Process Engineer Cooling Towers Chillers

Overview

In this role you will ensure industrial offers are technically sound and commercially compelling. You will work with regional sales to craft end-to-end technical offers and select system architectures for heating, cooling, water transfer, and high-pressure applications. You’ll build energy savings, ROI, and lifecycle cost models, and perform site assessments and process audits. The position combines technical depth with cross-functional collaboration and international scope from a Manchester base, with travel.

Pay / Benefits

• 60K – 80K
• 25 days holiday
• 9% Company pension

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end creation of technical offers for industrial customers
• Select and specify the right solution architecture across Heating, Cooling, Water Transfer, and High-Pressure Applications
• Ensure offers are technically accurate and application-appropriate
• Build energy savings calculations, ROI models, and lifecycle cost cases
• Engage with plant engineers, process managers, and energy managers
• Conduct site assessments and process audits to map system architectures
• Analyse P&IDs and process schematics
• Collaborate with regional sales teams to align technical and commercial aspects

Key requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• 8-12 years of experience in cooling towers, chillers, industrial pumps & process environments (metals, mining, cement, food & beverage, or similar)
• Experience in application engineering, technical offer creation, or process engineering roles
• Ability to read, interpret, and commercially analyse P&IDs and process schematics
• Competency in parallel operations such as boilers, pumps, chillers, cooling towers
• Solution architecture capability for process applications (designing system-level solutions)
• Ability to build energy savings calculations, ROI models, and carbon reduction cases from first principles
• Familiarity with industrial protection classes, IP ratings, and hazardous area compliance requirements

• Stakeholder engagement
• Analytical mindset
• Cross-functional communication
• Cooling towers
• Chillers
• Industrial pumps

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