About the role

  • Production Planning Engineer responsible for creating daily and weekly production plans for reliable water delivery at Anglian Water. Collaborating with teams to ensure operational efficiency and sustainability.

Responsibilities

  • Produce accurate and actionable production plans across daily, weekly and monthly timescales
  • Work closely with long-term planners to align short- and long‑term operational needs
  • Collaborate with operational teams to communicate plans and respond to changes
  • Use production planning tools and data to identify issues, trends and improvement opportunities
  • Investigate deviations from the plan and support root cause analysis and mitigation
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of planning tools, processes and data quality
  • Support incident response by providing insight and guidance from production plans
  • Consider maintenance and planned works to minimise operational impact
  • Build strong stakeholder relationships across Water Services, Tactical Operations and wider teams

Requirements

  • Previous experience in an operational role with decision‑making responsibilities
  • Strong understanding of water treatment and distribution processes
  • Working knowledge of hydraulic principles
  • Confident user of complex software and modelling tools
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to negotiate, influence and collaborate effectively as part of a team
  • Relevant professional qualification (desirable)

Benefits

  • Personal private health care
  • 26 days leave (rising with service) + Bank Holidays, with flexibility for religious holidays
  • Life Cover at 8x your salary
  • Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
  • Flexible working options
  • Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
  • Bonus scheme
  • Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

Job title

Production Planning Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£45,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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