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Principal / Associate Wastewater Process Engineer

WSP senior full-time

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Description

As a Principal / Associate Wastewater Process Engineer at WSP, you will play a key role in delivering process engineering design content on various water engineering projects across the UK and overseas.

Working within multidisciplinary project design teams, you will contribute to projects from feasibility and optioneering through to detailed designs for procurement and construction.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Producing process design deliverables such as optioneering studies, process calculations, and piping and instrumentation drawings
  • Undertaking outline or detailed process engineering design
  • Attending site visits for data acquisition and meeting site operators
  • Providing technical input to the procurement process
  • Supporting project managers in technical discussions with clients
  • Liaising with technology providers and vendors
  • Participating in HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, and SWIFT meetings
  • Providing technical guidance and supervision to junior staff
  • Collaborating with other disciplines on multidisciplinary projects
  • Providing input to proposals, work scope, work schedule, and budgets
  • Liaising with clients to ensure their needs are met

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Significant experience in delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects
  • Experience in the municipal water industry
  • Ability to work mainly unsupervised in preparing and reviewing process design package deliverables
  • Experience delivering studies, feasibility, concept designs, FEED, and detail design in wastewater treatment solutions
  • Understanding of circular economy, Zero Liquid Discharge, and emerging tertiary treatments
  • Experience in a consultancy environment or engineering company
  • Proven ability to prepare high-quality written technical reports and deliver verbal presentations
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary meetings and acting as a technical representative with external clients
  • Ability to travel and visit operational works and construction sites as required

Skills

Required

  • process engineering
  • wastewater treatment
  • water engineering
  • project design
  • procurement
  • technical guidance

Nice to have

  • circular economy
  • Zero Liquid Discharge
  • tertiary treatments
  • consultancy environment
  • engineering company

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