Senior Wastewater Process Engineer

WSP in the UK & Ireland; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Thrive wellbeing programme

Gymflex

Chartership support

Training & mentoring

Job summary

WSP in the UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Waste Water Process Engineer to join our Water Engineering teams across multiple UK locations. You will lead process design for wastewater and water reuse projects, from feasibility to detailed design, while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

The role involves site visits, client interactions, and guidance to junior staff, with a flexible two-days-per-week hybrid work arrangement and travel as required.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering process design for municipal water projects.
• Ability to prepare technical reports and P&IDs.
• CEng or working towards Chartership within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Produce process design deliverables such as optioneering studies, calculations, mass balance, and P&IDs.
• Undertake outline or detailed process engineering design.
• Attend site visits for data collection and to meet operators.
• Provide technical input to procurement and supplier proposals.
• Support Project Managers in discussions with clients.

Skills

Process design

Wastewater treatment

FEED

Detailed design

Leadership

Client engagement

Multidisciplinary work

Education

Chemical/Environmental Engineering degree

MSc (or equivalent)

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 clients.
• Engage in discussions and liaison with technology providers and vendors.
• Participate in HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT sessions.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and supervision of junior staff.
• Collaborate with other disciplines on multidisciplinary projects, ensuring delivery to time, cost, and quality expectations and integrating Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Contribute to proposals, work scope, work schedule, and budgets.
• Maintain liaison 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 delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects, including leading the process engineering role on a project or major task.
• Experience in the municipal water industry.
• Ability to work unsupervised in preparing and/or reviewing process design package deliverables such as technical specifications, calculations, reports, datasheets, schedules, process control philosophies, P&IDs, mass balances, and procurement documentation.
• Experience delivering feasibility, concept designs, FEED, and detailed design in wastewater treatment solutions in the municipal sector or industrial sector (primary, secondary, tertiary treatments and advanced biological processes).
• Understanding of circular economy, Zero Liquid Discharge, and emerging tertiary treatments in municipal and industrial sectors.
• Experience in a consultancy, engineering company, or relevant industry acting as Process Engineer.
• Proven ability to prepare high-quality written technical reports and deliver verbal presentations with high assurance for diverse audiences.
• Confident, articulate communicator capable of engaging in professional verbal communications and presentations to colleagues, clients, and subcontractors.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the technical representative with external clients.
• Willingness to travel and visit operational works and construction sites as required, ensuring work is performed safely and effectively.

Benefits

• Work‑life balance: hybrid working policy allowing two days a week from home and flexible arrangements.
• Inclusivity and belonging: diverse and inclusive culture with employee resource groups.
• Health and wellbeing: Thrive programme, virtual GP service, reasonable workplace adjustments, Gymflex scheme, and menopause support package.
• Flex time: WSP My Hour allows one hour each day for personal activities, with flexibility to make up time.
• Personal development: training, mentoring, and Chartership support.

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.