Engineering Standards Engineer – Water & Infrastructure Design

As a valued employee, you'll receive:

• Personal private healthcare
• Life cover - 8x annual salary paid to dependents
• 26 days' annual leave (rising with service) plus bank holidays, with flexibility to swap for alternative religious holidays
• Flexible working options
• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7%
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

Closing Date: 18th November 2026

This role is ideal for a Design or Infrastructure Engineer looking to broaden their impact.

Rather than delivering designs, you'll use your experience to develop and improve standards, specifications and standard products that guide projects across the business.

• Develop and update engineering standards, specifications and design guidance
• Support standard product development and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with engineering, procurement and operational teams
• Support governance and ensure standards are practical and compliant

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)
Salary: £44,328

Anglian Water is investing £3bn in infrastructure across the East of England. Our Asset Standards Team ensures everything we build is safe, efficient and sustainable by defining our engineering standards and standard products.

This role requires experience in engineering design or infrastructure delivery.
If you do not have this background, this position is unlikely to be suitable.

Please include a short supporting statement (max 1 page) covering:

• Your experience in engineering design or infrastructure projects
• Any experience with standards, specifications or design guidance
• How your skills align if you don't meet all requirements
• Why you are excited to work for Anglian Water and shape our future standards

Applications without this information may not be progressed.

• Influence how major infrastructure is designed and delivered
• Work on a £3bn investment programme
• Develop your career in a collaborative, supportive team

Hybrid working with an average of 2-3 days per week in our Peterborough office, plus occasional site visits.