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Overview
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.
About Your Role
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.
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.
* 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.
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 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.
Development and Benefits
Work‑life balance: Our hybrid working policy offers flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK. Flex your time with “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities. Part‑time and flexible working arrangements are also available. We provide additional leave options and the ability to use bank holiday entitlement.
Health & Wellbeing
We support our people’s health through the Thrive programme, a Virtual GP service, reasonable workplace adjustments, a Gymflex scheme, and a comprehensive menopause support package.
Inclusivity & Belonging
We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences, encourage people to bring their whole authentic selves to work, celebrate integrity and treat everyone with respect. Employee resource groups promote our culture of inclusion and belonging.
About Us
We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms, with 72,800 passionate people united by the 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.
Application Encouragement
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.
We Are WSP
Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close‑knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Apply today.
EEO Statement
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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