Waste/Water Principal Engineer

Schneider Electric•Carrollton, TX

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
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

Responsibilities

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 3rdparty 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 Manager 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 WWW 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.