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About The Role

We are looking to strengthen our Engineering team with a Senior Process Engineer based at  a suitable location within the UK, with flexible working available.

 Are you an experienced Senior Process Engineer ready to help shape the successful delivery of complex water and wastewater treatment projects? At MWH Treatment, our process engineers play a critical role in developing innovative, sustainable and efficient treatment solutions that help deliver safer, smarter and more resilient water services for our customers and communities.

We are looking for a Senior Process Engineer to lead process design activities across major projects, delivering robust, buildable solutions that meet client requirements, regulatory standards, and long-term performance objectives.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead process design tasks and packages to agreed technical standards, budgets and programmes.
  • Develop process calculations, treatment philosophies, plant layouts and design documentation that support efficient and reliable asset performance.
  • Support optioneering, process selection, design development and technical decision-making across water and wastewater treatment schemes.
  • Review and assure process design outputs within your area of authority.
  • Coordinate process design with mechanical, EICA, civil, digital, hydraulic and commissioning teams to support integrated project delivery.
  • Identify process risks, treatment performance requirements and opportunities for optimisation across design, construction, commissioning and operation.
  • Mentor junior engineers, graduates and apprentices, sharing specialist process knowledge across the team.
  • Build strong working relationships with clients, discipline leads, project teams, suppliers and site teams.
 
 
 

About You

Essential: 

  • Strong experience in process design within water, wastewater, process, utilities or a similarly regulated engineering environment.
  • Good understanding of water and sewage treatment principles, including process selection, treatment performance and regulatory requirements.
  • Ability to produce and review process calculations, process flow diagrams, design philosophies, specifications and technical reports.
  • Experience supporting optioneering, feasibility, outline design, detailed design, commissioning support or performance optimisation.
  • Ability to produce practical, economic and buildable process solutions that consider whole-life cost, safety, carbon and operational performance.
  • Experience leading, checking or mentoring engineers within a process or related engineering discipline.
  • Membership of a professional institution, ideally Chartered or working towards Chartership.
  • Relevant engineering qualification, ideally a process, chemical, environmental, civil or water engineering degree, or minimum HND in a relevant discipline.
  • Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and commercially.
  • Computer literacy and a full UK driving licence.

Why join us?

At MWH Treatment, process engineering is at the heart of how we design and deliver reliable, sustainable and future-ready water and wastewater treatment solutions. You will have the opportunity to influence critical infrastructure projects from early concept through to delivery, working with talented multidisciplinary teams to create treatment solutions that make a real difference for customers, communities and the environment.

  • Work on technically varied process challenges across major water and wastewater treatment projects.
  • Help deliver safer, smarter and more sustainable infrastructure through innovative treatment design.
  • Join a collaborative design-and-build environment where process expertise influences key project decisions.
  • Develop your career through mentoring, professional development and exposure to complex multidisciplinary schemes.
  • Be part of a business focused on safety, sustainability, innovation and doing the right thing for customers, communities and the environment.

 

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances. 

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills. 

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day. 

What MWH offer 

Packages include -  

A competitive salary 

Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent) 

Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent) 

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy) 

Contribution Pension scheme 

Life Assurance 

Health Insurance 

Private Medical Insurance 

And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc 

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