Location
Manchester (predominantly home-based role with attendance required for site visits, design reviews and client meetings as per business needs). Applications from the South and Midlands region are also welcome.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Fabulous opportunity for a Senior Process Engineer to join the Costain Asset Optimisation Team, providing wastewater process engineering consultancy to support clients across the UK in maximising the performance of their assets and programmes. The team is an agile group of process engineers working within capital delivery frameworks and alongside operational teams to develop innovative, practical, and digital process solutions. The role involves delivering optimisation studies at feasibility, concept, optioneering, and preliminary design stages to mitigate risk, return sites to compliance, or enable low or no build solutions.

As a Senior Process Engineer, you will provide strategic support to water sector frameworks to define and shape projects and programmes. You will manage the execution of asset optimisation projects and lead teams to propose, develop, and define process optimisation solutions. This role requires a proactive approach to driving projects and teams, delivering high-quality outcomes within budget and schedule.

Responsibilities
- Execute process optimisation studies and solution triage with responsibility for quality, budget, and schedule
- Develop process optimisation initiatives and solutions at both site and programme level
- Provide technical thought leadership and strategic consultancy advice to clients and joint venture partners
- Originate and check process design deliverables such as calculations, drawings, reports, presentations, and proposals
- Mentor and develop more junior engineers
- Support troubleshooting and embedding of solutions

Experience
- Significant UK experience in the design, operation, and optimisation of wastewater treatment plants
- Knowledge of the UK water utility asset life cycle process
- Project management experience
- Background in engineering consultancy or contracting design environment as well as operational utility experience
- Ability to independently drive teams and projects
- Proven interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and influence colleagues
- Proactive, self-motivated, and solutions biased

Desirable Experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of the UK regulatory environment
- Experience across the full project lifecycle: scoping, outline design, detailed design, construction support, commissioning, and handover
- Proven background in process engineering definition including mass balance development, data analysis, design calculations, technology selection, major equipment and package datasheet specification, process flow diagrams, process control philosophies, and P&ID’s
- Excellent commercial awareness and business development skills
- Experience of large activated sludge plant design and/or membrane treatment processes

Qualifications
- Essential: Degree qualification in a process related discipline
- Desirable: Chartered Engineer status and membership of a relevant engineering institution (e.g. CIWEM, IChemE)
- Post Graduate Qualification