Principal Engineer - Process

Job Description

Key responsibilities include:

• Produce Process Design deliverables such as: optioneering studies; process calculations, mass balance, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation drawings, sketches, basis of design reports to achieve the optimum solution for the project.
• Undertaking outline or detailed process engineering design
• Attending site visits for data acquisition and meeting site operators
• To provide technical input to the procurement process
• Supporting Project Managers in technical discussions with our clients
• Discussions and liaison with technology providers and vendors
• HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, SWIFT attendance
• Providing technical guidance, coaching and technical supervision of junior staff
• Working collaboratively with other disciplines on multi-disciplinary projects delivering work to time, cost and quality expectations and to ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• Providing input to proposals, work scope, work schedule and budgets
• Liaison with the Client (internal or external) ensuring that their needs are met

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

• A Chemical or Environmental Engineering degree or MSc
• Professional registration as CEng (or working towards Chartership within 12 months)

• Significant experience in delivering process engineering design aspects of infrastructure projects, including taking the lead process engineering role on a project or significant task.
• Experience in the municipal water industry.
• The ability to work mainly unsupervised in the preparation and/or review of process design package deliverables such as technical specifications, calculations, reports, datasheets, schedules, process control philosophies, P&IDs, mass balances and procurement documentation.
• Experience delivering optioneering studies and feasibility, concept designs and/or detail design in municipal clean water treatment solutions including
• Clarification (bottom hooper)
• DAF
• Rapid Gravity Filtration
• Disinfection
• Taste & Odour/Pesticides Removal
• Chemical Dosing
• Previous experience in a consultancy environment or engineering company or other relevant industry acting as Process Engineer.
• Exceptional time management skills, including the ability to manage/deliver several projects at once.
• Proven ability to prepare high quality written technical reports and deliver verbal presentations to a high level of quality assurance for a variety of audiences.
• Confident, articulate communicator with ability to engage in active, professional verbal communications and presentations to colleagues (including senior colleagues), clients and sub-contractors.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary meetings (online and face to face) and acting as the organisation technical representative with external clients;
• The ability to work accurately and flexibly, integrating your work with other discipline areas whilst managing your own /your team's work to tight programme and budget constraints.
• Be able to travel and visit operational works and construction sites as required, to act in a safe manner, and to assess existing and new process performance.