Water Process Scientist, Ipswich

Water Process Scientist
Circa £41,400 dependent on skills and experience
Fixed Term Contract – 10 months
Ipswich / Colchester / Suffolk

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!

The exciting role will be to ensure the optimum quality of water is produced from our water treatment works and risks to this are mitigated. Focusing on quality source to source, through a mixture of onsite work and using data, you will continually be looking at getting the optimum quality of wholesome water out for our customers.

Working alongside Operational colleagues, you will provide scientific understanding and effectively challenge our processes to safely produce wholesome water. During reactive events, you will use your scientific understanding and appreciation of actions to successfully and safely navigate incidents.

Key responsibilities

• Regular review of water quality standards across the area to support excellent water quality from treatment works

• Proactive interventions will include onsite interaction where early warning process performance deteriorations occur, and regular data interrogation to identify process performance deteriorations

• Identify and investigate water quality risks from source to tap ensuring appropriate mitigation is in place including abstraction management

• Deliver and continually improve water quality risk assessments Undertake comprehensive onsite water quality investigations following proactive or preventative triggers and ensure water quality action plans are prepared as required

• Deliver the company’s Drinking Water Safety Planning approach

• Be the key point of contact for local operations teams for water quality risk assessment

• Lead the development of short- and medium-term strategies to reduce risks to water quality

• Be part of an out of hours standby process support for the business across the region

• Provide scientific advice on Regulation 31

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 7%

• Private healthcare for your peace of mind

• An annual bonus scheme

• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community

• 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays

• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)

• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle

• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental

• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks

• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• Educated to degree or postgraduate level in a relevant scientific subject or equivalent qualification or experience

• Able to critically evaluate information to take tactical action

• Excellent data interpretation skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills to build rapport with operational colleagues

• Able to influence those around you in making positive decisions to protect wholesomeness of our water

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

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: 21st May 2026

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