Overview

Principal Wastewater Process Engineer role at WSP. Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow. Join our Water Engineering teams to deliver the process design for wastewater projects in the UK and overseas.

What you’ll do

Working within multidisciplinary project design teams, you will take a key role in the delivery of process engineering design content on challenging water projects. You will contribute from feasibility and optioneering through to the production of detailed designs for procurement and construction, and review of supplier proposals. You will provide 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., 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.
• Supporting Project Managers in technical discussions with our clients.
• Discussions and liaison with technology providers and vendors.
• HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT attendance.
• Providing technical guidance, coaching and technical supervision of junior staff.
• Working collaboratively with other disciplines on multi-disciplinary projects delivering work to time, cost and quality expectations and ensuring integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Providing input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets; liaising with the Client to ensure their needs are met.
• Liaison with the Client (internal or external) to ensure their needs are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical or Environmental Engineering (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 or industrial sector (e.g., primary, secondary, tertiary treatments, filtration, chemical dosing, P removal, ASP, MBBR, MBR, and other 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 acting as a Process Engineer.
• Proven ability to prepare high-quality technical reports and deliver verbal presentations to a high level of quality assurance for diverse 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 in person) and acting as the organisation’s technical representative with external clients; travel as required and operate safely.

What we offer

We support development and Chartership. Our hybrid working policy offers flexibility to work from home two days a week with modern offices across the UK. We offer part-time and flexible working arrangements, a health and wellbeing program and a comprehensive wellbeing package.

About us

WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms with a diverse global team. We are committed to innovation, integrity and inclusion, and we support communities across the UK and Ireland.

Inclusive recruitment

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 workplace adjustments.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Part-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Professional Services