Location
Leeds

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. A little more about your role… As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Wastewater Process Engineer to join our Water Engineering team located in Leeds. 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. These projects include 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. As an experienced Wastewater Process Engineer, 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:
- 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 meeting site operators.
- Provide technical input to the procurement process.
- Support Project Managers in technical discussions with clients.
- Liaise with technology providers and vendors.
- Participate in HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT meetings.
- Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
- Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multi-disciplinary projects delivering work to time, cost and quality expectations and ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
- Provide input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets.
- Liaise with clients (internal or external) ensuring 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 and tertiary treatments (filtration, clarification, chemical dosing, phosphorus 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 a variety of audiences. Confident, articulate communicator able to engage professionally with 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, acting safely and assessing process performance.

About you
Confident and professional communicator with strong technical knowledge. Motivated to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. Willingness to travel and engage with site operations. Able to provide technical leadership and coaching to junior staff. Proactive and adaptable with a commitment to delivering high quality engineering solutions.

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