Chemical and Process Engineering Graduate Scheme - Infrastructure

Degree requirements: Minimum 2.2 Master’s/MEng degree in Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering.

Typical locations:  Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Epsom (Surrey), Manchester

As a Graduate Process Engineer within our Design and Advanced Technology - Water team you’ll help to support our clients across the Water sector in the UK and internationally.

Our team provides Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, ICA (Instrumentation, Control and Automation) and Process engineering skills and expertise to water companies, supporting their capital (both new build and refurbishment) and operational (problem solving on existing sites) projects and programmes.

You’ll get the opportunity to develop your capability in a wide range of exciting projects, with a focus on water and wastewater treatment, sludge treatment, and bioresource recovery from Anaerobic Digestion (AD). Water, both clean and dirty, is a critical asset needing careful management and you could play a key part in this!

Key activities include:

• Working within multidisciplinary teams to produce feasibility studies and outline designs through to detailed design work for water industry projects
• Working with and developing process tools such as mass balances and process flow diagrams
• Development of design solutions for clean and wastewater applications, as well as reviewing the performance of existing processes at treatment sites
• Collaborating with clients to understand and help them achieve their carbon and net zero ambitions
• Technical report writing
• Strategic planning to provide long-term innovative solutions for clients

Degree requirements: Minimum 2.2 BEng in Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering

Typical locations: Bristol, Glasgow

As a Graduate Chemical and Process Engineer you’ll find yourself working primarily on projects within the Net Zero Energy process engineering team – a collaborative and supportive environment where your contributions will be valued. Our team provides consultancy advice and engineering design work for new build projects, alongside improvement and maintenance services for clients’ existing assets. Our portfolio of clients encompasses a variety of energy sectors, from conventional power to new low carbon technologies, with a particular focus on decarbonisation projects in both large scale and decentralised energy assets.

In your first year of the Graduate Development Programme, you’ll find yourself diving straight into real projects, gaining hands-on experience and growing your responsibilities as your confidence and skills develop. The diversity of our client portfolio means you’ll have opportunities to contribute to a variety of projects - from large interdisciplinary design projects to concept studies to supporting clients with discipline specific technical advice.

Typical projects include:

• Early design study for a hydrogen production facility
• Input into a multi-disciplinary concept study for hydrogen purification in subsurface hydrogen storage (i.e. in caverns)
• Concept development modelling study of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies
• Detailed process modelling to optimise an existing asset’s performance (i.e. creation of a process digital twin)
• Development of a decarbonisation roadmap for hard-to-abate industrial sites
• Safety support including consequence modelling and risk assessments for a variety of plants including power generation, low carbon technologies and chemicals/refining
• Operational support and process studies to support the existing operation of high hazard industrial assets, including process integrity studies, process simulation and safety studies

The experience you gain will provide you with a broad experience of process engineering work and training opportunities.

Key responsibilities include performing engineering calculations, carrying out process modelling using various engineering software packages, producing technical reports, carrying out site visits and working closely with clients. Along with the technical focus, you’ll also be developing a variety of soft skills through technical report writing, client presentation, vendor engagement, proposal development, STEM outreach and internal process improvement which will help you grow into a well-rounded engineering professional.

We’re looking for candidates with a keen interest in delivering engineering projects for clients in the net zero energy systems market. A desire to learn and develop your technical understanding, to apply process engineering concepts and solve complex problems for our clients is key. We value team players who act with integrity, take pride in doing the right thing, and are committed to delivering high-quality work that strengthens our client relationships and company reputation.