Principal Process Engineer

FYBA Talent; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the UK seeks a Principal Engineer to join their Engineering Design Team. The role involves delivering high-quality discipline design, managing senior engineers, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. Ideal candidates should have expertise in water and wastewater projects, a degree in Engineering, and a preference for Chartered Membership in a professional body. The position offers flexibility, innovation, and mentorship opportunities while contributing to impactful projects.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Flexible working arrangements

Annual pay review and discretionary bonus

Cycle to Work schemes

Private medical scheme options

Qualifications

• Expert in liaising with clients and supply chains for process solutions.
• Knowledge of current H&S legislation and British Standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure technical compliance and excellence on projects.
• Drive teams to produce efficient designs balancing costs.
• Champion lessons learnt on projects for future improvements.

Skills

Technical compliance

Process Calculations

Mass Balances

Heat Balances

Hydraulic Calculations

Multi-disciplinary engineering design

HAZOP leadership

DSEAR experience

Commercial awareness

Education

Degree in Engineering or equivalent

Chartered Member of a recognised professional body

Job description

Locations: North-West, North Midlands, Bristol, or Scotland

About Us

One of the UK's leading construction businesses, known for delivering projects that create lasting, positive impact in the communities they serve. As a FTSE 250 company with a £1.9 billion turnover and a workforce of more than 3,500 across its Building, Infrastructure and Specialist Services divisions, it offers both stability and the chance to work on some of the country's most exciting schemes. Joining the business means becoming part of diverse, highly professional teams who bring strong commitment and expertise, giving you the platform to grow, stretch your capabilities and achieve long-term career ambitions.

Purpose Of The Role

As a Principal Engineer, you'll play a key role within the Engineering Design Team, working with Discipline Managers, Design Managers and Design Leads to deliver high-quality discipline design in line with processes, the BMS and H&S regulations. You'll bring strong technical expertise across water and wastewater projects, providing direction on complex design work and, where required, managing senior engineers and others. Alongside driving innovation, you'll lead engineering governance for your discipline, ensure integration with other design activities, support supply chain procurement and assist site teams. You'll also help the Discipline Manager with knowledge sharing, training and development of the team, including mentoring early-career engineers.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure technical compliance and excellence on projects. Default approver for design outputs to ensure technical assurance and quality control.
• Seek optimal solutions and drive our teams to produce efficient designs that balance capital and operational cost benefits.
• Assist, or operate as, the Principal Designer Lead in ensuring CDM regulations compliance.
• Ensure design for buildability, safe construction, and operation, working alongside project delivery peers.
• Ensure procedural governance is adhered to.
• Working as part of the Design team to ensure scheme designs adhere to client specifications and standards.
• Working as part of the Design team to ensure full compliance with relevant Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation.
• Technical problem solving throughout the project life cycle (e.g. from concept design through to final construction support), moreover, to ensure that potential issues are identified, mitigated and or safely managed through technical governance and risk and opportunity management.
• Champion of lessons learnt on projects, covering good and bad to feedback to be promoted or avoided on future schemes.
• Line Management of multi-disciplinary Senior Design Engineers.
• Developing and supporting staff to encourage them towards accreditation with professional bodies (e.g. IChemE).

Person Specifics

• Expert at liaising with client and supply chain to establish and develop best process solutions.
• Expert in carrying out Process Calculations, Mass Balances, Heat Balances and Hydraulic Calculations.
• Expert at preparing Process Block Diagrams, PFDs and P&IDs.
• Expert at developing Process Control Philosophies and Process Commissioning Plans.
• HAZOP leadership experience preferable.
• DSEAR experience preferable.
• Educated to Degree level in Engineering or other equivalent qualification.
• Strong preference for Chartered Member of a recognised professional Engineering body.
• Expert in a contracting / consulting environment, with commercial awareness.
• Excellent knowledge of multi-disciplinary engineering design in water engineering.
• Expert with strong experience in checking & approving discipline design packages.
• Knowledge of current H&S legislation and British Standards and experience in applying them across designs.

Our benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• Enrolled into our car benefit scheme - which depending on the role includes company car or car allowance
• Agile working policy (flexible home working arrangements)
• Annual pay review and discretionary bonus
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role