Technical Assurance Manager

Salary:
Circa £55,000, depending on skills and experience

Full-time, with flexibility for part-time.
37 hours per week/permanent

Location:

Peterborough and London - Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office per week Private health care Double-matched pension

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Life assurance at 8 times salary

Make a Lasting Impact on Water for Generations At Anglian Water, we're passionate about securing a sustainable future for our region. Our New Reservoirs Programme is the most ambitious and complex infrastructure project we've ever undertaken, delivering two multi-billion-pound raw water reservoirs in the Fens and in Lincolnshire. These projects will safeguard water supplies for millions, support thriving communities, and protect our precious environment.

About the role

We're looking for a Technical Assurance Manager who shares our drive to do the right thing, every day. You will ensure that the Reservoirs programme adopts a systematic approach to managing technical risks and that all technical requirements are met throughout a project's lifecycle to assure the First Line of Defence.

What You'll Be Doing Lead Technical Assurance:
Develop and implement the Technical Assurance Strategy, ensuring every technical requirement is met across the project lifecycle. You'll be the first line of defence, building confidence for sponsors, regulators, investors, and our communities.

Aligning Technical Assurance with Programme Technical Risk:
Understand programme technical risks, and ensure Technical Assurance activities are proportionally focused on areas of Key technical risk.

Drive Excellence:
Oversee the creation and execution of Technical Assurance Plans, collaborating with delivery teams, supply chain partners, and subject matter experts to guarantee quality and integrity.

Champion Reporting & Improvement:
Produce clear, insightful reports that drive continuous improvement and facilitate the escalation of key issues.

Promote Safety:
Foster a culture of health, safety, and wellbeing, ensuring our zero-accident ambition is always front of mind.

Engage & Educate:
Lead a programme-wide education initiative to embed the value of technical assurance across the team.

What We're Looking For Experience managing multiple stakeholders

Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills

Knowledge of engineering assurance processes and risk management

Strategic and tactical thinking, with strong project management and IT skills

Commercial awareness and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset

A passion for building trust, encouraging challenge, and always focusing on the right outcome

A degree in a relevant engineering discipline (postgraduate and chartered status desirable)
Why Anglian Water?

We're more than just a water company. We're a community of people who care deeply about making a positive difference. You'll join a supportive, inclusive environment where your expertise is valued, your wellbeing is prioritised, and your ideas help shape the future.

Ready to love every drop and every day? Apply now and help us deliver water for life.

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 6% employee 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 every one 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 14th June#LI-LC1
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