Job Description
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 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 take a key role in the delivery of the 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. You will contribute to the project design from feasibility and optioneering through to the production of detailed designs for procurement and construction and review of supplier proposals.
Key Responsibilities
* 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.
* Undertaking outline or detailed process engineering design
* Attending site visits for data acquisition and meeting site operators
* To provide technical input to the procurement process
* Supporting Project Managers in technical discussions with our clients
* Discussions and liaison with technology providers and vendors
* HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT attendance
* Providing technical guidance, coaching and technical supervision of junior staff
* Working collaboratively with other disciplines on multi-disciplinary projects delivering work to time, cost and quality expectations and to ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
* Providing input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets
* Liaison with the Client (internal or external) ensuring that their needs are met
Qualifications
* A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc (or equivalent)
* Professional registration as CEng (or working towards Chartership within 12 months)
Skills and Experience
* 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 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, MBBR, MBR, 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 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.
About Us
We are one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
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