About The Role
Senior Process Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location: Peterborough
Are you ready to shape the future of water infrastructure?
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Balfour Beatty as part of the @one Alliance — a pioneering collaboration between Anglian Water and seven leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO. Together, we deliver over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
As we move into AMP8, we’re looking for
Senior Process Engineers to provide technical leadership and direction to process engineers, ensuring that process design deliverables are thoroughly checked, fit for purpose, and meet all required standards and project outcomes.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage quality through the process design workflow to deliver projects on time, within cost, and to quality standards.
- Review mass balances, process sizing, hydraulic calculations, P&IDs, process flow diagrams, and other design documentation to ensure technical accuracy and compliance.
- Check construction site design queries and change requests to provide prompt, accurate responses and maintain design integrity.
- Support Project Design Managers with design planning and stakeholder engagement for process design acceptance.
- Provide technical input for supplier contracts and deliverables review.
- Champion health, safety, and welfare, ensuring all designs comply with process standards and hazardous area regulations (DSEAR).
- Mentor and develop junior engineers, fostering professional growth and promoting best practice.
- Embrace innovation and digital technologies to drive continuous improvement and reduce carbon impact in design.
- Participate in wider Anglian Water initiatives such as HAZOPs, technical standards forums, and emergency response activities.
Who we're looking for
We’re seeking a proactive and experienced Senior Process Engineer with strong leadership and technical skills. Ideally, you will have:
- An engineering degree (Chemical, Mechanical, Process Engineering) or equivalent experience.
- Chartered status or working towards chartership.
- Extensive experience within the water sector, particularly process design and capital delivery projects.
- Thorough knowledge of relevant regulations, standards, and environmental requirements.
- A proven track record of mentoring and developing junior engineers.
- Experience in a Design & Build environment is advantageous but not essential.S
- Strong leadership, communication, and decision-making abilities with a collaborative approach.
- A genuine commitment to sustainability and reducing the environmental impact of engineering solutions.
Where You’ll Make An Impact
Depending on your expertise, you could join one of the Alliances four dynamic delivery groups:
Place Based Thinking – Delivering complex, high-impact projects across 19 catchments.
Water – Supporting clean water network performance and infrastructure planning.
Water Recycling East & West – Managing wastewater treatment and driving environmental innovation.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team that values innovation, continuous learning, and sustainable engineering.
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?
Benefits
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:
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