Senior Process Water Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Process Engineer, you will lead multi-disciplinary process design for municipal and industrial water projects, shaping from concept to detailed design and ensuring compliant, deliverable solutions. You will coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, apply mass/energy balances and control philosophies, and contribute to feasibility studies and fee proposals. The role blends technical rigor with mentoring, digital design tools, and international collaboration. This is an opportunity to influence water treatment and waste management within a global, values-driven firm.

Pay / Benefits

• Profit Share
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Accident insurance
• Income protection
• Flexible benefits

Responsibilities

• Coordinate work streams and liaise with other disciplines to deliver integrated designs
• Work within a gated design and project delivery process in highly regulated sectors
• Develop mass and energy balances, process data sheets, control philosophies, and commissioning plans
• Contribute to report writing, feasibility studies, and fee proposals for plant operating and capital costs
• Apply digital design approaches and current analysis software to solve problems
• Mentor graduates and contribute to the internal training programme
• Participate in HAZOP studies and support safety/regulatory compliance initiatives
• Develop PID, plant layouts, GA, and energy/mass balance documentation

Key requirements

• Degree in chemical engineering or similar
• Familiarity with wastewater and/or drinking water treatment processes
• Understanding of the municipal UK treatment landscape
• Familiarity with UK water industry regulations and compliance standards
• Experience using Biowin and GPS-X modelling software
• Experience as the process designer in HAZOP teams and chairing HazOp studies
• Experience in developing feasibility studies and plant operating and capital cost estimates
• Experience with digital approaches and current analysis/design software
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Clear communication and liaison across disciplines
• Mentoring and leadership
• Biowin
• GPS-X
• HAZOP facilitation

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