Location
Newcastle upon Tyne (also opportunities in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could shape a career as unique as you? At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons. As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Associate Wastewater Process Engineer to join our Water Engineering teams. Working within various multidisciplinary project design teams, you will take a key role in delivering process engineering design content on a range of challenging water engineering projects, including wastewater and water reuse projects throughout the UK and overseas. You will contribute to project design from feasibility and optioneering through to detailed designs for procurement and construction, as well as review supplier proposals. 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:
- Producing process design deliverables such as optioneering studies, process calculations, mass balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, sketches, and basis of design reports to achieve optimum project solutions.
- Undertaking outline or detailed process engineering design.
- Attending site visits for data acquisition and meeting site operators.
- Providing technical input to the procurement process.
- Supporting Project Managers in technical discussions with clients.
- Liaising with technology providers and vendors.
- Attending HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
- Providing technical guidance, coaching, and supervision of junior staff.
- Collaborating with other disciplines on multi-disciplinary projects to deliver work on time, within cost and quality expectations, ensuring integration of process engineering design requirements.
- Contributing to proposals, work scopes, schedules, and budgets.
- Liaising with clients (internal or external) to ensure their needs are met.

Experience
- Significant experience delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects, including leading process engineering roles on projects or significant tasks.
- Experience in the municipal water industry.
- Ability to work mainly unsupervised preparing and/or reviewing 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 detailed design in wastewater treatment solutions in municipal or industrial sectors, including primary, secondary, 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 in municipal and industrial sectors.
- Experience in consultancy, engineering companies, or relevant industries acting as Process Engineer.
- Proven ability to prepare high-quality written technical reports and deliver verbal presentations to various audiences.
- Confident, articulate communicator able to engage professionally with colleagues, clients, and subcontractors.
- 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 safely to assess existing and new process performance.

About you
- Proactive and self-motivated with strong technical expertise.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Committed to delivering high-quality engineering solutions.
- Willingness to learn and adapt in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications
- Relevant engineering degree or equivalent qualification.
- Professional registration or working towards chartered status is desirable but not essential.
- Continuous professional development mindset.