Principal / Associate Wastewater Process Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Join WSP and help shape the future of water engineering across the UK and overseas. This role is based in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce process design deliverables such as optioneering studies, process calculations, mass balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, sketches, basis of design reports, etc.
• Undertake outline or detailed process engineering design.
• Attend site visits for data acquisition and meet site operators.
• Provide technical input to the procurement process.
• Support Project Managers in technical discussions with clients.
• Discuss and liaise with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
• Collaborate with other disciplines on multi‐disciplinary projects to deliver work on time, within cost and quality expectations and to ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Provide input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets.
• Liaise with the client (internal or external) to ensure their needs are met.

Qualifications

• A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc (or equivalent).
• Professional registration as CEng (or working towards Chartership within 12 months).

Skills & 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 sector or industrial sector such as primary treatments, secondary treatments, tertiary treatments (filtration, clarification, chemical dosing, P removal, ASP, MBBR, MBR, and other advanced biological treatments).
• Understanding of circular economy, Zero Liquid Discharge, emerging tertiary treatments both in municipal and industrial sector.
• Experience in a consultancy environment or engineering company or other relevant industry acting as Process Engineer.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits & Development

WSP offers a work‐life balance that includes a hybrid working policy (two days a week from home), the "WSP My Hour" for personal activities, flexible working arrangements, part‐time options and opportunities to purchase additional leave. Employees enjoy a health and wellbeing programme, access to a virtual GP service, gym membership discounts, a comprehensive menopause support package and a culture of continuous development through training, mentoring and Chartership.

EEO Statement

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, 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 any workplace adjustments in support of your application.