Process Manager

Role purpose

Process design and simulation

• Develop treatment solutions, design criteria, process guarantees, design margins, technology selections, and process philosophy.
• Prepare and approve calculations, mass balances, hydraulic profiles, equipment sizing, PFDs, P&IDs, control narratives, and process datasheets.
• Perform biological simulations, primarily using BioWin, and membrane projections for brackish and seawater RO, ultrafiltration, EDI, and related systems.
• Check alignment between calculations, software outputs, vendor selections, and contractual performance requirements.

Team, equipment, and coordination

• Plan and review work by process engineers and drafting personnel; control deliverable quality, traceability, and schedule.
• Mentor the team and standardize technical methods, templates, and design practices.
• Select, size, and specify pumps, blowers, fans, vessels, valves, orifices, cooling towers, absorbers, strippers, filters, and sludge dewatering equipment.
• Coordinate technical interfaces with mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation, automation, proposals, procurement, construction, and commissioning.

Client, risk, and performance

• Lead technical meetings, design reviews, value engineering, and HAZOP/HAZID activities.
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, authorities, vendors, and technology providers; review vendor submissions and guarantees.
• Identify technical risks, support commissioning and troubleshooting, and verify plant performance against approved design requirements.

Experience and expertise

• Requires 15+ years of process engineering and design experience in water, wastewater, and industrial wastewater projects, including substantial process leadership or management.
• Requires team leadership, multidisciplinary project-interface management, and oversight across project lifecycles.
• Requires broad knowledge of water and wastewater treatment processes, process equipment, manual calculations, and process performance troubleshooting.
• Requires experience from concept and proposal through FEED/basic and detailed engineering, vendor reviews, commissioning, and plant evaluation.
• Hands-on process simulation experience with BioWin and recognized RO projection tools is required; other modeling software is an advantage.
• Requires knowledge of process guarantees, operability, maintainability, energy optimization, lifecycle costing, safety, standards, and regulations.