Clean Water Process Engineer - Principal to Associate Director

Clean Water Process Engineer - Principal to Associate Director

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects, and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clean Water Process Engineer (Principal to Associate Director) to join our Water Engineering teams located in Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow.

Working within various multidisciplinary project design teams, you will take a key role in the delivery of the process engineering design content on a range of challenging projects in water engineering. These projects include water and water reuse projects throughout the UK and overseas. You will contribute to the project design from feasibility and optioneering through to production of detailed designs for procurement and construction and review of supplier proposals.

As an experienced Clean Water Process Engineer, you will work within project teams helping us deliver effective and professional services for a range of varied and high‑profile clients.

• Produce process design deliverables such as: optioneering studies; process calculations, mass balance, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, sketches, basis of design reports to achieve the optimum solution for the project.
• Undertaking outline or detailed process engineering design.
• Attending site visits for data acquisition and meeting site operators.
• Provide technical input to the procurement process.
• Support Project Managers in technical discussions with our clients.
• Discuss and liaise with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and technical supervision of junior staff.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multi‑disciplinary projects, delivering work on time, within cost and quality expectations and ensuring integration of process engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Provide input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets.
• Liaise with the client to ensure their needs are met.

• A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc.
• Professional registration as CEng (or working towards chartership within 12 months).

• Significant experience delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects, including leading the process engineering role on a project or significant task.
• Experience in the municipal water industry.
• Ability to work mainly unsupervised in the preparation and/or review of process design package deliverables such as technical specifications, calculations, reports, datasheets, schedules, process control philosophies, P&IDs, mass balances and procurement documentation.
• Experience delivering optioneering studies and feasibility, concept designs and/or detail design in municipal clean water treatment solutions including:
  • Clarification (bottom holder)
  • DAF
  • Rapid Gravity Filtration
  • Disinfection
  • Taste & Odour/Pesticides Removal
  • Chemical Dosing
• Previous experience in a consultancy environment or engineering company or other relevant industry acting as Process Engineer.
• Exceptional time management skills, including the ability to manage/deliver several projects at once.
• Proven ability to prepare high‑quality written technical reports and deliver verbal presentations to a high level of quality assurance for a variety of audiences.
• Confident, articulate communicator with ability to engage in active, professional verbal communications and presentations to colleagues, clients and sub‑contractors.
• Experience leading multi‑disciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the organisation technical representative with external clients.
• The ability to work accurately and flexibly, integrating your work with other discipline areas whilst managing your own /your team’s…