Associate Wastewater Process Engineer

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What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? 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.

As an experienced Associate Waste Water Process Engineer, you will join our Water Engineering teams located in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow. Working within multidisciplinary project design teams, you will take a key role in delivering process engineering design content on challenging water engineering projects, including wastewater and water reuse projects throughout the UK and overseas. You will contribute to the project design from feasibility and optioneering all the way to detailed designs for procurement and construction, and review 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 meet site operators.
• Provide technical input to the procurement process.
• Support Project Managers in technical discussions with clients.
• Engage in discussions and liaison with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
• Collaborate with other disciplines on multi‑disciplinary projects, delivering work on time, within cost and quality expectations, and ensuring integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Contribute 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 (or equivalent).
• Professional registration as CEng or working towards chartership within 12 months.

• Significant experience delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects and leading the 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 wastewater treatment solutions in the municipal sector or industrial sector such as primary, secondary, tertiary treatments and advanced biological treatments.
• Understanding of circular economy, Zero Liquid Discharge, emerging tertiary treatments in municipal and industrial sectors.
• 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, clients and sub‑contractors.
• Experience leading multi‑disciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the organisational 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.

Work‑life balance:
Our hybrid working policy offers flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in…