Senior Process Engineer - Water (Engineering and Design)

Costain Group PLC; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to enhance wastewater treatment solutions across the UK. This pivotal role involves leading optimisation projects, collaborating with operational teams, and providing strategic consultancy to clients. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in wastewater treatment design and project management, ensuring compliance and innovative solutions. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to improving infrastructure and making a tangible impact on environmental sustainability. If you're passionate about engineering and looking for a challenging yet rewarding opportunity, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in design, operation, and optimisation of wastewater treatment plants.
• Ability to drive teams and projects independently.

Responsibilities

• Lead optimisation studies with accountability for quality and budget.
• Provide strategic consultancy to clients and partners.

Skills

Proven experience in wastewater treatment plants

Knowledge of UK water utility asset life cycle

Project management

Strong interpersonal skills

Education

Degree in process related discipline

Chartered Engineer

Job description

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Job Description

The Costain Asset Optimisation Team provides

Job Description

The Costain Asset Optimisation Team provides wastewater process engineering consultancy to support our clients across the UK to get the very best from their assets and programmes. We are an agile technical team of process engineers working on the front line with operational teams to develop innovative practical and digital process solutions. Our team delivers optimisation studies at feasibility, concept, optioneering and preliminary design stages to mitigate risk, return sites to compliance, or enable low or no build solutions to be provided.

Currently, we have a surge in engineering and design workload in the water sector and are actively recruiting for a Senior Process Engineer to support AMP8 for clients including United Utilities, Severn Trent Water, Southern Water, Thames Water and Northumbrian Water.

As a Senior Process Engineer, you will provide strategic support our frameworks to define and shape water projects and programmes as well manage the execution of asset optimisation projects and lead teams to propose, develop, and define process optimisation solutions.

Responsibilities

To lead teams to execute optimisation studies, with accountability for quality, budget, and schedule.

Development of process optimisation, initiatives, and solutions at both site and programme level.

Technical thought leadership and strategic consultancy advise to clients and joint venture partners.

Work collaboratively with business development, work winning and marketing functions to develop and tender new opportunities.

Approval of process design calculations, reports, presentations and proposals.

Grow our team capability and service to our AMP Frameworks

Qualifications

Essential

Proven and significant experience in the design, operation, and optimisation of wastewater treatment plants.

Knowledge of the UK water utility asset life cycle process.

Project management experience.

A background in an engineering consultancy or contracting design environment as well as operational utility experience.

Ability to independently drive teams and projects.

Proactive, self-motivated and solutions biased.

Strong interpersonal skills, collaborate and ability to influence senior colleagues.

Desirable

Comprehensive knowledge of the UK Regulatory environment.

Experience in the full project life cycle: scoping, outline design, detailed design, construction support commissioning and handover.

Proven background in process engineering definition including development of mass balance, data analysis, design calculations, technology selection, major equipment and package datasheet specification, process flow diagrams, process control philosophies and P&ID’s.

Excellent commercial awareness and business development skills

Essential

A degree qualification in a process related discipline.

Desirable

Chartered Engineer and member of a relevant engineering institution e.g. CIWEM, IChemE.

Post Graduate Qualification

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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