Salary - Circa £32,500 dependent on skills & experience + business use of company van
Permanent, 37 hours per week
Location – Flexible across the Anglian Water region

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!
Are you passionate about health and safety and ensuring compliance with industry standards? In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in protecting the health and wellbeing of Anglian Water employees, site visitors, and stakeholders. You will be responsible for conducting risk assessment, routine monitoring, and implementing remedial actions to ensure compliance with ACOP L8 (Approved Code of Practice for Legionnaires’ disease) and best practices for Legionella control.

This role involves planning and undertaking Legionella compliance activities across Anglian Water owned sites, excluding those managed by Facilities Management. You will work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to identify risks, maintain accurate records, and support continuous improvement in Legionella risk management practices.
 

Key responsibilities

• Carry out routine Legionella control tasks in accordance with L8 and HSG274 standards
• Perform temperature checks, flushing, cleaning, and disinfection of water system components
• Conduct visual inspections and collect and label water samples for laboratory analysis
• Maintain accurate assurance documentation and participate in audits
• Identify non-compliant systems and escalate issues to relevant teams
• Support continuous improvement of Legionella management and engage with stakeholders
• Recognise significance of failing and unusual results and apply the correct escalation procedure
• Liaise with site teams, asset owners, health and safety personnel, and external contractors to coordinate access and reduce disruption
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety, ensuring consistent standards are maintained

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Private healthcare for your peace of mind
• An annual bonus scheme
• Business use of company van
• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• Qualifications in Legionella control or application of regulations
• Excellent IT skills, including use of digital compliance and reporting tools
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Proactive approach to process improvement and implementation skills
• Attention to detail and ability to ensure legal and procedural compliance
• Positive attitude, teamwork, and commitment to health and safety standards

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

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: 1st December 2025

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