Lead OT Engineer

• Personal private health care    

• Generous double match pension – contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21% 

• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household  

• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more   

• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)   

• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary) 

• 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 and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.  

Here at Anglian Water, our region is flourishing, and we understand the need to prioritise support for our economy, customers, and communities to enable sustainable growth and provide greater resilience.   

Providing the essentials required to facilitate this growth takes more than mains, drains, reservoirs, and treatment centres, it takes industry leading technology too!  It is vital that we pay close attention to how our assets and water and water recycling networks are performing.   

As a Lead OT Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, oversight, and strategic direction across Operational Technology (OT) systems used within Anglian Water’s operational environments. Acting as the primary point of contact for complex OT and process control challenges, you will support field engineers, operational teams, and stakeholders in diagnosing and resolving high-impact technical issues, whilst supporting with the delivery of large capital schemes. Your expertise will be central to ensuring regulatory compliance, reducing leakage and pollution events, and upholding service resilience across our critical infrastructure. 

·  Work with the OT Programme Team and senior business stakeholders to ensure project deliverables and outcomes are fully aligned to AM8 goals to enable business outcomes to be achieved e.g. ODIs, I2S, energy efficiencies and OPEX savings   

·  Undertake technical risk assessments to determine areas of risk and impact of changes to be implemented to existing automation control systems and Industry Control Networks   

·  Responsible for the creation of high-level customer requirements documents (IRDS) and detailed Functional Design Specifications (FDS), including system architectures for new and modifications to existing Automation & SCADA systems, industry control networks   

·   Work closely with all AWS capital delivery partners (@one/IOS) and 3rd party supplies to ensure new hardware has been fully tested and approved before installation.    

·   Undertake the review and sign-off of 3rd party technical documentation and designs relating to the delivery of Automation and SCADA capital delivery project   

·   Support and facilitate POC’s and trials of new Automation/SCADA hardware, technology, and systems to support the delivery of the OT strategy e.g. IIoT, Industry 4.0 etc   

·  Undertake on-site commissioning and service integration of new and modifications relating to existing  PLC/SCADA and industrial control networks   

·  Extensive industry experience of engineering, implementing, and maintaining OT Process Control, 

SCADA, PLC and Industrial Networks   

·   Provide technical expertise on Telemetry outstations, PLCs/SCADA/HMIs and associated networking infrastructure  

·   Ability to practically apply available and emerging technologies within OT engineering to deliver robust, reliable, commissionable, operable and maintainable assets within a regulatory environment  

·   Extensive knowledge and experience of the OT discipline, processes, concepts and best practice    

·   Proven troubleshooting skills with an ability to demonstrate methodical approaches to problem solving   

·  Ability to write clear, concise, accurate engineering & design specifications with measurable outputs  

·  Strong motivation and coaching skills  

·  Excellent communicator and able to challenge and collaborate constructively at all levels  

·   Full Driving Licence   

If this opportunity is screaming your name then don’t hesitate to apply! 

If you are offered a job with us, you will be subject to the relevant/standard employment checks, including: your right to work in the UK, reference, driving licence and identity check. Depending on your role, you may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.   

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