Location
Bristol

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms working across many sectors. We are growing across our business and within the Circular Economy & Waste Advisory team our plan is to enhance and broaden the current service offering. The UK Circular Economy & Waste Advisory team has enjoyed strong and sustainable growth, and our business plan is to continue expanding our impact through enhanced services.

WSP’s Circular Economy & Waste Advisory team provides a broad scope of advisory services relating to the sustainable management of resources and waste. This includes a strong track record of providing technical advice to waste infrastructure schemes, from procurement technical advice to construction supervision. Our team continues to strengthen its market-leading position in procurement support and technical advisory projects.

We are looking to welcome a senior or principal consulting engineer with previous experience providing technical advisory support to waste infrastructure developments.

A little more about your role…
- Lead and provide technical advice relating to waste treatment processes and technologies.
- Manage projects and liaise with clients in the UK and internationally.
- Review process and engineering documents such as P&IDs, PFDs, equipment schedules, design specifications, and mass/energy balances.
- Produce feasibility and scoping studies and undertake technical due diligence assessments to assist clients in making financial investment decisions.
- Produce basis of design documentation and technical specifications.
- Review facilities and technologies and assess compliance with health and safety requirements, legislative requirements, established industry best practice, user requirements, cost budgets and timescales.
- Manage the work of junior engineers and provide coaching and mentoring.
- Ensure cross discipline collaboration with other consultants and engineers, both within WSP and with external clients and contractors.
- Lead and manage internal teams in the production of bids, tenders and project work.

Experience
Degree qualified engineer with broad technical capabilities in process, mechanical, electrical or other engineering fields.
Good knowledge of waste treatment processes and technologies, ideally with hands-on experience.
Experience in managing projects and providing technical advisory support to waste infrastructure developments.
Ability to review technical documentation including P&IDs, PFDs, equipment schedules, and mass/energy balances.
Demonstrable ability to mentor and support the development of junior engineers.
Willingness to travel for project delivery.

About you
Commercially minded technical consultant.
Receptive to new and varied challenges, able to rise to them and learn.
Able to work independently and as part of a project team.
Client-focused and self-motivated.
Excellent interpersonal skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong time management skills with the ability to meet multiple deadlines and manage competing priorities.
Excellent report writing skills.
Ability to communicate concise and accurate technical information in both written and verbal forms.

Qualifications
Degree qualified engineer in a relevant engineering discipline.