Waste/Water Principal Engineer

Schneider Electric · United States

Join us as a Waste/Water Principal Engineer and become the technical expert who transforms complex customer challenges into winning solutions. The Waste/Water Principal Engineer (Solution Architect) defines a technical vision & strategy for projects focused on retrofit of existing water or wastewater facilities, then functions as project’s technical leader whom collaboratively integrates across many disciplines and a diverse portfolio of external / internal stakeholders to ensure that the sum of all the parts achieves the project’s vision.

What will you do?

• Define Technical Vision / Strategy for the project including bringing innovative solutions to projects and collaboratively translating customer stakeholder needs & wants into project goals, objectives, requirements and boundaries.
• Key contributor to project’s Sales / Client Management strategy and Project Development Plan with go/no-go authority regarding messaging of project scope, costs, path to contract, development process & schedule.
• Collaborate with project core team to quantify resource needs necessary for achieving technical strategy. Assist core team with procuring resources including; defining format and content of deliverables, defining scope of services, and developing / negotiating Design Professional Agreements with 3 rd party engineers. Build and maintain effective relationships with 3rd party technical resources, manufacturers and/or contractors.
• Facilitate Stakeholders & Resources to gain and maintain alignment between project’s technical, financial and contractual solutions while identifying and quantifying risks in project’s risk log. Collaborate with the Project Development Manage r to manage project’s risk log and influence stakeholders to mitigate Schneider Electric risk while achieving a mutually beneficial allocation of risk to customer, Schneider Electric and other applicable stakeholders.
• Provide the technical leadership to align work products/deliverables with project’s technical strategy ensuring customer satisfaction and solutions quality, including the following.
• Facilitate and influence decision making of technical subject matter experts and other applicable stakeholders to ensure delivery of contractually guaranteed performance to the customer while meeting project goals and objectives within the project’s requirements, boundaries and risk mitigation strategies from project’s risk log. As required assist with issue(s) resolution during project’s final design, construction and ongoing service phases to resolve scoping and/or performance issues within boundaries of Schneider Electric’s contractual commitments. Represent the project’s technical solution during Schneider Electric management reviews of project.
• Collaborate with project engineer and energy engineer to ensure biological process theory of operations, modeling and energy savings calculations are plausible and mitigate risks associated with the projections. Collaborate with energy engineer and measurement and verification engineer to ensure contract provides fair and reasonable methodologies for measuring and verifying performance and/or savings while adequately mitigating Schneider Electric risk.
• Ensure project’s contract scope of work will deliver contractually guaranteed performance to the customer while meeting project goals and objectives within the project’s requirements, boundaries and risk mitigation strategies from project’s risk log
• Collaborate with project development manager and pre-construction manager to ensure; 1) each project team member’s contractual scope for engineering / design, construction and ongoing services is clear and the sum of all the parts will deliver the contract scope of work, 2) project’s scope of work quantifies assumptions regarding construction phasing and means & methods that significantly impact project cost.
• Collaborate with our project estimator to ensure all elements of the project’s scope are included in project estimates, project’s unique construction phasing and/or means and methods are addressed, and risks are financially mitigated in accordance with risk mitigation strategies from project’s risk log.
• Collaborate with commissioning manager to ensure project’s contractual Commissioning Approach will smoothly transition static elements of construction into continuously operating systems with minimal impact to biological process while providing the data required to obtain project acceptance and prove delivery of contractually guaranteed performance. As applicable participate in execution of startup & commissioning services.
• Collaborate with our performance assurance managers to ensure project’s contractual Operations, Maintenance, Repair and Replacement Approach clearly quantifies Roles & Responsibilities for Customer, Schneider Electric and other applicable stakeholders to deliver sustained guaranteed performance throughout project’s ongoing services phase.

TRAVEL: This position will require approximately 20-30% travel, generally of one to three days' duration. Weekend travel is rare, but possible. Estimated 1 week of travel every 2 months.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary duties. Moving over rough or uneven surfaces; recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities; recurring lifting of moderately heavy to light items. Transporting of items such as a laptop computer and luggage; driving an automobile, etc.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those employees encounter while performing the primary duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary duties. While performing the primary functions of the job, the employee is regularly exposed to a remote working environment. During periods of project site visits, the employee will be exposed to outside weather conditions as well as mechanical equipment rooms , which could consist of confined spaces and loud noises. Employee may work in different environments while on various job sites.

What are the key skills we are looking for?

• Enterprise Architecture — advanced level; designing scalable systems that align with customer business objectives
• Systems Engineering — advanced level; ensuring compatibility and optimal performance across complex integrations
• Critical Thinking — advanced level; solving ambiguous technical challenges that impact customer outcomes
• Problem Solving — advanced level; breaking down complex issues into actionable technical solutions
• Customer Orientation — intermediate level; understanding and anticipating customer needs throughout the sales cycle

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Minimum 4-year college degree or technical degree
• More than 5 years of equivalent work experience including demonstrable experience with owning technical solutions from inception through development, implementation and sustainment in water treatment or wastewater facilities. (preferred)
• Experience in the Wastewater marketplace
• Effective Communication and Project Management / Organization skills
• Analytical thinker combined with strong systems engineering skills
• Strong Customer Facing and Project Team Leadership skills
• Good understanding of wastewater process, electrical systems and SCADA / instrument & control systems
• Ability to understand multiple disciplines (i.e. process, architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, , electrical, instrumentation & control, etc.) drawings, scope of work documents and schematics
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs including but not limited to, Word and Excel

What's in it for me?

• Visible role influencing major customer decisions and driving significant business impact
• Collaborative culture that values technical excellence and continuous learning
• Clear growth path with leadership opportunities and specialized technical advancement

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