Process Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location: Peterborough
Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of the { (6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we’re taking on nature‑based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.
As a Process Engineer within one of our four business units, you will contribute to the development and delivery of process designs for water and water recycling projects on AMP8. You’ll support senior engineers in producing design outputs and help ensure these meet required standards, specifications, and project objectives.
What you’ll be doing
* Support the delivery of process design activities, ensuring they meet safety, technical, and quality requirements.
* Prepare and contribute to design deliverables, including mass balances, hydraulic calculations, P&IDs, and process flow diagrams.
* Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support design reviews and incorporate feedback.
* Assist with design development tasks, contributing to the resolution of technical challenges.
* Ensure designs follow relevant health, safety, and environmental standards, including hazardous area regulations (DSEAR).
* Contribute to continuous improvement by applying innovative design approaches and supporting digital tools.
* Support engagement with stakeholders and suppliers as required to progress design work.
* Promote sustainable design practices and support carbon‑reduction objectives across project delivery.
Who we’re looking for
* A degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Process Engineering, or equivalent experience.
* Experience within the water sector or a related process‑driven industry.
* A good understanding of process design principles, standards, and environmental considerations.
* Experience producing or contributing to technical design deliverables.
* An interest in progressing towards chartership (support provided).
* Familiarity with health, safety, and environmental requirements within engineering projects.
* Strong communication and problem‑solving skills, with a collaborative and proactive approach.
* A genuine interest in sustainability and delivering environmentally responsible engineering solutions.
Business Unit alignment
Depending on your skills, experience, and interests, you could be aligned to one of the Alliance’s four business units:
Place Based Thinking
The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.
Water
The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.
Water Recycling (East and West)
Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000 km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.
Benefits
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family‑friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing an inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We also commit to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
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