Location
Cardiff, London, Cambridge, Croydon, Reading, Brighton, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow; UK
Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Principal/Associate Process Engineer to join our team to support the delivery of our UK and Ireland clients’ water programmes.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Lead process engineering input across feasibility, concept, preliminary, and detailed design for water treatment designs
- Develop and review process designs, including block flow diagrams, P&IDs, mass balances, and equipment sizing
- Analyse operational data to identify optimisation opportunities and improve treatment performance
- Perform process modelling and simulation to support design and operational enhancements
- Prepare high-quality technical reports, proposals, and client presentations
- Check process deliverables for accuracy and compliance
- Engage with clients and stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery
- Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering technical growth and team development
- Collaborate with resource coordinators to manage project resources and contribute to recruitment and training initiatives
- Support business development by providing technical input to proposals, tenders, and client strategies
Candidate Specification
- Degree in Chemical Engineering or related engineering field
- Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
- Proven experience in municipal water treatment
- Strong understanding of conventional and emerging treatment technologies
- Significant experience in developing and delivering feasibility, outline, and detailed process designs
- Demonstrated ability to conduct root‑cause analysis and optimise treatment processes
- Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English
- Excellent communication skills for client interaction and team collaboration
- Skilled in reviewing technical deliverables, calculations, and reports
- Commitment to continuous professional development and staying abreast of emerging technologies
- Willingness to contribute to technical knowledge networks and promote best practice
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Agile Working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.
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 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.
Benefits
- 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 programme, 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× your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6× 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.
Job Details
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Water
Discipline: Water
Job Ref: 15002
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