Senior Process Engineer (Wastewater) - Asset Optimisation

Senior Process Engineer (Wastewater) - Asset Optimisation - Manchester

Job Description
Fabulous opportunity for a Senior Process Engineer to join the Costain Asset Optimisation Team who provide wastewater process engineering consultancy to support our clients across the UK to get the very best from their assets and programmes.
We are an agile technical team of process engineers working within capital delivery frameworks and on the front line with operational teams to develop innovative, practical and digital process solutions.
Our team delivers optimisation studies at feasibility, concept, optioneering and preliminary design stages to mitigate risk, return sites to compliance, or enable low or no build solutions to be provided.
As a Senior Process Engineer, you will;
Provide strategic support to our water sector frameworks to define and shape projects and programmes.
Manage the execution of asset optimisation projects and lead teams to propose, develop, and define process optimisation solutions.
Office location is Manchester but this is a predominantly home - based role with attendance required for site visits, design reviews and client meetings as per business needs.
We also welcome applications from the South and Midlands region for this role.
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Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities

• To execute process optimisation studies and solution triage, with responsibility for quality, budget, and schedule.
• Development of process optimisation initiatives and solutions at both site and programme level.
• Technical thought leadership and strategic consultancy advise to clients and joint venture partners.
• To originate and check process design deliverables such as calculations, drawings, reports, presentations and proposals.
• Mentorship and development of more junior engineers.
• Support troubleshooting and embedding solutions

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential

• Significant UK experience in the design, operation, and optimisation of wastewater treatment plants.
• Knowledge of the UK water utility asset life cycle process.
• Project management experience.
• A background in an engineering consultancy or contracting design environment as well as operational utility experience.
• Ability to independently drive teams and projects.
• Proactive, self-motivated and solutions biased.
• Proven interpersonal skills, collaborate and ability to influence colleagues.

Desirable

• Comprehensive knowledge of the UK Regulatory environment.
• Experience in the full project lifecycle: scoping, outline design, detailed design, construction support commissioning and handover.
• Proven background in process engineering definition including development of mass balance, data analysis, design calculations, technology selection, major equipment and package datasheet specification, process flow diagrams, process control philosophies and P&ID's.
• Excellent commercial awareness and business development skills
• Experience of large, activated sludge plant design and or membrane treatment processes

Qualifications
Essential

• A degree qualification in a process related discipline.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer and member of a relevant engineering institution e.g. CIWEM, IChemE.
• Post Graduate Qualification

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