Senior Wastewater Process Engineer

WSP in the UK & Ireland; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Access to virtual GP services

Training and mentoring opportunities

Job summary

WSP in the UK & Ireland is looking for an experienced Senior Waste Water Process Engineer to join their Water Engineering teams across various locations, including Manchester. The role involves delivering process engineering design for water and wastewater reuse projects throughout the UK and internationally.

Key responsibilities include producing detailed design deliverables, supporting project managers, and liaising with clients. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Chemical or Environmental Engineering and significant experience in the municipal water industry.

The company offers a supportive work culture, flexibility to work from home, and various health and wellbeing benefits.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in delivering process engineering design for infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to prepare high quality technical reports and presentations.
• Experience in waste water treatment solutions in municipal or industrial sectors.

Responsibilities

• Produce process design deliverables for wastewater projects.
• Attend site visits for data acquisition and meet site operators.
• Provide technical input to procurement processes and client discussions.

Skills

Process engineering design

Municipal water industry

Technical report preparation

Regulatory compliance

Communication skills

Education

Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc

Professional registration as CEng or working towards it

Job description

Job Description

As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Waste Water Process Engineer to join our Water Engineering teams located in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow.

Working within various multidisciplinary project design teams, you will take a key role in the delivery of the process engineering design content on a range of challenging projects in water engineering. These projects include wastewater and water reuse projects throughout the UK and overseas. You will contribute to the project design from feasibility and optioneering through to the production of detailed designs for procurement and construction and review of supplier proposals.

As an experienced Waste Water Process Engineer, you will work within project teams helping us deliver effective and professional services for a range of varied and high‑profile clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce Process Design deliverables such as optioneering studies; process calculations, mass balance, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, sketches, basis of design reports, etc, to achieve the optimum solution for the project.
• Undertake outline or detailed process engineering design.
• Attend site visits for data acquisition and meet site operators.
• Provide technical input to the procurement process.
• Support Project Managers in technical discussions with our clients.
• Engage in discussions and liaise with technology providers and vendors.
• Attend HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID and SWIFT meetings.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines on multidisciplinary projects, delivering work on time, at cost and to quality expectations and ensuring integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Provide input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets.
• Liaise with the client (internal or external) to ensure their needs are met.

Qualifications

• A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc (or equivalent).
• Professional registration as CEng (or working towards Chartership within 12 months).

Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects, including taking the lead process engineering role on a project or significant task.
• Experience in the municipal water industry.
• The ability to work mainly unsupervised in the preparation and/or review of process design package deliverables such as technical specifications, calculations, reports, datasheets, schedules, process control philosophies, P&IDs, mass balances and procurement documentation.
• Experience delivering studies, feasibility, concept designs, FEED and detail design in waste water treatment solutions in the municipal sector or industrial sector such as primary treatments, secondary treatments, tertiary treatments (filtration, clarification, chemical dosing, P removal, ASP, MBBR, MBR, and other advanced biological treatments).
• Understanding of circular economy, Zero Liquid Discharge, emerging tertiary treatments in both municipal and industrial sectors.
• Experience in a consultancy environment or engineering company or other relevant industry acting as Process Engineer.
• Proven ability to prepare high quality written technical reports and deliver verbal presentations to a high level of quality assurance for a variety of audiences.
• Confident, articulate communicator with the ability to engage in active, professional verbal communications and presentations to colleagues (including senior colleagues), clients and sub‑contractors.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the organisational technical representative with external clients.
• Be able to travel and visit operational works and construction sites as required, to act in a safe manner, and to assess existing and new process performance.

Benefits

• Work‑life balance: flexiblity to work from home two days a week and collaboration in modern offices across the UK.
• Inclusive & belonging culture: support for all backgrounds and authentic selves.
• Health & wellbeing: access to virtual GP service, comprehensive benefits, and flexible physical wellbeing options.
• Flex your time: daily personal hour and flexible working arrangements.
• Development opportunities: training, mentoring and support for chartership.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.