Hydraulics Optimization Specialist

5 days ago


Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom Anglian Water Full time
Asset Optimization Engineer - Water Recycling

Circa £44k depending on skills and experience + Car Allowance

Full time Permanent

Your role will involve travel across the region to our sites, including areas such as Colchester, Basildon, Braintree, Saffron Walden, and Witham.

We offer a wide range of benefits, including Private health care, Virtual GP service for you and your household, Generous pension scheme - we double-match your contributions, up to 6% giving you 18% combined contribution.

For a great career, just add water

Anglian Water is an innovative utility company always looking for ways to continue to make sure it is fit for the future. We are looking for a curious person with electrical/electronic engineering background who will work in a team with Water Recycling process optimisation engineers and engage with our field operational teams.

You will provide technical support, carry out site audits and investigations to identify and promote business cases and effective optimisation solutions for our Water Recycling assets and operations. You will use AW performance reports, telemetry monitoring systems, and work with our team of analysts.

You will also work with our optimisation delivery engineers and third-party contractors ensuring capital investment projects are scoped, designed, and successfully completed to meet the needs of the AW operational teams. You will then use available data to effectively monitor and validate projects' benefits.

Collaborating with the Water Recycling operational teams, you will be the main point of contact focusing on identifying and promoting Optimisation opportunities on Water Recycling Centres, Sludge Treatment Centres, as well as across Water Recycling Network (pumping stations, sewers, and rising mains) and providing effective solutions to reduce operational costs and business risks.

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

  • Company car allowance
  • Personal private health care
  • Virtual GP for your household
  • Bonus scheme
  • Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
  • 26 days annual leave rising with length of service
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Excellent family-friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for Maternity/Adoption leave

What does it take to be an Optimisation Engineer?

  • ONC/HNC in Electrical/Electronic engineering or equivalent
  • Categorised electrician 3 (or working towards if previously held)
  • Good all-round experience in control and instrumentation backed up by a solid knowledge of practical electrical principles
  • Excellent communication skills with the experience of building and managing productive, credible business relationships with colleagues and managers
  • Good understanding of IT systems and applications (experience of using telemetry systems, HMIs, Scada, PLCs as well as SAP would be advantageous)
  • Ability to identify issues quickly and develop effective solutions in dynamic environments.
  • Health and Safety management ideally qualified to IOSH level
  • Lean management or other relevant process experience or qualifications
  • Understanding of commercial aspects of business risk and tactical operations
  • Demonstrable experience of integrating capital schemes into operational sites
  • Understanding and experience of Water Recycling operational processes (e.g.: pump applications and instrumentation) would be advantageous
  • Full UK driving licence

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a difference. 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 are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.

What interests you most about working as an AW Asset Optimisation Engineer, and how do you see this role aligning with your career goals and values?



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