Applications Engineer, Industrial Water/Wastewater

Seven Seas Water Corporation•Tampa, FL

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Seven Seas Water Group is looking for an Applications Engineer to serve as the technical spearhead of our industrial Water-as-a-Service® (iWaaS®) business. Given a customer's influent characterization and effluent requirements, you'll develop the treatment flowsheet we can confidently guarantee and price it from the ground up. You'll work closely with our origination and business development team throughout the sales cycle as the primary technical point of contact in front of a prospect's own engineers and plant managers, the credibility that separates an iWaaS® pitch that sounds good from one that survives technical diligence. This is a hybrid role based in Tampa, Florida or Houston, Texas, with 20 to 30% travel to customer sites, suppliers, and pilot work.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Environmental, or Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
10+ years in industrial water and wastewater treatment in an applications, process, or proposal engineering role, with real depth in both water and wastewater
Direct experience with industrial clients and their waste streams (for example, food and beverage, chemicals, semiconductor and microelectronics, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper)
Demonstrated command of the major unit operations: biological (MBR, SBR, MBBR, anaerobic), physical/chemical (DAF, clarification), membrane (UF, RO), oxidation/disinfection (AOP, ozone, UV), PFAS treatment, and dewatering
A genuine, working supplier network across those technologies
Experience writing equipment scopes of work and negotiating process performance guarantees with suppliers
Ground-up estimating capability: PFD development, equipment selection and sizing, capital estimating from supplier pricing, and operating cost estimation
Strong communicator, credible in front of customers, suppliers, and executives alike

Nice To Haves

PE license
Experience with alternative delivery models like DBOO/DBOOM, BOOT, or Water-as-a-Service® contracts
Piloting or treatability study experience

Responsibilities

Translate customer influent and effluent requirements into a complete treatment flowsheet, mass balance, PFD, and design basis, that SSWG can guarantee and operate profitably for the life of a long-term contract.
Design for ownership: weighing reliability, redundancy, chemical and energy consumption, and lifecycle cost, not just capital cost.
Push past the default treatment train to find a solution that's more clever, more compact, or more economical than what the competition proposes.
Draw on the full industrial treatment toolbox, biological (MBR, SBR, MBBR, anaerobic), physical/chemical (DAF, clarification, softening), membranes and desalination (UF, RO), oxidation and disinfection (AOP, ozone, UV), PFAS treatment, and dewatering.
Be explicit about where the design basis is thin and what SSWG is guaranteeing and on what basis.
Maintain a personal network of qualified vendors across every major unit operation.
Write clear scopes of work.
Structure supplier agreements so process performance guarantees flow through to what SSWG commits to its customers.
Lead technical bid evaluations, normalizing offerings and recommending selections on lifecycle value rather than purchase price.
Price jobs from the ground up, developing the PFD and equipment list, sizing major and minor equipment, and building the capital estimate from firm supplier pricing.
Estimate the full cost of service, chemicals, energy, media replacement, residuals handling, staffing, and maintenance.
Own the technical content of proposals: process narrative, flowsheet, design basis, guarantees, and exclusions.
Hand off a design basis, supplier commitments, and estimate that hold up in execution at contract award.