Senior Engineer - Process

MWH Treatment; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to join their dynamic team in Exeter or Bristol. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to innovative engineering design services in the water treatment sector. You will be responsible for producing effective design layouts, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and coordinating with various disciplines to enhance project outcomes. The company fosters a culture of customer satisfaction and professional development, making this an ideal position for engineers passionate about making a difference in the field of water and sewage treatment. Join a forward-thinking team and help shape the future of engineering solutions!

Qualifications

• Experience in water treatment and process design is essential.
• Ability to manage and mentor staff in relevant disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Produce cost-effective design layouts and ensure compliance with specifications.
• Coordinate designs across disciplines for contract efficiency.

Skills

Water Treatment Principles

Process Design Experience

Staff Management/Mentoring

Technical Proposal Presentation

Computer Literacy

Driving License

Rationalizing Designs

Environmental Awareness

Education

Relevant Engineering Degree

Relevant Engineering HND

Chartered Engineer Status

Relevant Engineering Master's Degree

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Senior Process Engineer based at either our Exeter or Bristol offices with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Principal Process Engineer and your role will be to provide superior quality Engineering Design services to allow the company to minimise risks and maximise profits on turnkey and engineering services contracts. You will co-ordinate the design and produce design documents and drawings taking due account of health and safety requirements, specifications and standards pertaining to the contract.

Key responsibilities will include:

1. Produce design layouts which are cost effective, meet the requirements of the specification and which can be constructed and commissioned effectively. The term ‘cost’ is to embrace all costs associated with the design and the subsequent construction of the design. To be cost effective the whole out turn cost of the design solution must be considered including design time costs, material costs, erection costs and any impact that the design solution might have on other disciplines.
2. Ensure that standard practices are utilised where ever possible. Maintain competitiveness. Provide estimates and feedback for Proposals department.
3. Work to procedures and processes to ensure the continuing development of the department.
4. Assist in developing procedures and processes. Monitor and review the procedures and processes.
5. Write, update and monitor efficient procedures to aid the smooth running of the department.
6. Ensure co-ordination of designs with all other disciplines internal and external to MWHT in order to ensure that the design processes carried out on the contract are co-ordinated for the benefit of the contract as a whole.
7. Maintain files and records throughout the duration of contracts.
8. Assure customer satisfaction.
9. Work within a culture where satisfying the customer is recognised as the key to achieving other objectives, and that customers include everyone receiving benefit from our processes, whether end users or other departments within the company.
10. Maintain a personal development plan.
11. Assist in supervising and developing staff.
12. Assist in ensuring a safe working environment for all staff.
13. Reduce waste to a minimum from all departmental activities.
14. Ensure designs take account of environmental issues.
15. Ensure that design takes full regard of all health and safety requirements.

Essential:

• Understand the principles of water treatment and have process design experience of these systems.
• Have experience of managing/mentoring members of staff in designing relevant discipline aspects of water and sewage treatment plants.
• Membership of a professional institution chartered or nearing chartership.

Preferable:

• Relevant discipline Engineering degree.

Minimum:

• Relevant discipline Engineering HND.
• Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts.
• Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment, e.g. mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering and project management.
• A flexible mind, with the ability to assimilate large amounts of different data at one time.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincingly.
• Computer literacy.
• Driving license.

Desirable:

• Working towards Chartered Engineer status.
• Hazard Study Experience.
• Relevant Engineering Master's Degree.