Overview
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As part of the Water Engineering teams, you will work on wastewater and water reuse projects across 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.
Role location
Locations: 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.
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.
* Provide technical input to the procurement process.
* Support Project Managers in technical discussions with clients.
* Liaise with technology providers and vendors.
* HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT attendance.
* Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
* Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multi-disciplinary projects, delivering 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) to ensure 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 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, 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.
What’s in it for you?
* Work-life balance with a hybrid policy offering the flexibility to work from home two days a week and in modern offices across the UK.
* Inclusivity and belonging, with programs to support a diverse workforce.
* Health and wellbeing initiatives, including Thrive programme, Virtual GP access, menopause support and gym membership discounts.
* Flex your time with options like WSP My Hour, part-time and flexible working arrangements, and additional leave options.
* Development opportunities through training, mentoring, and Chartership support.
EEO Statement
We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, 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.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Part-time
Job function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Professional Services
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