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About the role

Senior Process Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Peterborough/Hybrid

@one Alliance a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and seven industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver over half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme.

With AMP8 now underway, we're driving the most ambitious and innovative investment period yet-and we're on the lookout for passionate, experienced Senior Process Engineers to lead the charge in designing sustainable water and water recycling solutions across the East of England.

As a Senior Process Engineer, you'll take on a leadership role within our Place-Based Thinking team, guiding and supporting teams across a portfolio of non-infrastructure water and water recycling projects. You'll bring expert knowledge, mentorship, and oversight to ensure our designs are technically sound, sustainable, and aligned with both industry best practice and Anglian Water's goals.

What you'll be doing

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and reviewing process design deliverables across a range of projects.
• Checking P&IDs (Process and Instrumentation Diagrams), calculations, and 3D models for accuracy, quality, safety, and compliance.
• Providing engineering technical direction to process engineers across your region.
• Driving low-carbon, sustainable design thinking into all aspects of process development.
• Supporting the development and implementation of design alerts and lessons learned.
• Ensuring designs comply with internal and external regulations and standards.
• Collaborating closely with Principal Engineers, Portfolio Design Managers, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver value-focused, fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Mentoring and coaching junior engineers, fostering technical development across the team.
• Participating in site visits as needed to assess process performance and validate design.
• Presenting learnings and innovations across the Alliance to share knowledge and promote continuous improvement.
• Embracing and promoting digital design technologies and data-driven processes.

Who we're looking for

We are looking for:

• Degree in Engineering or a related discipline-or equivalent level of knowledge through experience.
• Significant experience in the water industry, ideally on large-scale water recycling capital projects.
• Proven track record of delivering robust process designs within multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to guide and develop others.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and water-sector process standards.
• A passion for sustainability, innovation, and digital transformation.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com