Enabling Lead

At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.

The IOS Contract is a 5-year programme valued at approximately £444 million, delivering specialist water and water recycling projects. This role involves managing projects under the NEC3 contract suite, with a focus on Option E (Pre-Contract Planning) and Option A (Priced Contract with Activity Schedule).

The successful candidate will manage various delivery teams to ensure robust management of contractual obligations and compliance with Anglian Water’s governance standards. The role is employed by Anglian Water and involves working in partnership with alliance partners Barhale, Kier, and MGroup.

What will you be doing as our new Enabling Lead

The Enabling Lead plays a critical role in delivering IOS projects by identifying, managing, and mitigating environmental and consenting risks from concept through to construction. Responsible for securing all necessary permits, licences, consents, and agreements, they ensure projects progress efficiently and compliantly.

Working closely with design, engineering, and construction teams, the Enabling Lead embeds a “Right First Time” approach, helping to design out risk, reduce delays, and optimise delivery outcomes. Acting as a key interface with regulators, local authorities, environmental bodies, land agents, and supply chain partners, they build strong stakeholder relationships that support timely approvals and responsible project delivery.

• Influence project design and delivery strategies to eliminate risk, reduce cost, and minimise programme impacts through a Right First Time approach.

• Build and maintain effective relationships with regulators, local authorities, landowners, and other external stakeholders to support successful project delivery.

• Identify and assess environmental, planning, heritage, and land constraints using GIS and other risk assessment tools.

• Produce and manage enabling deliverables, including Enabling Risk Assessments and GIS constraint mapping.

• Evaluate environmental and consenting risks, providing clear recommendations to engineering, design, and construction teams.

• Support supplier selection and management, ensuring capability, capacity, and delivery requirements are aligned to project needs.

• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness, challenging costs appropriately and driving value through the supply chain.

Why Anglian Water?
At Anglian Water, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure their hard work is recognised and rewarded. Some of our benefits include:

• Bonus scheme

• Private healthcare

• Competitive pension scheme

• Min 25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme

• Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

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.

If this opportunity to add value to deliver on vital projects appeals to you and you feel this is the next step in your career aspirations,  then please apply today.