Waste Water Process Technical Director

Leeds
8 months ago
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My Client is recruiting for a Waste Water Process Technical Director

Location: Flexible throughout UK with Hybrid working including offices in Surrey, Bristol, Birmingham, Derby, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds

Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? How about joining our talented team, where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' challenges head-on. It's a diverse and inclusive work environment where world-class talent knows no distinctions.

Bring your skills to the mix as a Waste Water Process Technical Director, you'll play a vital role leading in every aspect of business development and process engineering on Transformational Programmes for critical infrastructure with opportunities to work on iconic engineering projects at home and abroad. You will play a strategic role as an industry leader in your discipline, bringing people together to shape innovative and viable solutions to some of the most complex challenges facing society.

We specialise in all aspects of process engineering within the Water Sector. We continue to provide industry-leading engineering solutions right through the project lifecycle, with value added through client-side support as well as construction phases. If being a part of a team with a passion for this industry is for you then we would love to talk to you.

Your Purpose:

Be accountable for technical delivery and safety, to high-quality levels across multiple projects and programmes, acting as a point of escalation for resolutions of complex technical matters.
Set our technical strategic direction for projects and bid proposals, as well as acting as a subject-matter-expert.
Lead an agenda of technical excellence and continuous improvement in the practice whilst being accountable for quality assurance standards in design.
Work closely with teams in the UK and overseas to deliver integrated design solutions.
Accountable for quality assurance standards in design.
Grow, develop and manage our waste water process engineering capability within the practice. Bring pioneering innovation, contribute to advances in knowledge and understanding, and provide vision and inspiration to others.
Be a strategic partner for our Clients, sought out by them as a go-to person within your technical field.What you can bring:

Chartered Chemical / Process Engineer.
Influential and esteemed leadership, internally and externally.
Multi-disciplinary integration and co-ordination experience and expertise.
Up to date knowledge of innovation and treatment technologies available to market, or near market deployment, capital and operational costs assessments, GHG reduction techniques, whole life carbon assessments as well as knowledge of UK environmental and CDM regulations.
Nationally or international recognised subject matter expertise in your discipline(s), such as P removal (EBRP, Chemical, Novel Solutions), Treatment of emerging contaminants, Biosolids Treatment.
Commissioning experience
A strategic and transformational mindset

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