Senior/Principal Process Engineering Consultant (Energy Transition)

Location: Flexible across the UK office network. Join WSP's Energy Transition Process team to develop innovative process plant designs for energy projects including conventional power, carbon capture, hydrogen generation and transport, gas networks, energy from waste plants and industrial facilities. You will lead a multidisciplinary team delivering projects at various stages of maturity.

In this role, you will be part of the Energy Transition Process team developing innovative solutions to complex problems, delivering projects at various stages of maturity. Working as part of a large multidisciplinary engineering group, you will oversee the development of process plant designs on a wide range of energy projects, including conventional power plants, carbon capture schemes, hydrogen generation and transport, gas networks, energy from waste plants, and industrial facilities.

This is an ideal role if you have exposure in the delivery of concept, FEED, and detail design work and are familiar with working for an OEM, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor, or a similar organisation. Your experience of working in operations and maintenance (O&M) and understanding of asset integrity processes and procedures would be advantageous in helping us support our clients with technical advice on their existing facilities and operational plant.

Location is flexible across our UK office network.

Responsibilities

• Leading the Process engineering team on projects to deliver technically excellent solutions to our clients across a broad portfolio of projects.
• Work on projects in a variety of stages of maturity, including feasibility studies, concept designs, FEED Studies, value engineering and detailed design. There will be opportunities for site work during project development, construction and commissioning.
• Prepare process models / calculations, process datasheets, heat and mass balances, process flow diagrams, piping & instrumentation drawings and process philosophies.
• Generate and maintain internal tools and calculations.
• Providing visible technical and team leadership and governance.
• Developing designs and approaches that clearly differentiate WSP from our competitors.
• Promote and lead innovation across the team and the application of engineering principles to first of a kind projects.
• Working collaboratively with other groups within WSP and maximising cross-selling opportunities.
• Support business leadership in the preparation and review of key bids, provide input into pricing strategy.
• Identification of skills gaps and recruitment of technical staff.
• Maintaining and developing processes and procedure to ensure efficient delivery of design.
• Support and ensure the integration of UK wide best practice i.e. BMS, SHEQ.
• Interface with GCC and promote its effective use within the region.

Your Team

Our Energy Transition team covers all generation and conversion technologies including novel, first of a kind concepts and other low or zero carbon technology. Working together with private developers, power utilities, government bodies, banks and OEMs, we safely deliver projects whilst meeting and exceeding client expectations.

Our teams are placed in the UK, India, Ireland and wider Europe. We work internationally with our clients and other Energy sector teams in North America, Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia.

The Energy Transition team provides services to clients from inception through development, construction, operation, and decommissioning, supporting our clients over the entire lifecycle of a project.

We\'d Love To Hear From You If You Have

• Must have Degree in relevant Engineering subject (Chemical Engineering degree preferred);
• Chartered Chemical Engineer and Member of relevant Engineering Institute;
• Significant post graduate experience in process design;
• The ability and desire to assume a lead role in the development of process deliverables;
• Knowledge of design and construction of power and energy projects, ideally including low or zero carbon technologies and gasification;
• Proven understanding of the design process and ability to demonstrate working knowledge of brief/scope documents, design concepts as well as experienced in producing calculations;
• Experience of working with process design software packages such as Thermoflow, Aspen Hysys, UniSim etc.;
• Experience of working with clients and contractors with a diverse range of objectives in achieving a technical solution.

We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences, and we will review alignment with other opportunities within the team.

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?

Benefits

• Work-life balance with a hybrid working policy offering flexibility to work from home two days a week and collaborate in modern offices across the UK.
• Inclusivity and belonging that welcomes applicants from varied backgrounds and experiences.
• Health and wellbeing support, including Thrive programme and Virtual GP access.
• Flexible time with the WSP My Hour policy to take one hour each day for personal activities.
• Part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and use of bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
• Development opportunities through training, mentoring, and Chartership.

#WeAreWSP We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified 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 and will provide reasonable workplace adjustments on request.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Professional Services