Process Engineer

About The Role

Process Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location:

Peterborough

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance:
Overview | Linked In} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners:
Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we're taking on nature‑based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

As a Process Engineer within one of our four business units, you will contribute to the development and delivery of process designs for water and water recycling projects on AMP
8. You’ll support senior engineers in producing design outputs and help ensure these meet required standards, specifications, and project objectives.

• Support the delivery of process design activities, ensuring they meet safety, technical, and quality requirements.
• Prepare and contribute to design deliverables, including mass balances, hydraulic calculations, P&IDs, and process flow diagrams.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support design reviews and incorporate feedback.
• Assist with design development tasks, contributing to the resolution of technical challenges.
• Ensure designs follow relevant health, safety, and environmental standards, including hazardous area regulations (DSEAR).
• Contribute to continuous improvement by applying innovative design approaches and supporting digital tools.
• Support engagement with stakeholders and suppliers as required to progress design work.
• Promote sustainable design practices and support carbon‑reduction objectives across project delivery.

We’re seeking a motivated and conscientious Process Engineer with water or wastewater experience and a desire to develop their technical expertise.

• A degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Process Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with in the water sector or a related process‑driven industry.
• A good understanding of process design principles, standards, and environmental considerations.
• Experience producing or contributing to technical design deliverables.
• An interest in progressing towards chartership (support provided).
• Familiarity with health, safety, and environmental requirements within engineering projects.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills, with a collaborative and proactive approach.
• A genuine interest in sustainability and delivering environmentally responsible engineering solutions.

The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.

The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.

Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres,…