Associate Wastewater Process Engineer

Job Overview

As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Associate Waste Water Process Engineer to join our Water Engineering teams located in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow. Working within various multidisciplinary project design teams, you will play a key role in delivering process engineering design content on a range of challenging projects in water engineering.

These projects include wastewater and water reuse projects throughout the UK and overseas.

As an experienced Waste 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 balances, 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 meet site operators.
• Provide technical input to the procurement process.
• Support Project Managers in technical discussions with our clients.
• Discussions and liaison with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT meetings.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and technical supervision of junior staff.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multi‑disciplinary projects delivering work to time, cost and quality expectations, 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 (internal or external) to ensure that their needs are met.

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

• Significant experience 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.
• Ability to work 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 waste water 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 multi‑disciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the organization 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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