Process Engineer - Egham/Iver Customer Delivery · Egham, Iver in Hatfield

Affinity Water has a great opportunity for Process Engineers across Egham/Iver. This is a brilliant opportunity to further your engineering experience, deliver major projects and work towards your chartership. You will be able to work on construction projects, carry out site improvements, optimisation and review designs.

The Role: As a Process Engineer you will provide technical leadership across Production operations, taking ownership of all aspects of the delivery of capex & opex schemes and support front‑line teams to deliver objectives.

Process Engineer Responsibilities:

• Engagement throughout project life cycles from initial concept through design, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Liaison between Production, Capital Delivery and the supply chain.
• Involvement with the creation of the implementation plan for all projects and programme of works.
• Ensuring that projects are commissioned and completed in line with project delivery procedures.
• Deliver technical solutions in line with CDM and company procedure and standard requirements.
• Active participation in safety studies (Including HAZOP) and investigation meetings.
• Technical coach/mentor of frontline to enhance fault finding, optimisation and controlled changes to improve operational performance.
• Authority to challenge capital project scope and deviation to standards.
• Drive efficiency through identification and delivery of optimisation schemes.
• Attending FAT/SAT on projects.
• Provide visible leadership to the team and the Business, through area initiatives and site tours and inspections.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues from across the Business, including other Production teams, Customer Operations, Water Quality, Asset Strategy, Procurement, HR and H&S.
• Support peers through meetings and discussion.
• Constructively challenge current or revised asset standards where they adversely impact efficient or compliant project delivery.
• Responsibility for proactively managing Production Engineer workload and work with PE group to deliver all requirements, using KPIs to communicate performance and agree prioritisation with the Customer Delivery SLT.
• Utilising supply chain as required.
• Proactively working with Procurement to drive performance and standardisation from the supply chain as part of continual improvement and delivering best value for money.
• Responsible for communicating good practice to and from the team and planning for and delivering change around asset optimisation and improvement.
• Deliver work through an agreed method taking into account water quality, customer supply, H&S etc. (e.g. downtime, RAMS processes).

Essential Qualifications and experience required:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in chemical, electrical or mechanical engineering from an accredited institution or equivalent.
• Proven experience in an Engineering role, possessing broad technical skills.
• Highly motivated self-starter, capable of working alone and as part of a project team.
• Understanding of asset management processes and whole life costing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to participate in the Duty Production Lead standby rota.
• Full UK Driving License.

Benefits:

• Salary: £56,165 (salary dependant on skills and experience)
• Company Car
• Hours of work: Mon - Thursday (08:00am - 16:00pm) Friday (08:00am - 15:30pm)
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Support/funding towards chartership qualification(s).
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.