Clean Water Process Engineer - Principal to Associate Director

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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 (Principal to Associate Director) Clean Water Process Engineer to join our Water Engineering teams located in Birmingham, 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 water 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 Clean 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 include: 

• 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 
• To 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 to ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Providing input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets 
• Liaison with the Client (internal or external) ensuring that their needs are met

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

Qualifications

• A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc
• 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 optioneering studies and feasibility, concept designs and/or detail design in municipal clean water treatment solutions including
  • Clarification (bottom hooper)
  • DAF
  • Rapid Gravity Filtration
  • Disinfection
  • Taste & Odour/Pesticides Removal
  • Chemical Dosing
• Previous experience in a consultancy environment or engineering company or other relevant industry acting as Process Engineer. 
• Exceptional time management skills, including the ability to manage/deliver several projects at once. 
• 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 sub-contractors.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the organisation technical representative with external clients;
• The ability to work accurately and flexibly, integrating your work with other discipline areas whilst managing your own /your team’s work to tight programme and budget constraints.
• 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.

If you don’t meet all that we are looking for please still consider applying. Not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

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