At Anglian Water, our people play a vital role in delivering essential services and protecting the environment for millions of customers. Whether you’re applying for your first role, changing sectors, or taking the next step in your career, we want the experience to feel positive and straightforward.
Our recruitment process is designed to be fair, inclusive, and focused on finding the right match for both you and the role. This page explains what you can expect when applying and how we’ll support you along the way.
Explore opportunities that match your skills, interests and career goals.
Find the Right Role
Submit your application via Workday using your candidate home account. We'll be asking you to upload your up to date CV here. This is an opportunity for you to tell us about you and what you can bring to the role.
Apply for a Role
We'll review your application once the closing date has passed, our recruiters and hiring managers review fairly and consistently against the role requirements
Shortlisting
If you’re shortlisted, we’ll invite you to showcase your experience and potential. You’ll receive an email with a link to book a convenient slot through your Workday account.
Interview
If you're offered a role, we'll talk you through the details and then you'll get a formal offer detailing salary, benefits and confirmed start date.
Your Offer
You'll need to accept your offer and start you're pre-employment checks as soon as you can, a final confirmation will then be issued when your checks are all cleared.
Pre-Employment Checks
Once everything is complete you will receive communication from your new manager detailing first day and induction information.
Welcome to Anglian WaterAll of our current opportunities are advertised on the Search and Apply part of our Careers Website. You can browse roles by location, job type, or area of the business to find something that matches your skills and interests.
We know it is extremely rare that someone would meet every requirement perfectly. If a role sounds like a good fit and you can demonstrate relevant skills or transferable experience, we’d encourage you to apply. We’re interested in your potential as well as your experience. We’d encourage you to include a covering letter with your application, as it gives you the opportunity to clearly highlight your transferable skills and bring your experience to life beyond what a CV alone can show.
Internal and external candidates are all welcome to apply. The application process may vary slightly depending on whether you’re applying from inside the organisation or joining us from elsewhere, but every application is considered fairly and consistently.
We’re interested in the skills, experience and behaviours that are relevant to the role you’re applying for. This might come from previous jobs, education, volunteering, or other experiences. Clear examples of what you’ve done and how you’ve done it are more useful than long lists of duties.
Aim to keep your CV Clear and focused. For most roles, two pages is usually ideal but if you are earlier in your career one page works just as well.
Keep it clear and Simple
You don’t need to have done the same job before to be a strong candidate. Skills such as communication, problem‑solving, teamwork, customer focus, safety awareness and adaptability are valuable across many roles.
If you’re changing sector or returning to work, help us understand how your skills apply to the role you’re interested in.
Your CV doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to help us understand who you are, what you’ve done, and what you could bring to Anglian Water.
We’ve designed our application process to be as straightforward and accessible as possible. All applications are completed through our online platform, Workday, where you can track your progress every step of the way.
When you find a role you’re interested in, click Apply to begin your application in Workday.
You’ll be asked to:
Tip – Use an email address you check regularly as we’ll send important updates about your application here.
Alongside uploading your CV you may be asked to:
We ask all candidates to be truthful and accurate in their application and throughout the recruitment process, including when providing information about qualifications, employment history, right to work, and any other details requested.
Information shared during recruitment may be verified at later stages. Providing false or misleading information may affect your application or result in the withdrawal of an offer of employment.
We want everyone to feel confident applying for a role with us.
If you need any adjustments during the application process, you can let us know within Workday or via the recruitment team.
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We recognise that candidates now use AI tools to support with job searching, CV writing and application preparation. If AI is used well it can be a helpful way to structure your thoughts, improve formatting and highlight relevant experience.
Your application should always reflect your own skills, experience and achievements.
We want to understand who you are, what you’ve done and what you can bring to Anglian Water. If your application is relying too heavily on AI, your application may feel generic, making it harder for us to get a genuine understanding of the person behind the application.
The strongest applications are those that clearly demonstrate your genuine experience, achievements and potential. We encourage you to use AI as a tool to support your application, not replace it.
Once adverts close (or as they’re received, for some roles), our recruitment team and hiring managers carefully review applications against the requirements of the role.
We use a fair and consistent approach to assess skills, experience, and behaviours. As part of this process, we also use a Recruitment AI Tool to help organise and highlight relevant information across applications.
AI is used to support decision‑making, not replace it, ensuring applications are considered consistently and objectively.
A recruiter will always review every application to decide an outcome.
As we often receive a high number of applications, we’re not able to progress everyone to interview. If you’re shortlisted, we’ll contact you (usually by email) to let you know what happens next. Everyone who applies will be kept informed of the outcome.
We’re really grateful for the level of interest in our roles, at busy times this can affect timelines, but we’ll always let you know where things are up to.
If your application isn’t shortlisted this time, it doesn’t mean you won’t be a good fit for future opportunities at Anglian Water.
