Senior Process Engineer (thermal technologies)

Full Job Description

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd is a leading technical consultancy with a reputation built on over 30 years of successful projects in the UK and Ireland. Our purpose is to facilitate the investment and delivery of energy infrastructure projects that positively influence the road to net zero.

Our success comes from the unique combination of skills and experience that continuously evolves. Our Engineers and Consultants support some of the most innovative energy projects across the UK and Ireland; providing design, intellectual, and engineering services to developers, investors, and owner-operators.

We have over 165 employees that we are proud to have represent us, operating from our offices in Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, and Glasgow. As the business grows from strength to strength, we are now looking to further extend our team by recruiting an experienced Process Consultant who has experience of novel/emerging thermal process technologies to be based from our Stockport office, with hybrid working.

We are looking for:

· a good postgraduate degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering;

· ideally working towards Chartered Engineer status;

· significant work experience in one or more of the following areas, e.g., waste industry, consultancy or industrial manufacturing.

· experience with process plant concept design development, FEED studies, and detailed process plant system design;

· a good working knowledge of the following technologies:

· Carbon capture and storage

· gasification of waste/pyrolysis

· prior experience of process simulation using MATLAB, Simulink, HYSYS, Aspen Plus or similar;

· ability to prepare and review typical process plant documentation, i.e., heat & mass balances, PFDs, P&IDs, basis of design documents, process calculations etc.

· prior experience with the timely production of high-quality scientific models, professional technical reports, and other documentation for both external client and internal use;

· the ability and willingness to travel both in the UK, Ireland and occasionally further overseas for construction site monitoring visits, inspections etc.

What you can expect from us:

• A competitive salary with leading bonus scheme of up to 20% of salary
• Company electrical vehicle car leasing scheme
• Private medical & life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Team and company social events
• Milestone scheme celebrating years spent as part of the Fichtner team!