Principal Process Design Engineer

4 days ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Arcadis Full time £45,000 - £80,000 per year

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:
Our UK Resilience Water team are looking for experienced Senior Process Engineers to grow our Design & Engineering team. In Engineering, you'll create some of the world's most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to provide Optioneering, Outline and Detailed design inputs for Frameworks across UK Water Companies, alongside major large scale Design & Build projects with our Contractor Partners, covering diverse and technically demanding and stimulating projects in treatment process engineering.

Our Resilience GBA works to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations

Role accountabilities:
This exciting and challenging role represents a significant opportunity for the right person to showcase their Technical experience and skills, to get involved with the south of the UK's future water and environmental improvement schemes and to join the growing Arcadis UK Water Design & Engineering team.

  • Liaison with clients to understand their specific requirements
  • Preparation of outline & detailed designs drawings and associated other Construction- Ready documentation
  • Inputs to the development of Feasibility level design and Optioneering assessments,
  • Preparation of clear and well-structured design calculations, reports, drawings and other deliverables, including outline & detailed designs drawings and associated other Construction- Ready documentation,
  • Liaison with contractors, the supply chain and other project stakeholders.
  • Develop the basis of design, undertake calculations and other process deliverable.
  • Liaise with other engineering disciplines
  • Ensure a high standard of safety is achieved and environmental and quality assurance procedures are followed.
  • Mentoring and supporting the development of less experienced members of staff.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Degree in Chemical Engineering or suitable alternative qualification
  • Chartered or working towards chartership membership of an appropriate Professional body (IChemE or CIWEM)
  • Strong technical design experience on multi-disciplinary projects
  • Sufficient and appropriate experience in process engineering, preferably in regulated water but open to other relevant fields
  • Good working knowledge and understanding of Water Industry Clients and Contractors
  • Good motivation, influencing and people management skills
  • Knowledge and experience of BIM led design and other process specific digital tools
  • Good working knowledge and understanding of the applicable British Standards, UK Industry Codes of Practice and Water Specifications.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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