Groundwater Asset Project Manager in Southend-on-Sea

Salary – circa £45,000 depending on skills and experience

Location: Flexible around the Anglian Water region, with ability to travel to sites when required.

£450 per month car allowance

Personal private health care

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Double-matched pension

Working within a highly regulated industry, we provide a critical resource ensuring we can provide homes and businesses with a resilient and safe supply of running water. Essential to delivering a consistent service to our customers are our Water Resources & Drought team, who are looking for a new member to join their Groundwater Team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a specialist technical team, responsible for the maintenance and operability of over 450 boreholes that provide 50% of Anglian Water’s raw water supply. It's also a great opportunity to support our increased investment in groundwater maintenance teams within our region.

We offer flexible working, with the successful applicant required to travel to borehole sites across the Anglian Water region and would be happy to travel to one of the Water Resources & Drought key offices (Cambridge, Norwich, Peterborough, or Huntingdon) when required.

What will you be doing?

Working closely with the wider Groundwater Team, you will be responsible for managing all aspects on a range of technical borehole maintenance and groundwater projects, including project planning, working closely with the Water Supply Teams, helping to coordinate on-site activities, managing budgets, and project reporting. Projects will include borehole pump replacements, borehole rehabilitation and refurbishment, condition-based surveys, water quality and yield investigations and borehole performance testing, in addition to a wide range of other borehole and groundwater related operability issues. The role will involve working closely with a number of internal and external stakeholders, particularly the Anglian Water Groundwater Engineering Unit (GWEU), Supply Operational Teams and the Environment Agency. With time, the successful applicant would be expected to work towards developing a strong technical understanding of borehole construction and operation, and groundwater systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Work closely with our in house groundwater engineers and wider Groundwater Team to manage technical projects and wider programmes of work associated with the delivery of borehole maintenance and groundwater-focused projects.
• Track expenditure against project/programme budgets and provide monthly updates on project spend, forecasts and outputs, raising key delivery risks and driving efficiencies.
• Ensure all activities are fully compliant with Anglian Water H&S procedures, including CDM (2015) Regulations.
• Provide visible leadership on site and conduct regular active management site visits and audits to ensure full H&S compliance.
• Develop close working relationships and build trust with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects comply with all regulatory requirements, such as discharge consents/permits, abstraction licences and Regulation 31 (Materials in Contact).
• Ensure pollution risks and abstraction licence compliance are front of mind during all projects, contributing towards environmental performance targets.
• Safe and effective management of contractors in accordance with Anglian Water procedures.
• Ensure operational risks from projects are minimised by working closely with frontline operational teams and producing impact plans.
• Produce high quality technical reports to ensure project findings are thoroughly documented.
• Collaborate with the wider business and industry to actively seek out new opportunities for collaboration and innovation.
• Support with the definition of future digital needs for the groundwater maintenance programme and support with implementation of digital improvements to drive efficiency.
• As required, support with the response to groundwater and borehole operability issues across the Anglian Water region, for example, drought and summer demand.

What do you need to be successful?

• First degree in relevant subject area (e.g. science, engineering)
• Preferably have post graduate qualification in hydrogeology or related subject
• Experience managing projects
• A delivery-focused mindset with strong organisational skills and a can-do attitude.
• An interest in (or willingness to learn about) groundwater systems and how boreholes are constructed and operated
• Awareness of regulatory environment.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• UK driving licence.

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

• Personal private health care including physiotherapy
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• £450 per month car allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
• Life Assurance at 8 times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5 times your salary
• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave policies.

Inclusion at Anglian Water: We welcome everyone! As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all qualified applicants, no matter their gender identity, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We hire and nurture based on merit and a shared passion for making positive impacts. Our commitment is to foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong & can use every drop of their potential.

Closing date: 5th January 2026

Interviews week commencing: 19th January 2026