Senior Process Engineering Consultant (UK Energy)

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At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A little more about your role…

At WSP, there’s nothing we love more than pushing boundaries. Harnessing innovation and sharing insights across our diverse, international team to create a tomorrow’s world that's cleaner, greener and safer. Join us and you’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its people and purpose : creating long-lasting solutions to meet the needs of generations to come.

In this role, you will be part of the Energy Transition Process team developing innovative solutions to complex problems, delivering projects at various stages of maturity. Working as part of a large multidisciplinary engineering group, you will oversee the development of process plant designs on a wide range of energy projects, including conventional power plant, carbon capture schemes, hydrogen generation and transportation, gas networks, energy from waste plants, and industrial facilities.

This is an ideal role if you have exposure in the delivery of concept, FEED, and detail design work and are familiar with working for an OEM, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor, or a similar organisation. Your experience of working in operations and maintenance (O&M) and understanding of asset integrity processes and procedures would be advantageous in helping us support our clients with technical advice on their existing facilities and operational plant.

Location is flexible across our UK office network.

You will head the team to deliver the following :

• Leading the Process engineering team on projects to deliver technically excellent solutions to our clients across a broad portfolio of projects.
• Work on projects in a variety of stages of maturity, including feasibility studies, concept designs, FEED Studies, value engineering and detailed design. There will be opportunities for site work during project development, construction and commissioning.
• Prepare process models / calculations, process datasheets, heat and mass balances, process flow diagrams, piping & instrumentation drawings and process philosophies.
• Generate and maintain internal tools and calculations.
• Providing visible technical and team leadership and governance.
• Developing designs and approaches that clearly differentiate WSP from our competitors.
• Promote and lead innovation across the team and the application of engineering principles to first of a kind projects.
• Working collaboratively with other groups within WSP and maximising cross-selling opportunities.
• Support business leadership in the preparation and review of key bids, provide input into pricing strategy.
• Identification of skills gaps and recruitment of technical staff.
• Maintaining and developing processes and procedure to ensure efficient delivery of design.
• Support and ensure the integration of UK wide best practice i.e. BMS, SHEQ.
• Interface with GCC and promote its effective use within the region.

Your Team :

Our team’s expertise covers all Energy Transition generation and conversion technologies including novel, first of a kind concepts and other low or zero carbon technology. Working together with private developers, power utilities, government bodies, banks, lending agencies, contractors and OEM’s we safely deliver projects whilst meeting and exceeding client expectations.

Our teams are tactically placed in the UK, India, Ireland and wider Europe. We work internationally with our clients and other Energy sector teams in North America, Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia.

The Energy Transition team provides services to Clients from inception through development, construction, operation, and decommissioning. An approach that sees us support our clients over the entire lifecycle of a project.

We'd love to hear from you if you have :

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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