Health and Safety Lead

Overview

Circa £70,000 (depending on skills and experience) + Car Allowance. Full time / Permanent / 37 hours per week, with flexibility for part-time. Location: Flexible — based at one of our sites in Lincoln, Grantham, Huntingdon, Peterborough or Cambridge. Anglian Water embraces a flexible working approach. This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, with an average of 3-4 days per week onsite across the Anglian Water region.

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team! As we prepare to embark on our biggest ever capital and operational maintenance programmes in AMP8, Anglian Water is focused on ensuring health and safety remains at the heart of everything we do. With population growth of around 700,000 expected across our region and increasing demand from businesses, we play a vital role in enabling sustainable growth — and we’re proud of the impact we make every day.

To support this next chapter, we are expanding our Health and Safety Team and are seeking an experienced Health & Safety Lead to join us.

Role

The IOS Safety Lead will be responsible for the management and leadership of safety professionals who provide the technical safety and environmental support to construction activity carried out by the 3 IOS Framework Partners. The role will ensure that IOS has the appropriate health and safety strategies and plans in place to achieve their business plans and drive a proactive safety culture in line with Safer Every Day. The role is responsible for making tangible and realistic recommendations to improve health and safety performance in IOS, in line with the latest legal guidance. The role reports into Capital Delivery Safety Business Partner but also works as a member of the IOS Management Team, advising Directors and Senior Managers on all aspects of health, safety wellbeing and environment. This is a unique leadership role with influence across Alliance Directors, senior managers, front-line leaders, and partner contractors — helping shape strategy, ensuring compliance, and advancing Anglian Water's vision for safety excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strong client-side support on Health and Safety in a construction function.
• The provision of insight and making recommendations for mitigation from safety data.
• Carry out thorough investigations for all accidents that may occur in the IOS area of the business, ensuring that lessons learned are shared within the department but also wider within AWS.
• Support IOS teams to develop and agree health and safety targets and outcome measures and identify the long-term strategy in line with Safer Every Day.
• Implement an assurance process to demonstrate compliance to the statutory Health and Safety requirements relevant to all IOS activity and provide information for continuous improvement.
• Lead on the identification of any improvements required to Health and Safety policies and procedures, working with the Central Safety Team to have these incorporated into the AW Safety Management System.
• Bring insights and ideas to challenge the thinking about how the partners within IOS can influence areas with health and safety shortcomings but also highlight and share areas of best practice.
• Ensure that your team of Health and Safety Advisors carry out active management, safety audits and inspections in line with set targets, ensuring that follow up actions are correctly recorded and acted upon in a timely manner.
• Provide visible leadership, and targeted individual coaching and development, to your team of Safety Advisors, building their capability, skills and experience, so they can deliver excellent standards of health and safety.
• Develop and implement an environmental management strategy for IOS that aligns with AWS sustainability objectives and legal requirements.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant environmental legislation, standards, and company policies across IOS activities.
• Monitor, analyse, and report on environmental performance metrics, including waste management, emissions, and resource efficiency.
• Identify and mitigate environmental risks associated with IOS construction and operational activities.

Role Requirements

• Experience in a senior Health & Safety role.
• Degree or Diploma in Health & Safety.
• Chartered Member of IOSH or actively working toward chartership.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence Directors and senior managers.
• Experience working with partner organisations and differing safety management systems.
• Evidence of driving continuous improvement in safety culture and performance.
• Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, and interpersonal.
• Proactive, analytical mindset with the ability to challenge constructively.
• Outstanding planning and organisational capabilities.
• A full UK Driving Licence.
• Applicants must live within the Anglian Water region to meet travel demands.

Benefits

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

• Personal private health care.
• 26 days annual leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays (with flexible holiday swap options for religious observance).
• Life cover at 8× salary.
• Personal accident cover up to 5× salary.
• Flexible working.
• Competitive pension scheme — Anglian Water double matches contributions up to 6%.
• Bonus scheme.
• Flexible benefits to support wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Don’t meet every requirement? Please still apply! We value diversity of background, experience, and perspective. New ways of thinking help us transform how we work and better represent the customers and communities we serve. Even if this exact role isn’t the right fit, your application could open doors to other opportunities across the organisation.

Closing date: 09/02/2026