At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead process safety risk management and support incident investigations across water supply operations.
- Company: Anglian Water focuses on safeguarding communities through effective process safety management.
- Benefits: Enjoy private health care, a double-matched pension, and 26 days annual leave.
- Other info: This role is predominantly site-based with occasional home working.
- Why this job: Influence decision-making and contribute to the safe delivery of essential services.
- Qualifications: Experience in process safety or risk management, particularly with toxic gases like chlorine.
The predicted salary is between 47000 - 47000 £ per year.
Salary: Circa £47,000, depending on skills and experience. Full-time, with flexibility for part-time. 37 hours per week/permanent.
Base Location: Flexible across the Anglian Water region, with requirement to travel to sites across the region. This role is predominantly site based, with occasional home working.
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Process Safety Engineer to help safeguard our people, assets, and communities by leading the management of process safety risks across our water supply operations. In this critical role, you will provide expert technical guidance to ensure that hazards are effectively identified, assessed, and controlled across our treatment and distribution assets. Working closely with operational, process safety, and asset management teams, you'll embed a strong process safety culture, support continuous improvement, and ensure compliance with regulatory and company standards. You will play a key part in reducing risk, improving asset resilience, and learning from incidents to strengthen future performance. This is an opportunity to influence decision‑making, shape best practice, and contribute to the safe and reliable delivery of essential services.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support process safety risk management across water supply operations.
- Provide expertise in hazard identification, risk assessment, control measures and working knowledge of barrier‑based risk analysis and its application.
- Support incident investigations, ensuring lessons are learned and embedded.
- Drive continuous improvement in process safety systems and performance.
- Deliver assurance and compliance with regulatory and internal standards.
- Collaborate across teams to promote a positive and proactive safety culture.
About You
- Background in process safety, engineering, or risk management or a history of working with toxic gases and chemicals, such as chlorine and ozone.
- Experience in high‑hazard industries.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
- Passion for improving process safety, resilience, and operational excellence.
As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:
- 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.
Inclusion at Anglian Water: 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.
Closing date: Sunday 5th July.
Process Safety Engineer in Milton Keynes employer: Anglian Water
Anglian Water offers a competitive salary of circa £47,000 and excellent family-friendly policies. The company values diversity and inclusion, ensuring all employees feel they belong while working across the Anglian Water region.
