Senior Process Engineer

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Manchester, Liverpool, Belfast, Reading, London and Cardiff

Recruiter contact: Emma Cantley

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. 
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. 

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. 

Ready for your next challenge? We're a company that actively fuels the creativity of our people.  We create the right foundations to bring brain and soul together and we understand that careers take many forms.  We've had enormous success in the AMP8 frameworks, and we know that variety is key to job satisfaction. We use our success to help our people learn through new challenges.  So take the next step in your career, with a company focused on supporting the development of our people through defined technical career pathways and supporting creativity with global and local mentors.  You have the skills, now use them at Mott MacDonald, a company that values a different perspective. If water's the new gold - shift your career and help address our planet's needs.
 

We are seeking a Senior Process Engineer with experience in municipal water and wastewater treatment. This a fantastic professional opportunity for driven individuals to work on a uniquely wide range of water related projects in the UK. As part of our team, you will be able to make a difference by designing cutting-edge water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades to deliver efficient engineering solutions for our clients and communities. 

Job description: 
In this role, you will:

• Provide technical process expertise and leadership across our programmes of water and wastewater treatment works engineering designs,
• Perform feasibility, outline, and detailed process design, including mass, heat, and energy balances, process flow diagrams, and P&IDs, 
• Work closely with other disciplines, contributing to plant and equipment specifications, design risk assessments, control philosophies, and cost and program estimates,
• Write technical reports to clearly communicate our findings and recommendations. 
• Develop and nurture sound relationships with our clients, working closely to agree the most appropriate solutions. 

Candidate specification: 

We are looking for a driven individual, keen to make a difference in the sector, take wide responsibilities and progress professionally.

Required skills and experience:

• Degree in Chemical Engineering or related engineering field. 
• Chartered Status (CEng),or working towards Chartered Status with a recognised Professional Institution.
• Detailed understanding of water and/or wastewater treatment process technologies.
• Experience in water/wastewater treatment process engineering design using appropriate calculation tools. 
• Experience in multidisciplinary outline, feasibility and detailed design within the UK water sector. 
• Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English.
• Strong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi-disciplinary teams as well as Client teams.
• Self-motivated and effective team player.
• Desire to take a leading role with client engagement on process engineering needs in the UK.
• Drive to keep abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions.
• Ability to travel to other offices and sites, as required.

Desirable:

• Track record in conducting water and/or wastewater treatment plant and process root-cause analysis reviews.
• Awareness of using wastewater modelling tools such as SUMO and BioWin. 
• Awareness of process safety techniques such as HAZOP / HAZID / DSEAR. 
• Understanding of key water sector treatment and sustainability needs
• Understanding of drivers for wastewater treatment investment in England and Wales.

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Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• 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.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• 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.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

 Learning and development

• 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.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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