Associate Wastewater Process Engineer

Associate Wastewater Process Engineer

WSP in the UK & Ireland – locations:
Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Glasgow.

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.

An experienced Associate Waste Water Process Engineer will work within multidisciplinary project design teams, taking a key role in delivering process engineering design content for wastewater and water reuse projects throughout the UK and overseas. This includes feasibility, optioneering, detailed design for procurement and construction, and review of supplier proposals.

• Produce process design deliverables such as optioneering studies; process calculations, mass balance, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, sketches, basis of design reports, etc., to achieve the optimum solution for the project.
• Undertake outline or detailed process engineering design.
• Attend 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.
• Liaise with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multidisciplinary projects delivering work to time, 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.
• Ensure client needs are met through liaison with the Client (internal or external).

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

• Significant experience in delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects, including taking the lead process engineering role on a project or significant task.
• Experience in the municipal water industry.
• The 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 studies, feasibility, concept designs, FEED and detail design in wastewater treatment solutions in the municipal sector or industrial sector such as primary treatments, secondary treatments, tertiary treatments (filtration, clarification, chemical dosing, P removal, ASP, MB , M , and other advanced biological treatments).
• Understanding of circular economy, Zero Liquid Discharge, emerging tertiary treatments both in municipal and industrial sector.
• Experience in a consultancy environment or engineering company or other relevant industry acting as Process Engineer.
• 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 (including senior colleagues), clients and sub-contractors.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the organisation technical representative with external clients.
• Be able to travel and visit operational works and construction sites as required, to act in a safe manner, and to assess existing and new process performance.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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