System Planner

Salary: £45,000 depending on skills and experience

Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week (With options for part-time)

Location: Flexible across the Anglian Water Region

Make every drop of your potential count…join our Water Asset Delivery Planning Team.

Our AMP 8 business plan will deliver £9 billion of essential investment in the east of England. It was created in consultation with our customers, and it balances ambition and affordability. It will create over 7,000 jobs and meet the unique challenges facing our fast growing and climate stressed region, helping the East of England to thrive and prosper.

To turn this plan into action, this role is vital within our Asset Delivery Planning team to make the investments and improvements outlined in the business plan happen by further developing them with stakeholders and construction delivery partners.

What you will be doing?

As a System Planner, within the Water Asset Delivery Planning team, your key purpose will be to build relationships with stakeholders by identifying current and future risks, and investment opportunities. You will provide effective resolutions, by using information from data systems, site visits and stakeholder workshops. You will also create Dynamic System Plans which help identify future investments to mitigate these risks, understand business and regulatory requirements to ensure investments are providing optimum benefit.

Key tasks include:

• Creating and maintaining ‘Dynamic System Plans’, as a system of physical assets, from ‘source to tap’.
• Dynamic System Plans encompass all water assets and activities from abstraction, treatment, distribution and supply through to the customer’s tap.
• Strategically bring together key stakeholders and capture data from corporate systems and site visits to provide risk and cost information to support investment planning process.
• Leading workshops with various stakeholders to understand current and future risks and identifying how these might be resolved.
• Generate initial root cause statements, evaluation of risks and creation of solutions to produce investments from the system plan for prioritisation.
• Working with key stakeholders and business experts to support regulatory requirements to produce a Water Resource Management Plan (WRMP) and the PR29 Business Plan.
• Working with safety in mind for yourself, your stakeholders and the assets under your care.

What does it take to be a System Planner?

• Experience using Excel, PowerBi and ideally investment costing programmes, such as Copperleaf C55.
• You must be a pro-active self-starter able to work within guidelines.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Advanced data reporting skills.
• Knowledge of the Water industry would be desirable but not essential.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• An appreciation of safe operation and design.

We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Generous double match pension – contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• 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 and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

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.

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: 26/08/2026

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.