Senior Process Design Engineer – Water Innovation Lead

Galliford Try Group; Warrington; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday entitlement

Company car or car allowance

Agile working policy (flexible home/"3

Annual pay review and discretionary/"}

Corporate discounts

Cycle to Work schemes

Comprehensive pension plan

Save as You Earn share purchase scheme

Private medical scheme options

Professional association membership

Job summary

Galliford Try Group is seeking a Process Senior Design Engineer (Drinking Water biased) to lead design delivery across water projects. You will drive technical quality, supervise multi‑discipline design teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring governance and H&S compliance.

You will apply process engineering fundamentals to deliver robust schemes and support pre-contract activities. The role requires strong collaboration with clients and internal teams.

Qualifications

• 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 Process Commissioning Plans.
• HAZOP leadership experience desirable.
• DSEAR experience desirable.
• Educated to Degree level in Engineering or other equivalent qualification.
• Preference for Chartered Member of a recognised professional Engineering body.
• Competent in a contracting / consulting environment, with commercial awareness.
• Competent 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.
• Excellent Communication and Stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent IT skills – with experience of using Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Cost / Performance management systems.
• Provide leadership, direction and encouragement to the design team.
• Focus to drive and deliver results.
• Attention to detail.
• Alignment with the Galliford Try values - Excellence, Passion, Integrity, and Collaboration.
• A flexible attitude to work.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Willingness and commitment to embrace innovations to assist the business.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload to ensure that timescales are met.
• Take responsibility for personal development and enable and support the learning of others.
• Good negotiation and persuading skills.
• Able to work collaboratively with others to form strong positive working relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Able to recognise own impact on others and adapt approach where appropriate.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrate pride in work, leading by example.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical compliance and quality on design outputs. Default checker for design outputs to ensure technical assurance and quality control.
• 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, working alongside project delivery peers.
• Assist in ensuring 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.
• Promoting innovation, value engineering and digital design.
• Technical problem solving throughout the project life cycle (e.g. from concept design through to final construction support) to identify and mitigate issues.
• Assist with pre-contract design activities.
• Provide lessons learnt on projects to the Design Team and Discipline Design Manager(s).
• Line Management of multi-disciplinary Design Engineers.
• Sharing and imparting knowledge to our teams; mentor and develop our expanding design team.
• Developing and supporting staff to achieve accreditation with professional bodies (e.g., ICE, IET, IMechE, IChemE).

Skills

Process Calculations

Mass Balances

Heat Balances

Hydraulic Calculations

PFDs & P&IDs

Process Control Philosophies

HAZOP leadership

DSEAR experience

Engineering degree

Chartered engineer

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Excel / Office tools

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer

Tools

Excel

Outlook

PowerPoint

Cost/Performance management systems

Job description

Galliford Try Group is seeking a Process Senior Design Engineer (Drinking Water biased) to lead design delivery across water projects. You will drive technical quality, supervise multi‑discipline design teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring governance and H&S compliance.

You will apply process engineering fundamentals to deliver robust schemes and support pre-contract activities. The role requires strong collaboration with clients and internal teams.