Senior or Principal Clean Water Process Engineer - National

Job Description Overview Develop Your Career and Shape the Future of Water Infrastructure. At AtkinsRéalis, our Design & Advanced Technology practice brings together some of the UK's most diverse engineering and design expertise to tackle the most complex challenges facing our clients, communities, and the environment. We are seeking a Senior or Principal Process Engineer with expertise in clean water and municipal drinking water treatment to join our growing Water team.

You will help to lead the delivery of innovative, sustainable, and technically excellent solutions across a diverse portfolio of clean water and municipal drinking water treatment projects, water resource, resilience, and infrastructure programmes for major UK water sector clients. Join us at a pivotal moment for the UK water industry. AMP8 represents a step change in investment, creating opportunities to work on some of the most significant infrastructure programmes in a generation, including strategic reservoir developments, water resource schemes, treatment works upgrades, and major resilience projects that will help secure water supplies for decades to come.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Chartered Engineer looking to apply their expertise across one of the UK's largest and most diverse portfolios of water infrastructure projects. Whether your ambition is to strengthen your technical leadership, lead the delivery of major programmes, grow client relationships, or progress towards people leadership, AtkinsRéalis offers the scale, support, and opportunities to help you achieve your goals.

When you join us, you'll become part of a collaborative community of experts who challenge conventional thinking and push the boundaries of engineering excellence.

• Secure workload through major long-term frameworks.
• Opportunities to influence nationally significant projects and helping to shape the future of water infrastructure across the UK.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across the UK and internationally.
• Opportunities to influence project outcomes from concept through to delivery.
• A culture that encourages innovation, technical excellence and professional growth.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements that support work-life balance.
• Clear career progression pathways and professional development opportunities.

We offer hybrid working which involves 3 days per week being office/site based. This position can be based from any of our major offices of London Nova, Epsom, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, or Glasgow.

The role offers broad project exposure, technical development, and clear opportunities for progression within a collaborative and growing team.

You will:

• Lead the delivery of process engineering solutions for water and environmental projects through all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple disciplines to develop integrated and sustainable outcomes.
• Act as a technical lead, providing guidance, assurance, and mentoring to engineers and technicians.
• Develop and review technical reports, calculations, specifications, drawings, and design packages.
• Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders and project partners.
• Contribute to innovation, continuous improvement and the adoption of new technologies.
• Help identify opportunities that create additional value for clients and communities.

We're interested in people who are technically strong, commercially aware and genuinely enjoy collaborative working. You’ll bring a willingness to learn, a proactive approach to problem solving, and the ability to work collaboratively within diverse project teams.

You’ll ideally bring:

• A degree in Chemical or Process Engineering or equivalent.
• Char…