Clean Water Process Engineer - Principal to Associate Director

Clean Water Process Engineer - Principal to Associate Director

Join WSP in the UK & Ireland as a Clean Water Process Engineer (Principal to Associate Director) and work on water and water‑reuse projects throughout the UK and overseas.

A Little More About Your Role…

Working within various multidisciplinary project design teams, you will play a key role in the delivery of the process engineering design content on a range of challenging water engineering projects. You will contribute from feasibility and option‑eering through to the production of detailed designs for procurement and construction, and review supplier proposals. As an experienced Clean Water Process Engineer, you will help 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.
• 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.
• Discuss and liaise with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT.
• 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 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 (internal or external) ensuring that 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 in delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects, including taking the lead process engineering role on a project or major 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 optioneering studies and feasibility, concept designs and/or detailed design in municipal clean water treatment solutions, including
  • Clarification (bottom hooper)
  • DAF
  • Rapid Gravity Filtration
  • Disinfection
  • Taste & Odour/Pesticides Removal
  • Chemical Dosing
• Previous experience in a consultancy environment, 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 the 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 organisation's technical representative with external clients.
• The ability to work accurately and flexibly, integrating your work with other disciplines while managing your own /your team’s work to tight programme and budget constraints.
• Be able to travel and visit operational works and construction sites as required, acting safely and assessing 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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