Principal process engineer

Principal Process Engineer - Water

Location: Peterborough

Salary Guide: £70,000 - £80,000 Plus Bonus, Car/Allowance & Excellent Package

Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominantly in the water industry who have been awarded a programme of work to deliver non-infrastructure water and wastewater projects for Anglian Water and they are recruiting for a Principal Process Engineer to help deliver these projects.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will provide engineering technical direction to the process discipline engineers in either water or water recycling non-infrastructure projects. You will provide design support for numerous non-infrastructure schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards. You'll work in collaboration with the project design team to arrive at appropriate process solutions adopting the principles of optimised plant performance and ensuring engineering design standards are followed.

Responsibilities

• Undertake process design of Wastewater solution and sewerage systems that achieve the goals of Anglian Water in terms of customer, environment, and efficiency. Be responsible to produce technical deliverables required these include, but are not limited to:
  • Technical schedules and data sheets.
  • Engineering calculations (hydraulic calculations, pump calculations, mass balance calculation, RICS calculations, etc.).
  • Particular specifications for engineering subcontracts.
  • Working closely with the supply chain and performing technical bid analysis of their designs.
• Oversee key outputs including process calculations, hydraulics, unit processes, pump calculations, capacity calculations, data sheets and technical bid analysis of 3rd party process equipment.
• Communicate effectively at all relevant levels to ensure that the need to deliver technical excellence is understood and implemented.
• Escalate issues that may impact on time/cost/quality before they become problems or exceed agreed timescales.
• Support the drive towards excellence in H&S, demonstrating applied knowledge and skills to produce safe designs to discharge your obligation according to CDM Regulations, standards, and accepted codes of practice.
• Maintain close links with other Engineering teams to ensure smooth interfaces between disciplines; manage gaps/overlaps & share best practice.

Skills, Qualifications & Experience

You’ll be educated to degree level in wastewater process science/engineering related subject and have experience of process engineering in wastewater on large scale projects.

With strong communication skills, you’ll have excellent stakeholder management skills and champion collaboration to tackle challenges and obstacles which could hinder our objective of outperformance. Demonstrating strong IT skills, you’ll marry your technical and people skills to deliver the best process engineering facility to your stakeholders on a