If you’re shortlisted for an interview, you’ll either receive a phone call from our team to book in an interview slot that is suitable for you or you will receive an email inviting you to self‑schedule an interview slot through your Workday candidate home account.
You will either receive a phone call from us to book in your interview or you will be invited to book a slot.
To book your interview slot online:
Once booked, you’ll receive email confirmation containing further information about your interview, the job description, any preparation information you need to complete for the interview (if required) along with any online joining links or location details.
Preparing for your Interview
We want you to feel as comfortable as possible so you can perform at your best. Here are some simple steps that can help you prepare:
Arrival
Dress Code
We would like you to represent your true self at the interview and we would encourage you to wear what you feel comfortable in, that’s suitable for the environment you are applying to. In most cases this is likely to be professional, but not always formal.
Right to Work
You may be asked to bring Right to Work documents with you to your interview. This request will be in your email invite. Right to Work documents are necessary to ensure we are compliant with government legislation.
Which documents to bring depends on your nationality and what kind of permission you have to work in the UK.
When answering competency based interview questions the STAR method is a very useful technique. This allows you to structure your response to the interview question and also include all of the important parts.
Situation
Describe the situation or event you were in (Set the scene) include information on what was happening or where you were working?
Task
Explain what was needed and what were you responsible for
Action
Focus on the actions you took to positively affect the outcome. Ensure particular attention is spent on this to explain your thoughts and motives and focus on what you did specifically.
Result
You are the star of the story, make sure the panel know what actions you undertook and why. Explain what you learned from the outcome and what you would do differently if in that situation again.
We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.
If you require any adjustments or additional support at any stage of the process, we encourage you to let us know either when you apply, when you’re invited to interview, or at any point that suits you. We understand that everyone’s needs are different, and we’ll work with you to make sure you feel comfortable, supported, and able to perform at your best.
Please contact the Recruitment team to discuss any support or adjustments you may require or click below for more information on Adjustments.
We recognise that AI tools are becoming an increasingly common part of everyday life and can be valuable for research, learning and preparing for interviews. However, during your interview, we ask that you do not use AI tools, prompts, generated responses, or other external assistance to answer questions.
Our interviews are designed to help us understand your skills, experience, and ways of thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent process for all candidates, we want responses to reflect your own knowledge and experience.
Equally, our interviewers will not be using AI during the assessment/Interview. This allows us to engage in an authentic conversation, understand your perspectives and provide a fair and consistent experience for all candidates
If you’re successful, either your recruiter or the hiring manager will give you a call to let you know we’d like to offer you the role. This is your chance to hear the news first, talk through the role, ask any questions and let us know how you’re feeling about it.
After the call, we’ll send you an email confirming the offer and setting out all the details clearly. This email acts as your formal offer, so you can take time to read through everything properly.
Your contract of employment will then be sent to you by our Onboarding team. This is the official paperwork that covers your terms and conditions and helps us get everything ready for you to start.
To move things along, its important that you
These checks need to be completed before you can start work, any delays in returning paperwork can slow things down, so responding promptly really helps.
We aim to keep this process as smooth and transparent as possible, and we’ll guide you through anything we need from you along the way. Once everything is complete, we’ll confirm your start date and get ready to welcome you to Anglian Water.
Before you can start with us, there are a few checks we need to complete. These are a normal part of joining Anglian Water and help us make sure we’re meeting legal and regulatory requirements.
Everyone who joins us must complete a right to work in the UK check. It’s really important that the information you share on your application is accurate, as this helps avoid delays later in the process.
Some roles also require additional checks. Which ones apply will depend on the nature of the role and may include things like:
– Criminal record checks (DBS)
– Financial checks
– Security checks
– Employment or HMRC references
If any of these apply to you, we’ll explain exactly what’s needed and guide you through the process.
If you’re unsure about any part of the checks, or something doesn’t seem clear, you can contact our Onboarding team at any stage. They’re there to support you and help things run as smoothly as possible.
Once all of your pre‑employment checks are complete, we’ll re-confirm your start date and explain what to expect before you join us.
Ahead of day one, your manager will usually be in touch to welcome you, introduce themselves and share any practical details you’ll need, such as how your first day will work, where to go and who you’ll meet.
Our Onboarding team will also stay in touch to make sure everything is ready for you to join us, they’ll also send you some onboarding tasks through our people platform, Workday, to help get everything set up.
On your first day, you can expect a warm welcome, time to get set up, and support to help you settle into your role. We don’t expect you to know everything straight away, your manager and team will be there to guide you.
When you join Anglian Water, you can expect:
– Clear guidance and support as you get started
– Time to learn, settle in and ask questions
– A welcoming, supportive team around you
– A structured onboarding experience to help you feel confident in your role
