Process Engineer
| Posting date: | 27 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 August 2025 |
| Location: | PE3 6WT |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Sweco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4129 |
Summary
As a Process Engineer within one of our four business units, you will provide technical leadership and guidance to process engineering teams, ensuring the successful delivery of process designs for water projects on AMP8. You’ll review design outputs to ensure they meet required standards, specifications, and project objectives.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead the delivery of process design for projects, ensuring compliance with safety, technical, and quality standards.
Review design deliverables, including mass balances, hydraulic calculations, P&IDs, and process flow diagrams, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate design reviews and implement necessary changes.
Mentor and support the development of junior process engineers, promoting best practices and professional growth.
Ensure all designs adhere to health, safety, and environmental standards, including hazardous area regulations (DSEAR).
Drive continuous improvement by championing innovation in design and digital technologies.
Assist in stakeholder engagement and supplier coordination to secure design approvals and project success.
Promote sustainability and carbon reduction initiatives within design practices to support environmental stewardship.
About You
We’re seeking a proactive and experienced Process Engineer with strong leadership skills. You will ideally have:
A degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Process Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Chartered status or be working towards chartership.
Proven experience in the water sector, especially in process design and capital projects.
Comprehensive knowledge of process design standards, regulations, and environmental requirements.
Experience mentoring and developing less experienced engineers.
Experience in a Design & Build environment is advantageous but not essential.
Familiarity with health, safety, and environmental management within water projects.
Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills, with a collaborative approach and focus on continuous improvement.
A strong commitment to sustainability and reducing the environmental impact of engineering solutions.
Depending on your skills, experience, and interests, you could be aligned to one of our four business units:
Place Based Thinking
The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.
Water
The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.
Water Recycling (East and West)
Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000 km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.
Why Join Us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll have the chance to contribute to cutting‑edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working alongside a team of experts across various disciplines. We offer a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth, with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions that make a positive environmental impact.
If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.
Let’s transform society together at Sweco.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead the delivery of process design for projects, ensuring compliance with safety, technical, and quality standards.
Review design deliverables, including mass balances, hydraulic calculations, P&IDs, and process flow diagrams, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate design reviews and implement necessary changes.
Mentor and support the development of junior process engineers, promoting best practices and professional growth.
Ensure all designs adhere to health, safety, and environmental standards, including hazardous area regulations (DSEAR).
Drive continuous improvement by championing innovation in design and digital technologies.
Assist in stakeholder engagement and supplier coordination to secure design approvals and project success.
Promote sustainability and carbon reduction initiatives within design practices to support environmental stewardship.
About You
We’re seeking a proactive and experienced Process Engineer with strong leadership skills. You will ideally have:
A degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Process Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Chartered status or be working towards chartership.
Proven experience in the water sector, especially in process design and capital projects.
Comprehensive knowledge of process design standards, regulations, and environmental requirements.
Experience mentoring and developing less experienced engineers.
Experience in a Design & Build environment is advantageous but not essential.
Familiarity with health, safety, and environmental management within water projects.
Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills, with a collaborative approach and focus on continuous improvement.
A strong commitment to sustainability and reducing the environmental impact of engineering solutions.
Depending on your skills, experience, and interests, you could be aligned to one of our four business units:
Place Based Thinking
The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.
Water
The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.
Water Recycling (East and West)
Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000 km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.
Why Join Us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll have the chance to contribute to cutting‑edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working alongside a team of experts across various disciplines. We offer a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth, with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions that make a positive environmental impact.
If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.
Let’s transform society together at Sweco.
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