Senior Process Engineer

Company: Balfour Beatty
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Location: Peterborough
Job Description:

Overview

As Senior Process Engineer within the @one Alliance, you will provide technical leadership across process design for major water infrastructure projects, ensuring deliverables meet standards, budgets, and timelines. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams in a hybrid setup, driving safety, sustainability, and digital innovation. Your role supports Anglian Water’s AMP8 programme and contributes to high-impact, environmentally responsible outcomes. This is an opportunity to shape process design practices within a forward-thinking alliance.

Pay / Benefits

  • Smart working with up to 40% remote working
  • 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
  • family-friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay maternity/adoption leave
  • pension
  • share incentive plan
  • volunteering leave

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage 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 docs for accuracy and compliance
  • Respond to construction site design queries and change requests to preserve 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 designs comply with process standards and DSEAR regulations
  • Mentor and develop junior engineers, promoting best practice
  • Embrace innovation and digital technologies to reduce carbon impact in design
  • Participate in wider Anglian Water initiatives such as HAZOPs, standards forums, and emergency response

Key requirements

  • Engineering degree (Chemical, Mechanical, Process) or equivalent experience
  • Chartered status or working towards chartership
  • Extensive experience in the water sector, especially process design and capital delivery projects
  • Thorough knowledge of relevant regulations, standards, and environmental requirements
  • Proven track record of mentoring and developing junior engineers
  • Experience in a Design & Build environment is advantageous but not essential
  • Strong leadership, communication, and decision-making abilities with a collaborative approach
  • Commitment to sustainability and reducing environmental impact of engineering solutions
  • leadership
  • communication
  • decision-making
  • process design
  • mass balances
  • hydraulic calculations

Posted: September 16th, 2026