Process Safety Engineer

Job Title: Process Safety Engineer

Salary:
Circa £47,000, depending on skills and experience

Full-time, with flexibility for part-time.

Hours: 37 hours per week/permanent

Base

Location:

Flexible across the Anglian Water region, with requirement to travel to sites across the region

Location: 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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