Bioresources Process Specialist / Consultant

AtkinsRéalis UK Limited; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis UK Limited is expanding its Bioresources team across the UK with roles ranging from graduates to experienced professionals. The work involves strategic advice, regulatory support, and development of biorefineries and sustainable solutions for the water sector.

The position offers hybrid working across multiple UK offices and flexible arrangements to fit individual requirements, allowing a balanced approach to career and personal life while delivering innovative waste-to-resource

Qualifications

• Experience planning, managing and delivering tasks to challenging deadlines.
• Ability to adapt communication to stakeholders and present technical solutions to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Work within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver excellent results for clients, addressing challenges and converting them into opportunities for bioresources management.
• Analyze bioresources processes and operations, using appropriate tools and techniques to identify improvements in line with client objectives.
• Prepare reports and present to a range of client stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of operational improvement tools, techniques and methods that build capability within our teams.
• Maintain and enhance our regulatory capability.

Skills

Bioresources knowledge

Regulatory expertise

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

Relevant degree in science/environment

Job description

Job Description Overview

At AtkinsRéalis we offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment. The 24/7 business of collecting, treating and safely returning society’s wastewater to the environment inevitably produces residuals that require management, but can also be valuable, renewable resources. We use the term bioresources in the UK to cover the solids extracted from wastewater treatment both untreated (sewage sludge), and after further treatment and stabilisation (biosolids), however, across the world we use the term to cover recovery of a wider range of organic resources from resource-rich solid, gaseous and liquid outputs created by the water sector and adjacent sectors, industry and from similar treatment processes. At AtkinsRéalis, due to significant success in the UK and global bioresources markets, our Bioresources Team is growing exponentially. We are therefore on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals at all levels from recent university graduates to water industry professionals. You’ll be joining an exciting, dynamic team that provides asset management, strategy, regulatory, technical and operational advice to enable our clients to make the right strategic decisions and successfully implement their strategies. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn and grow your career in an area which is undergoing a global transformation in terms of regulatory, technological, and economic change. You could be driving strategic initiatives, business change and innovative thinking to support Net Zero ambitions with our clients, you could be pioneering innovative treatment technologies to ensure our clients stay ahead of the curve, you could be developing biorefineries of the future to unlock the full potential of bioresources or you could be providing regulatory and legislative support to set the direction of bioresources to a more resilient future position. The location of role is flexible across the UK – with hybrid-working supported and with potential offices including Birmingham, Bristol, Epsom, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester and Warrington. We have opportunities for both Bioresources Process Specialists and Consultants to join our team and immediately add value to the clients that we are working with. AtkinsRéalis recognise that there are many well qualified people who are looking to further their career, but who cannot commit to full time employment. We support flexible working arrangements and are interested to discuss how we can accommodate individual requirements. As part of this commitment, we understand the need for a diverse and flexible workforce, where a work-life balance is important. So, by default AtkinsRéalis offers flexible working, where there is no fixed 9 ‘till 5, no need for a 5-day week, no requirement for a full-time contract, and no requirement to spend all your working time in the office.

Your role

As a part of the team, you'll examine, assess and develop ways to increase the value of our client's output for positive real-world outcomes and to deliver innovative, industry leading solutions for Bioresources. You will build upon the company's expertise, developing a wider range of services to meet our clients' needs in the transport, treatment and management of bioresources, helping to define a more sustainable future. This will include working on projects, contributing to bids, developing new business propositions or researching potential new markets. We want you to help us grow our business by:

• Working within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver excellent results for our clients, addressing challenges and converting them into opportunities for Bioresources management.
• Analysing Bioresources processes and operations, using appropriate tools and techniques to identify improvements in accordance with client objectives.
• Preparing reports and presenting to a range of client stakeholders.
• Contributing to the development of operational improvement tools, techniques and methods that build capability within our teams.
• Maintaining and enhancing our regulatory capability.

About you

You may have gained relevant skills within a complementary, but different role and it would be great if you had demonstrable experience working in a technical, strategic, or environmental discipline relevant to the Bioresources sector. Ideally you will have a relevant degree in a scientific or environmental discipline or professional qualification (Process Specialists professional qualification such as CEnv, C.WEM, C.Eng, PIEMA). We are looking to recruit individuals at all stages of their career, with a passion for developing technically and professionally with an interest about the future of the Bioresources sector and the potential it presents.

Qualifications and responsibilities:

• Have experience of planning, managing and delivering tasks to challenging deadlines.
• Have the ability to flex your style to suit different stakeholders, putting forward your views and conversing effectively and presenting technical solutions to non-technical audiences.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We’re committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

We’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

Worker Type and Job Type

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Other capabilities

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.