Principal Process Engineer

Description

• Provide direction on complex or escalated design challenges, including sourcing external expertise where needed.
• Promote sustainability, climate resilience, and carbon-reduction priorities across all process engineering practices.
• Support early-career development through apprenticeships and graduate programmes, fostering an inclusive, supportive, and high-performing environment.
• Lead the development and implementation of engineering procedures, technical standards, and quality frameworks, embedding a right-first-time approach.
• Mentor and develop Senior Process Engineers, lead discipline meetings, manage competency matrices, and champion professional pathways and qualifications.
• Act as the process engineering authority, providing expert independent advice, arbitration, and governance across the Alliance.
• Champion excellence in health, safety, and welfare, including CDM compliance and process-specific safety (HAZOP, DSEAR) reviews and standards.
• Undertake independent audits of design outputs to ensure quality, compliance, consistency, and adherence to specifications, addressing gaps through training and procedural improvements.
• Support supplier and specialist partner selection through competency assessments, performance monitoring, and framework development.
• Collaborate across Anglian Water and industry bodies to influence and improve standards, processes, and technical approaches.
• Identify, develop, and continuously improve standard products to enhance efficiency, consistency, carbon reduction, and natural capital outcomes.

Requirements

• A degree in Engineering (or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of CDM, HAZOP, DSEAR, and wider health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Significant expertise in shaping engineering procedures, managing quality, and driving consistent discipline-wide excellence.
• Proven ability to lead senior engineers, mentor teams, and support long-term professional development.
• Chartered or Fellow Professional Engineer status.
• Experience in a Design & Build environment is advantageous but not essential.
• Extensive experience within the water sector, particularly process engineering and capital delivery.
• Excellent communication, emotional intelligence, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance