Overview

Join to apply for the Associate Wastewater Process Engineer role at WSP in the UK & Ireland.

Job location: multiple UK locations including Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle or Glasgow. The role is within WSP’s Water Engineering teams and involves working on wastewater and water reuse projects.

What you will do

• Produce process design deliverables such as optioneering studies; process calculations, mass balance, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, sketches, basis of design reports, and other deliverables to achieve the optimum solution for the project.
• Undertake outline or detailed process engineering design.
• Attend site visits for data acquisition and to engage with site operators.
• Provide technical input to the procurement process and support Project Managers in technical discussions with clients.
• Liaise with technology providers and vendors; participate in HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT as required.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and supervision of junior staff.
• Collaborate with other disciplines on multidisciplinary projects to meet time, cost and quality expectations and ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements.
• Contribute to proposals, including work scope, schedule and budgets.
• Maintain liaison with the client 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 for infrastructure projects, including leading a process engineering role on a project or significant task.
• Experience in the municipal water industry.
• Ability to work mainly 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 studies, feasibility, concept designs, FEED and detailed design in wastewater treatment solutions in the municipal or industrial sector (e.g., primary, secondary, tertiary treatments, and advanced biological treatments).
• Understanding of circular economy, Zero Liquid Discharge, and emerging tertiary treatments in municipal and industrial sectors.
• Experience in a consultancy or engineering company environment acting as a Process Engineer.
• Proven ability to prepare high quality written technical reports and deliver verbal presentations to a high standard.
• Confident, articulate communicator with professional verbal communications and presentations to colleagues, clients and sub-contractors.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary meetings and acting as the organisation’s technical representative with external clients;
• Willingness to travel and visit operational works and construction sites to assess process performance, and to work safely.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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About Us

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

What’s in it for you?

Work-life balance: Hybrid working policy offering flexibility to work from home two days a week, with opportunities to collaborate in modern offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Belonging: We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences and support a culture of inclusion and belonging.

Health & Wellbeing: Thrive programme, Virtual GP service, reasonable workplace adjustments, Gymflex discount, and menopause support package.

Flex your time: WSP My Hour for personal activities; part-time and flexible working arrangements; option to purchase additional leave; use of bank holiday entitlement as needed.

Your development: Commitment to development, mentoring, and Chartership support.

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We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of background. We are a Disability Confident leader and will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria; please request workplace adjustments if needed.