Lead Process Engineer

Do you have what it takes to transform society?

Working as a Lead Process Engineer, you will provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area, in either water or water recycling non-infrastructure projects. Part of the role involves providing design support for several non-infrastructure schemes and ensuring all designs fit within the current legislation and standards.

You will be responsible for the checking and reviewing of process design deliverables produced by other process engineers in the @one Alliance to ensure the processes and procedures are followed as well as coaching and mentoring junior engineers.

The Lead Process Engineer will collaborate with key stakeholders and assist the multi-disciplinary project teams to ensure the project solution is providing best value for business through being fit for purpose and completed on time, to budget, and to the correct quality.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Manager, and project Design Managers to review upcoming projects and design review dates.
• Check Process and Instrumentation drawings and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to.
• Check project design calculations and ensure they have been completed by the project teams.
• Drive sustainability and low-carbon designs.
• Ensure designs comply with process standards, regulations, and Anglian Water standards.
• Develop design alerts where lessons are to be learned.
• Provide technical knowledge and experience to the lettings of @One frameworks.
• Undertake site visits when appropriate.
• Present lessons learned and technical developments to the engineers and wider alliance.
• Embrace new digital technologies to achieve the goal of fully attributed 3D models.
• Support the team to reduce carbon and increase natural capital within design.
• Maintain portfolio awareness in technical areas and disseminate to all process engineers.
• Embrace new digital technologies to achieve the goal of fully attributed 3D models.
• Present lessons learnt and technical developments to the engineers and wider alliance team.
• Coach and mentor less experienced members of the process team.

A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours….

To be eligible for this dynamic role within the @One Alliance, you should possess a Degree in Engineering or an equivalent qualification or be able to demonstrate a degree-level of knowledge through relevant experience. Ideally, you will be chartered or actively pursuing chartered status, coupled with experience in water-sector assets and capital projects or design and build environment.

You will have a proven track record in mentoring and coaching junior engineers. This is an exciting opportunity for those who bring a combination of academic background, professional credentials, and practical experience to contribute to our team.

If you are an enthusiastic and driven Lead Process Engineer looking for an opportunity to showcase your talent and add value to your career with an industry leading alliance, please apply today!

@One Vision

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

@One Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or  site presence on an average of three days a week.

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Eight partners, endless opportunities.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

About Us

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs. 

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco.  We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed  the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?

If you’re an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, please contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcing@sweco.co.uk for assistance.

In order to address your request the following information is needed:

• Name

• The best method for contacting you (Phone or email)

• The position title

• Requisition/vacancy number

Upon receipt of this information, we’ll respond to you promptly to obtain more information about your request.

Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity.  We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs.  Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in December 2022 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2024 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.

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