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Principal Process Engineer

Trafford Park
5 days ago
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Are you an experience Principal Process Engineer with a keen interest in supporting the Water industry?

Would you like to join a forward-thinking business at the forefront of innovation and sustainability?

Do you want to take the lead and play a key role on projects that make a real word impact?

The Opportunity
An opportunity has become available for a proven Principal Process Engineer to join one of our key clients on a long-term contract, operating outside IR35. This role will enable you to gain valuable experience from a seasoned team of specialists in the Water industry. As Principal Process Engineer, you will fulfil a key role in leading important projects from concept through to commissioning.

Your duties and responsibilities will be
Ensure design team produce design deliverables that satisfy safety and quality requirements.
Identify appropriate and efficient design solutions from scopes and site visits and communicate these to client and project team
Direct and develop engineers and graduates. 
Approve design deliverables, DRAs, reports and specifications.
Check and approve mass balance, process sizing and hydraulic calculations and process flow diagrams, control philosophies and commissioning strategies
Guide design in compliance with relevant technical, professional and water company standards.
Ensure project change for design package is fully implemented and recorded.
Ensure work is undertaken using formal processes and procedures.
Estimate hours required for design packages
Attend and present designs at HAZOP, ALM, KM meetings and similar
Review, interpret and brief standards, procedures, and changes to them. Provide key technical guidance for projects and tenders.
 You will have the following qualifications & experience:
Chartered Engineer or working towards
Extensive process design experience within the UK regulated water sector
Proven record of delivering process designs for wastewater schemes
Demonstrable capability producing PFDs/P&IDs, equipment sizing/specs, and technical reports through to design assurance
It’s great if you also have the following
Experience with both clean water and waste water
Experience of HAZOP studies ideally as HAZOP chair
Driving licence & access to vehicle  Millbank Holdings Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background, and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.
 
We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, and we are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process for everyone. If you require any adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
 
Millbank operates as both an Employment Agency and an Employment Business.

Millbank Holdings Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background, and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.
 
We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, and we are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process for everyone. If you require any adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

Millbank operates as both an Employment Agency and an Employment Business

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