Process Senior Design Engineer

Galliford Try; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday entitlement

Agile working policy

Comprehensive pension plan

Private medical scheme options

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Process Senior Design Engineer to ensure the highest quality in design outputs for water and wastewater projects. Located across various sites in England, this full-time position involves leading design efforts, mentoring young engineers, and adhering to health and safety regulations. Ideal candidates will possess strong process calculations skills and a degree in engineering, while also being aligned with the company's values of excellence and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in engineering or equivalent qualification.
• Preferred to be a chartered member of a recognised professional engineering body.
• Strong experience in checking and approving discipline design packages.

Responsibilities

• Deliver design to the highest quality and in compliance with regulations.
• Lead discipline for a project ensuring efficient designs.
• Mentor and develop staff towards professional accreditation.

Skills

Process calculations

Mass balances

Hydraulic calculations

Process control philosophies

Leadership skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Degree in engineering

Chartered engineer status

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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Location can be based from: Warrington, Nottingham, Bristol, Plymouth, Grangemouth

About Us

Galliford Try is one of the UK’s most formidable construction businesses with an enviable track record of delivering schemes that strive to provide positive, lasting change for the communities we work in. As a FTSE 250 organisation, we turnover £1.9 billion and employ over 3,500 people across three divisions: Building, Infrastructure and Specialist Services. As one of the UK’s top principal contractors you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects, offering stability and the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long‑held career goals.

Our Environment Business

We are the largest Tier 1 Contractor operating in the UK water/environment sector with a long‑term portfolio trading £500 million a year. As part of our 2030 strategy we have united all aspects of engineering design under one business unit to provide in‑house design support to our regional business units across the UK.

Purpose of the Role

As Senior Design Engineer you will be an important member of the Engineering Design Team and will work with principal engineers, design managers and design leads to deliver design to the highest quality and in compliance with the BMS and H&S regulations. In this technical role you will have tactical responsibility for the design of water and wastewater projects, and may have line‑management responsibility for design engineers.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide technical compliance and quality on design outputs.
• Operate as discipline lead for a project.
• Seek optimal solutions/efficient designs that balance capital and operational cost benefits.
• Design for buildability, safe construction, and operation.
• Assist in ensuring procedural governance is adhered to.
• Ensure scheme designs adhere to client specifications and standards.
• Ensure full compliance with relevant health, safety and environmental legislation.
• Promote innovation, value engineering and digital design.
• Technical problem solving throughout the project life cycle.
• Assist with pre‑contract design activities.
• Provide lessons learned on projects to the design team and discipline design managers.
• Line‑manage multidisciplinary design engineers.
• Share and impart knowledge, mentoring and developing staff.
• Support staff towards accreditation with professional bodies such as ICE, IET, IMechE, IChemE.

Person Specifics

• Competent at carrying out process calculations, mass balances, heat balances and hydraulic calculations.
• Competent at preparing process block diagrams, PFDs and P&IDs.
• Competent at developing process control philosophies and commissioning plans.
• HAZOP leadership experience desirable.
• DSEAR experience desirable.
• Educated to degree level in engineering or equivalent qualification.
• Preferred to be a chartered member of a recognised professional engineering body.
• Competent in a contracting/consulting environment with commercial awareness.
• Strong experience in checking and approving discipline design packages.
• Knowledge of current H&S legislation and British Standards and experience applying them across designs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent IT skills – Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, cost/performance management systems.
• Provide leadership, direction and encouragement to the design team.
• Focus on driving and delivering results.
• Attention to detail.
• Alignment with Galliford Try values – excellence, passion, integrity, collaboration.
• Flexible attitude to work.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• Willingness and commitment to embrace innovations.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload to meet timescales.
• Take responsibility for personal development and support learning of others.
• Good negotiation and persuading skills.
• Able to work collaboratively and independently.
• Demonstrate pride in work and lead by example.

What We Can Offer in Return

We have an impressive order book of over £3.8 billion and offer stability, growth and the chance to realise career goals. We support physical and mental wellbeing through our ‘Be Well’ programme, invest in training, and provide agile working options to suit your needs.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service and purchase option.
• Car benefit scheme – company car or allowance depending on the role.
• Agile working policy (flexible home working).
• Annual pay review and discretionary bonus.
• Wide range of corporate discounts.
• Cycle to Work schemes.
• Comprehensive pension plan.
• Save as You Earn share purchase scheme.
• Private medical scheme options for all salaried employees.
• Employee assistance programme with free 24/7 support.
• Paid membership to a recognised professional association relevant to your role.

For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions within our Environment business, please contact Adam Wright at [e-mail].

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Construction, Civil Engineering, and Utilities