Senior Wastewater Process Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

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About Your Role

As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Waste Water Process Engineer to join our Water Engineering teams. 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, including wastewater 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.

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.
• Undertake outline or detailed process engineering design.
• Attend site visits for data acquisition and to meet site operators.
• Provide technical input to the procurement process.
• Support Project Managers in technical discussions with our clients.
• Discuss and liaise with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multidisciplinary projects to deliver work to time, 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 that their needs are met.

Qualifications and Experience

• A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc (or equivalent).
• Professional registration as CEng (or working towards chartership within 12 months).
• Significant experience in delivering process engineering design for infrastructure projects, including taking the lead role on a project or significant task.
• Experience in the municipal water industry.
• 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 and 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’s technical representative with external clients.
• Ability 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.

We Encourage Applications From All Qualified and Eligible Candidates

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.