Senior Associate Process Engineer

Description

• Provide strategic leadership and technical direction across feasibility, concept, preliminary, and detailed design stages for water and wastewater treatment projects
• Collaborate with resource managers to shape team capability, support recruitment, and lead training initiatives
• Contribute to setting and challenging technical standards, ensuring adoption of best practice and emerging technologies
• Author and review high-quality technical reports, proposals, and presentations for senior stakeholders and clients
• Mentor and develop technical teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
• Drive optimisation initiatives by analysing operational data and applying advanced process modelling and simulation techniques
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, building strong relationships and influencing decision-making
• Champion quality assurance by checking and approving process deliverables
• Oversee and approve process designs, including block flow diagrams, P&IDs, mass balances, and equipment sizing, ensuring technical excellence and compliance
• Play a key role in business development by guiding proposals, tenders, and strategic pursuits in the water and wastewater sector

Requirements

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status with a recognised professional institution
• Extensive experience in municipal water and/or wastewater treatment, including leadership of complex projects
• Exceptional technical writing and communication skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders
• Deep understanding of conventional and emerging treatment technologies
• Demonstrated leadership in reviewing technical deliverables and ensuring compliance
• Strong track record in developing and delivering feasibility, outline, and detailed process designs
• Degree in Chemical Engineering or a related discipline
• Proven ability to conduct root-cause analysis and deliver optimisation strategies
• Active contributor to technical knowledge networks and advocate for best practice
• Strategic mindset with experience in business development and client engagement

Benefits

• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.

Training + Development

Interview process

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