Senior Waste Water Process Engineer
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A Little More About Your Role…
As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior 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.
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.
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.
* 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.
* Conduct discussions and liaison with technology providers and vendors.
* Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
* Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
* Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multi‑disciplinary projects delivering work to time, cost and quality expectations and ensure 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.
Qualifications
* A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc (or equivalent).
* Professional registration as CEng (or working toward 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.
* 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 subcontractors.
* 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.
Let us help you reach your potential
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. With over 72,000 passionate people worldwide, we 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.
What’s in it for you?
* Work‑life balance: Hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, with opportunities to collaborate in modern offices across the UK.
* Inclusivity & belonging: We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences, encouraging people to bring their authentic selves to work.
* Health & wellbeing: We support our people with the Thrive programme, Virtual GP service, Gymflex scheme, and comprehensive menopause support package.
* Flex your time: “WSP My Hour” allows you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with flexibility to make up the time earlier or later.
* Development: We invest in your growth through training, mentoring, and chartership.
Equal Opportunity
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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