Lead Maintenance Engineer (Gas) Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Posted 24 hours ago

Lead Maintenance Engineer (Gas) Circa £60,000 depending on skills and experience + company vehicle. Standby Rota with occasional overnight stays. Permanent, Full time, 37 hours a week with flexibility for part time. Can be based anywhere in the Anglian Water Region.

For a greater career just add water! Water Recyclingis at the heart of ouroperations.The key services that we are responsible for aredelivered by ourin‑house, highly skilled workforce. We collect and treat the water that customers have used, returning it to the environment via rivers and coastal outlets. Our network includes 76,000 kilometres of sewers which feed over 1,000 water recycling centres. Would you like to be part of a team who responsible for the safe and sustainable operation and maintenance of our water recyclingassets?

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Life cover- 8 x annual salary paid to dependents
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service as well as bank holidays with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• Flexible working dependent on your role
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7% (21% total pension)
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

What will you be doing?

As the Lead Engineer for Gas, you will be delivering both Planned Preventative Maintenance and supporting the Reactive Maintenance for our Gas assets across the Anglian Water region. The role will involve responsibility to plan, organise and deliver the planned maintenance schedule across the region; often whilst managing contractors. As the Lead Engineer you will be expected to support the Engineers in their day-to-day work, planning and arranging workloads as required by the business need – this work involves projects across the region; including, but not limited to, optimisation, installation, and capital intervention.

Duties will include:

• Organising and leading PPM work.
• Providing both technical and specialist support to the team’s Engineers and local boiler operators.
• Helping enhance the performance of the Gas assets.
• Managing contractors.
• Supporting the Gas Manager (including standing in for meetings and planning schedules).
• Ensuring all relevant Health and Safety policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Assisting with the reduction of operating costs.
• Ensuring all PPM activities are completed and recorded.

What does it take to be a Lead Engineer (Gas)?

• A minimum an NVQ Level 3 or HNC ideally in Electrical bias but can be mechanical (Essential)
• Formal gas qualifications are required (GasSafe / I-Gas). (Essential)
• CompEx qualified would be advantageous.
• Experience of planned preventative maintenance.
• Operational and maintenance experience in Gas assets.
• Knowledge of Advanced Digestion would be advantageous.
• Supervisory / management experience or recognised qualification.
• Coaching and mentoring skills.
• Proven experience with fault finding and problem solving.
• Strong awareness of Health and Safety practices.
• Strong communication skills.
• Competent user of IT.
• Flexible approach to work- with the potential for out of hours management standby.
• Full driving licence is essential for this role.

Why Anglian Water?

Here at Anglian Water, we are striving to do the right thing for our people, customers and our environment. Our culture involves collaborative, innovative and inspiring work putting people at the heart of our business, and we truly love what we do! We believe that equal opportunities mean inclusion, diversity and fair treatment for all.

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.

Full driving licence is essential for this role. 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.

Closing date: 06/09/26 #loveeverydrop