Senior Process Engineer - Veolia WTS

Part of Veolia Group, Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions brings together experienced professionals in pursuit of the same goal: to solve the world's most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, the environment and energy. We’re always looking for passionate and creative people to help us in this mission!

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery,
treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and
beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy
industrial wastewater treatment. We serve more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day. We simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build
stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at
every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer
challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work
arrangements.

We are seeking a Senior Process Engineer to join our team of experts with an overall combined experience of over 450 years among 17 experts working for Director of Global Process Engineering group. This role will work closely with Technical Director-Integrated Projects, within Global Process Engineering Group to successfully implement business and group objectives.

The successful candidate must possess strong leadership skills, motivational skills, and guide regional process engineers, develop design guidance, provide technical trainings, and share experiences as Subject Matter Expert (SME) with process engineers and other multifunctional teams globally.

Key Characteristics
Leader: Execute strategic solutions, execute plans, strengthen team.
Motivator/Mentor: Provide technical guidance & motivate regional process engineers, leads technical strategy to ensure optimum solutions meeting our external and Internal customer needs. Mentors next gen talent

Accountable: Responsible to deliver solutions and achieve targets
Collaborate, Guide & Drive: Discussions with multifunctional groups to agree on path
forward. Technical Expertise in water & wastewater chemistry, applications, and competitive landscape.

Duties & Responsibilities:

•  Establish and guide relationships with Regional process leaders, process engineers and sales for alignment and smooth execution of projects, achieving annual targets.
• Lead discussions with Regional Process engineers and other team members to drive mutual consensus on clear strategy & path forward for an optimum solution meeting customer need.
• Lead to deliver technoeconomic modeling for selection of an optimum system.
• Drive initial process reviews with regional process teams for alignment and leading discussion during final review with Director – GPE team as SME.
• Document the process reviews with observations, clear action items and path to solution.
• Develop new /update existing process design guidelines and provide trainings.
• Share experiences on important technical topics, Pilot/Plant operating data, new competitive technologies with recommendations from GPE platform.
• Play a key role in technical discussions as SME with Technical Director / Director - GPE on projects along with other SME to advise on technical issues under review.
• Lead efforts on complex integrated project to recommend creative strategy around
• Performance test and mitigation plan against business exposure.
• Develop & maintain operating data base from operating plants to make decision based on experiences from operating plants mitigating business risks & exposure.
• Deliver expert advice on treatability studies, optimized design options for new projects and for new technologies available in competitive landscape.
• Lead pilot test plan discussions with extended teams and review/approve operating changes. Analyze & review pilot data and approve technical results/ recommendations on pilot reports. Participate in technical meetings with customers supporting Commercial Eng. / Sales to ensure optimum technical solution meeting customer needs.
• Guide technical peer risk reviews through recommendations on design optimizations in value engineering efforts.
• Deliver expert opinions / recommendations to project execution team during commissioning, performance tests, data analysis and participate in operator trainings.
• Lead collaborative efforts among following multifunctional groups but not limited to
• Technology, Products, CMS and Commercial Engineering for technical alignment.

Qualifications

Hard Skills:

• Technical Expertise, deep understanding of Competitive landscape for technology and products in the market
• Strong Business Acumen,  understanding of customer needs to propose optimum solutions
• Expertise in 3rd Party / Vendor competitive technologies, software for simulations, its limitations to assess performance pros / cons

Soft Skills:

• Responsible & Time Management
• Solidarity, Respect, Collaboration & Inclusiveness
• Innovation & Inspiration
• Customer Focus, Clear Thinker with Problem-solving Attitude

Education & Experience Required:

• B.S. in Chemical, Process Engineering, or other equivalent technical discipline.
• Master’s in chemical, Process Engineering, or other equivalent technical discipline.
• 15+ years engineering experience in the water and wastewater reuse industry
• 10+ years of experience reflects dedicated expertise, with in-depth chemistry knowledge, understanding in designing operations and Troubleshooting of complex integrated flowsheet solutions.
• Strong communication skills to facilitate process optimization projects between the internal engineering team and the customer.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal)

Preferred:

• Ph. D degree
• Electro-Separation systems utilizing Electrodialysis (ED), Bipolar Electrodialysis (BPED), Electrodialysis Reversal (EDR) and Electro-deionization (EDI) technologies.

Willing to travel internationally and locally up to 15-30%

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.