Senior Process Engineer

Balfour Beatty plc; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to lead water treatment and supply projects, ensuring compliance with legislation and quality standards. The role offers the opportunity to spearhead innovation in the water sector and coach junior engineers in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Smart working with remote options

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Chartered status or pursuit preferred.
• Proven experience in water-sector assets or capital projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for water treatment and supply projects.
• Review and approve process design deliverables.
• Coach junior engineers.

Skills

Sustainable design

Mentoring

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Engineering

Chartered status or pursuit thereof

Job description

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About The Role

Senior Process Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

About The Role

Senior Process Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Peterborough

@one Alliance a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and seven industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we embark on AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we are preparing to deliver our largest and most innovative project to date. This is a unique chance to lead industry transformation, set new global standards, and accelerate your career growth.

We’re seeking a talented Senior Process Engineer ready to drive bold, creative solutions and help us exceed our ambitious targets.

As Senior Process Engineer, you will lead the technical direction for water treatment and supply projects, ensuring all designs comply with current legislation and standards. You will provide expert design support across multiple schemes and work closely with stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver value-driven, fit-for-purpose solutions—on time, within budget, and at the highest quality.

You will also review and approve process design deliverables, enforce adherence to procedures, and mentor junior engineers to foster continuous development.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Design Managers to plan and review upcoming projects and milestones.
• Coach and mentor junior process engineers, promoting growth and excellence.
• Champion sustainable, low-carbon design principles across all projects.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant process standards, regulations, and Anglian Water requirements.
• Review and verify Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams, 3D models, mass balance, sizing, and hydraulic calculations.
• Validate critical process documentation, including design bases, flow diagrams, control philosophies, and commissioning strategies.
• Identify and communicate design lessons learned and develop alerts for continuous improvement.
• Support the technical management of @one Alliance frameworks.
• Conduct site visits as necessary to inform design and delivery.
• Share technical insights and lessons learned across the alliance to drive innovation.
• Embrace and implement new digital technologies to achieve fully attributed 3D models.
• Promote carbon reduction and enhance natural capital within design practices.
• Maintain and share up-to-date portfolio knowledge across the process engineering team.
  
  

Who we're looking for

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience demonstrating degree-level knowledge.
• Chartered status or active pursuit thereof is preferred.
• Proven experience in water-sector assets, capital projects, or design-build environments.
• Strong track record mentoring and developing junior engineers.
• A passion for sustainable design and innovation.
  
  

If you’re an ambitious Senior Process Engineer eager to make a tangible impact on one of the UK’s most significant water infrastructure programmes, we want to hear from you.

Apply now to join @one Alliance and help shape the future of water engineering.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
  
  

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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