Network Technician

Company: Anglian Water Group Ltd.
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Circa £27,452 per annum + standby & overtime once trained 12 Fixed term contract Covering the Bedfordshire Area (Bedford, Leighton Buzzard & Milton Keynes) Full time, 37 hours per week

Join us and make a difference! Love Every Drop! Come and join the motivated team of skilled Network Technicians and play your part in ensuring clean water reaches our customers and is safe to consume across the Bedfordshire area, covering Bedford, Leighton Buzzard & Milton Keynes. No day will be the same in this crucial role, you’ll undertake planned maintenance and also react to emergency requirements to maintain the water network. You’ll use your skills to carry out flushing, surveying, leak detections, pressure and flow tests and valve operations. Using your asset maps, data and tools you’ll resolve both planned and reactive operational problems in a thorough and timely manner. This is a field-based role and you’ll be provided with a fully equipped van as you travel around the region, consistently ensuring water quality is sufficiently maintained. A large part of the role will be liaising with customers, using your skills and expertise to deliver high levels of customer service, you’ll keep them informed every step of the way, becoming the face of Anglian Water for many of our customers.

Benefits

  • Personal private health care
  • 23 days annual leave – rising with length of service
  • Flexible working
  • Access to a company vehicle, tools and all uniform and PPE
  • Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
  • Bonus scheme
  • Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

Qualifications

  • Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent)
  • Experience of working in an engineering industry, ideally providing a front-line service
  • A strong technical aptitude
  • Ideally experience of water networks, street works and leakage control
  • Professional contact with customers is key, you must be able to explain terminology to the public in order to reassure and provide a great service
  • Proven experience of providing great customer service

This role requires you to work a 37-hour week, however you will need a flexible approach to working hours as you’ll be required to be on a standby rota and undertake overtime as and when required – you’ll be paid extra for this! In this field role you’ll travel to various locations around the region.

Why Anglian Water?

As well as being essential to survive, water is the key to a thriving economy and a flourishing environment. By joining us, you’ll become part of a company looking to raise awareness of the importance of water as we collaborate with customers, colleagues, communities to ensure we are securing a future water supply for our region.

Closing date: 20th October 2021 Interview dates: 28th & 29th October 2021 #loveeverydrop

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK.

Closing Note

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.

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Posted: October 3rd, 2026