, technical specialists and suppliers to embed standards into maintenance plans, procedures and asset-care activities.
• Provide technical governance and assurance, identifying engineering risks, variances and opportunities for improvement.
• Define and maintain engineering competency and authorisation requirements, ensuring work is undertaken by appropriately skilled people.
• Build resilience across specialist engineering skills, critical assets and out-of-hours maintenance capability.
• Help shape future engineering capability through new technology, digital and predictive maintenance, and continuous improvement.

What you’ll bring

• Engineering, maintenance or asset management experience within an industrial, utilities or process environment.
• Comfortable working across detailed engineering requirements and wider technical governance, ensuring that standards are not only well designed but practical, understood and consistently applied.
• Experience developing or governing engineering maintenance standards, strategies and technical documentation.
• Strong understanding of asset reliability, engineering risk, process safety and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to interpret technical and OEM requirements and translate them into clear, practical engineering standards.
• Experience of technical assurance, competency management and risk-based decision-making.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide technical challenge and drive consistent engineering standards.

Benefits

• Private health care
• Double-matched pension
• Life assurance at 8 times salary
• Personal private health care
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• Double-matched pension (maximum 7% employee/14% employer contribution)
• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• 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 to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Diversity and inclusion

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. 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. 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.

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Closing date

Closing date: Tuesday 13th October

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