Process Senior Design Engineer (Drinking Water Biased)

Overview

In this role you will lead process-focused design for drinking water projects within Galliford Try’s Engineering Design Team, ensuring high quality outputs and regulatory compliance. You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, manage design activity across disciplines, and mentor early-career engineers. The position supports the in-house design capability across UK water projects and contributes to safe, buildable, and cost-effective solutions. This is a hands-on, project-driven role that blends governance, innovation, and delivery at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• generous holiday entitlement
• car benefit scheme
• Agile working
• annual pay review and discretionary bonus
• comprehensive pension plan
• private medical scheme options

Responsibilities

• Provide technical compliance and quality on design outputs
• Act as discipline lead for a project
• Seek optimal, cost-effective design solutions
• Design for buildability, safe construction and operation
• Ensure procedural governance and client specification adherence
• Ensure compliance with Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation
• Promote innovation, value engineering and digital design
• Lead technical problem solving across project lifecycle
• Assist in pre-contract design activities
• Deliver lessons learned to improve future schemes
• Line management of multi-disciplinary design engineers
• Mentor and develop discipline engineers towards accreditation

Key requirements

• Process Calculations, Mass Balances, Heat Balances and Hydraulic Calculations
• Process Block Diagrams, PFDs and P&IDs
• Process Control Philosophies and Commissioning Plans
• HAZOP leadership desirable
• DSEAR desirable
• Degree-level engineering qualification
• Chartered status preferred
• Contracting/consulting environment experience
• Experience checking and approving discipline design packages
• Knowledge of H&S legislation and British Standards
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Strong IT skills (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and cost/performance systems
• Leadership and ability to develop teams

• Communication and stakeholder management
• Leadership and mentoring
• Collaborative working style
• Process Calculations
• Mass Balances
• Heat Balances

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