System Planner - Asset Delivery Planning
Circa £43,470 depending on skills and experience
Permanent – 2x roles available
Full Time, 37 hours per week
Location: Milton Keynes / Lincoln / Ely / Norwich / Ipswich / Colchester / Suffolk
Make every drop of your potential count…join our Water Recycling Asset Delivery Planning Team
Our business plan, which we have recently submitted to Ofwat will deliver £11billion of essential investment in the East of England, over the next five years. It was created in consultation with our customers, and it balances ambition and affordability. It will create over 7,000 jobs and meet the unique challenges facing our fast growing and climate stressed region, helping the East of England to thrive and prosper. To turn this plan into action, this role is vital within our Water Recycling Asset Delivery Planning team to help identify further treatment, pumping, storage and pipe network risks, the associated construction investment needs and improvements, and developing them with stakeholders. The role is also vital in helping us to prepare for our future business plan development in coming years.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care including physiotherapy
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
• Life Assurance at 8 times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5 times your salary
• Lots of great discounts!
• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave policies.

What you will be doing?
As a System Planner, within the Water Recycling Asset Delivery Planning team, your key purpose of this role will be to build relationships with stakeholders by identifying current and future risks, and investment opportunities. You will provide effective resolutions, by using information from data systems, site visits and stakeholder workshops. You will also create system plans which help identify future investments to mitigate these risks, understand business and regulatory requirements to ensure investments are providing optimum benefit.

Key tasks include:

• Creating and maintaining ‘system plans’, as a system of physical assets, from ‘customer to outfall’. System plans encompass all assets and activities from waste water collection, treatment, environmental discharge and bioresources
• Strategically bring together key stakeholders and capture data from corporate systems and site visits to provide risk and cost information to support investment planning process.
• Leading workshops with various stakeholders to understand current and future risks and identifying how these might be resolved.
• Generate initial root cause statements, evaluation of risks and creation of solutions to produce investments from the system plan for prioritisation.
• Working with key stakeholders and business experts to support regulatory requirements to produce a Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP).

What does it take to be a System Planner?

• Experience using Excel, PowerBi and ideally investment costing programmes, such as C55
• You must be a pro-active self-starter
• Excellent communication skills
• Advanced data reporting skills
• Knowledge of the Water industry would be desirable but not essential
• Full UK Driving Licence

Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.
Please don’t be put off if you don’t have all the skills required for the position, if you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then we’d love to hear from you.
Closing date : 29th July 2025

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• Creating and maintaining ‘system plans’, as a system of physical assets, from ‘customer to outfall’. System plans encompass all assets and activities from waste water collection, treatment, environmental discharge and bioresources
• Strategically bring together key stakeholders and capture data from corporate systems and site visits to provide risk and cost information to support investment planning process.
• Leading workshops with various stakeholders to understand current and future risks and identifying how these might be resolved.
• Generate initial root cause statements, evaluation of risks and creation of solutions to produce investments from the system plan for prioritisation.
• Working with key stakeholders and business experts to support regulatory requirements to produce a Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP)