Associate Director for Bioresources Process Engineering

We offer hybrid working which involves 3 days per week being office/site based. As Associate Director, you will be a technical leader, meaning your role will involve travel within the UK to client and other AtkinsRéalis offices. Occasional international travel to clients and conferences may also be required. This position can be based in any of the following of our offices in the UK:
Manchester, Bristol, London, Epsom, Peterborough, Birmingham or Cambridge. Your role As an Associate Director Bioresources Process in the D&AT practice, the successful candidate would have the following responsibilities:

• Provide visible representation of your and Bioresources Process Engineering technical expertise to our current and prospective clients.
• Able to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including internal and external clients, operational staff, project teams, or their external stakeholders
• Lead, coordinate or manage members of a team of Process engineers for delivery of technical design work on small to complex multi-disciplinary projects following relevant national and project specific design codes and standards, and to high-quality levels in all areas of waste water and bioresource treatment process and principles - conventional and advance treatment technologies, liquids and gasses, as well as heat.
• Responsible for managing the production and review of technical deliverables such as design reports, process calculations, process control philosophies, etc.
• Lead on the development of project design deliverables for Process aspects of complex multi-disciplinary projects and work, with the project management team, to successfully manage time and budgets to key project milestones and programmes.
• Proactively identify opportunities for cross-selling and business growth, using commercial insight to strengthen and expand client relationships and selling our value proposition to clients.
• Work closely with teams within AtkinsRéalis with overlapping and complimentary services, who provide strategic services, policy and regulation advice, operations and maintenance expertise, to ensure lessons learnt in their projects are incorporated as lessons learnt into bioresources projects' design development.
• Provide Technical Leadership within discipline for the regional and national D&AT practice and influence D&AT Practice wide initiatives and recommend best practices to improve internal processes and services.
• Grow, develop, and manage the Process Engineering capabilities within the regional and/or national practice.
• Work independently with guidance in only the most challenging situations. Exercise personal judgement to solve difficult problems where appropriate and provide guidance to junior team members.
• Advise client, operational, project, or service activities within project teams and wider D&AT Practice initiatives.
• Manage or collaborate on technical aspects of bid proposals.
• Provide mentorship to less experienced colleagues and help to grow the Process Engineering capabilities within the process team.
• Work closely with and within a multi-disciplinary team in the UK and overseas to deliver integrated design solutions.
• Adhere to quality assurance standards in design including check and review of your own work as well as others.
• You would be a well-rounded and versatile individual who exemplifies the following key skills and attributes:
• Chartered Engineer, preferably IChemE or CIWEM.
• A degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent (e.g. Environmental, Water and Waste water engineering, etc.).
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and broad expertise in Process engineering treatment processes and principles e.g. advanced anaerobic digestion, advanced thermal conversion (ATC), etc. Examples of ATC processes include…