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Senior Process Engineer
Salary: Competitive plus annual bonus, car or allowance and other Veolia benefits
Location: National covering across UK
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It’s why we’re looking for someone who’s just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life.
We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you:
- Annual bonus
- Car or allowance
- Access to our company pension scheme
- Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
- Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
- 24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household
- One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
- Stream - Employee financial wellbeing support: early access to your earned pay, savings, budgeting, financial coaching & reward
What you'll be doing:
- Provide technical support across Veolia’s thermal treatment and Energy Recovery Facility operations, including plant performance analysis, issue resolution and operational improvements.
- Monitor and analyse plant KPIs, carry out site assessments, and set performance targets to improve efficiency, reliability and asset performance across more than 20 sites.
- Lead or support improvement initiatives, feasibility studies, technology development projects and performance testing, including waste-flow, heat and mass-balance modelling.
- Provide technical input to new projects, bids and growth opportunities by reviewing designs, developing thermal solutions, assessing technologies and advising Development and Project teams.
- Collaborate with plant managers, operations teams, BS&P, clients, suppliers and technical bodies, while developing standards, supporting regulatory requirements and coaching junior engineers.
What we're looking for:
Essential:
- Process Engineering: more than 5 years experience minimum in engineering background (Mechanical, Process, Industrial, Electrical).
- Previous technical experience from a continuous process background.
- Ability to manipulate data to produce complex reports.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Ability to successfully support and manage teams
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Excellent Communication Skills:
- Excellent skills in writing and delivering high quality reports and presentations.
- Excellent communication on a weekly basis with operations that result in building rapport and strong relationship
Desirable:
- Previous experience of working at a senior level.
- Degree, or equivalent in an Engineering discipline
- Mass Balance , Application of thermodynamic principles to produce heat and mass balance studies for existing process and proposed modifications
- Experience in waste management and recycling sector
- WasteFlow Modelling
- Experience in developing feasibility studies and projects’ business cases incl.the interrogation of Financial Modeling
- Experience in project planning and management skills
- Power Generation Experience
- Waste Management Experience
- NEBOSH
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Skills Required
- More than 5 years of experience in process engineering or a related mechanical, industrial, electrical, or engineering discipline
- Technical experience in a continuous process environment
- Ability to manipulate data and produce complex reports
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to support and manage teams successfully
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to write and deliver high-quality reports and presentations
- Ability to communicate regularly with operations teams and build strong relationships
- Previous experience working at a senior level
- Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline
- Experience producing heat and mass balance studies using thermodynamic principles
- Experience in waste management and recycling
- Waste-flow modelling experience
- Experience developing feasibility studies and project business cases, including financial model analysis
- Project planning and management experience
- Power generation experience
- Waste management experience
- NEBOSH qualification
What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste. Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes. Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence. We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals. These aren't just empty words
