Principal Process Engineer (Asset Optimisation)
About this role
Fabulous opportunity for a Principal Process Engineer to join the Costain Asset Optimisation Team who provide wastewater process engineering consultancy to support our clients across the UK to get the very best from their assets and programmes.
We are an agile technical team of process engineers working within capital delivery frameworks and on the front line with operational teams to develop innovative, practical and digital process solutions.
Our team delivers optimisation studies at feasibility, concept, optioneering and preliminary design stages to mitigate risk, return sites to compliance, or enable low or no build solutions to be provided.
As a Principal Process Engineer, you will;
Provide strategic support to our water sector frameworks to define and shape projects and programmes.
Manage the execution of asset optimisation projects and lead teams to propose, develop, and define process optimisation solutions.
For this role, we have a specific need for someone with experience of large, activated sludge plant design and or membrane treatment processes.
This is a predominantly home - based role with attendance required for site visits, design reviews and client meetings, often within the Northwest region (Manchester/Cheshire) as per business needs circa 2-3 days week, so will ideally suit someone based in the Northwest to support our Northern team.
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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Company at a glance
Costain helps to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet thrive. We shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.
We are organised around our customers anticipating and solving their challenges and helping to improve performance. By bringing together our unique mix of construction, consulting and digital experts we engineer and deliver sustainable, efficient and practical solutions.
Our ambition is to become a net zero business by 2035, while enhancing biodiversity and natural capital, and we have plans in place to deliver this. We are committed to procure responsibly and to be an inclusive and accessible business for all, enabling us to be our best while focusing on the outcomes that we deliver for people and planet.
At Costain, we have a vibrant, challenging and growing business – an environment that provides tremendous opportunities for everybody. We're looking for curious, collaborative and courageous people who'll help transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK. For more information about our careers go to www.costain.com/careers
Today, we employ around 3,500 people and have been named in the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023.
Top Benefits
- Disability Confident employer
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