Water Process Integration & Solutions Architect

Yokogawa • Sugar Land, TX

14d • Hybrid

About The Position

Yokogawa, an award-winning provider of industrial automation and services, is seeking a Water Process Integration & Solutions Architect. This role is crucial for guiding the company's strategic vision in water solutions, focusing on acquisitions, investments, and partnerships. The architect will develop compelling value propositions and business cases, quantify customer outcomes, and support the design and optimization of complex water treatment systems. This position involves translating customer challenges into technical requirements, advising on the integration of process technologies with advanced systems like AI and digital twins, and providing technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle. The role also includes assessing emerging technologies and partners, creating repeatable solution architectures, and collaborating across various internal teams and external stakeholders. A key aspect is monitoring market trends and regulatory developments to inform business strategy and portfolio development. The architect will also support business planning, sales enablement, and executive communication, providing regular reports on activities and outcomes.

Requirements

• Minimum is a bachelor’s degree in chemical, environmental, civil, mechanical, water resources, or a related engineering or scientific discipline.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in water, wastewater, desalination, water reuse, resource recovery, or industrial water treatment.
• Demonstrated experience integrating multiple process technologies into complete customer solutions rather than focusing solely on a single product or unit process.
• Experience supporting complex municipal or industrial projects through concept development, design, commercialization, deployment, or operations.
• Ability to develop and communicate CAPEX, OPEX, total-cost-of-ownership, risk, and value tradeoffs.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to contribute to portfolio planning, partnerships, acquisitions, and business development.
• Broad understanding of drinking water, municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, water reuse, desalination, and resource recovery applications.
• Working depth across relevant processes such as activated sludge, nutrient removal, MBR, MBBR, MABR, anaerobic treatment, clarification, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, oxidation, disinfection, UF, MF, NF, RO, EDR, evaporation, crystallization, ZLD/MLD, sludge treatment, and biosolids management.
• Ability to develop process flow diagrams, mass and energy balances, treatment train concepts, design bases, operating philosophies, and preliminary equipment requirements.
• Understanding process integration factors including pretreatment, hydraulics, water chemistry, fouling and scaling, residuals management, energy demand, operability, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost.
• Working knowledge of process instrumentation, analyzers, PLC, DCS, SCADA, historians, industrial data platforms, advanced process control, digital twins, predictive analytics, and operational autonomy concepts.
• Experience with pilot testing, technology validation, process optimization, commissioning, troubleshooting, and performance assessment.
• Ability to evaluate technology maturity, intellectual property positioning, implementation risk, supply chain dependencies, and scale-up requirements.
• Customer-centered and outcome-oriented, with the discipline to understand the operating problem before recommending technology.
• Strong systems thinker who can connect process design, automation, operations, services, economics, and risk.
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to engage operators, engineers, customers, partners, and senior executives.
• Able to simplify complex technical concepts without losing accuracy or credibility.
• Collaborative and effective in a global, cross-functional, and matrixed organization, including through indirect influence.
• Commercially aware and comfortable supporting customer engagement, proposals, negotiations, and go-to-market planning.
• Independent, analytical, pragmatic, and willing to work directly with technologies, project teams, and customer sites.
• Committed to safety, integrity, inclusion, and responsible innovation.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, including domestic and international business trips.
• A valid passport is required.
• Eligible to legally work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree is preferred; equivalent demonstrated experience may be considered.
• Active participation in relevant water, wastewater, industrial, or engineering associations is preferred.
• Experience in one or more priority markets such as semiconductor, data centers, mining and metals, power generation, food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or municipal utilities is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Guide the company in the structuring of acquisitions, investments, partnerships to deliver on the strategic water vision.
• Providing structured insights into sequencing of these activities to ensure that the process is economically sound and de-risked.
• Develop clear value propositions and business cases that quantify customer outcomes, including water savings, energy reduction, operating efficiency, compliance improvement, asset reliability, production resilience, and resource recovery.
• Support the company in the design, evaluate, and optimize complete treatment trains that may include biological treatment, membrane separation, desalination, water reuse, resource recovery, sludge processing, and brine management.
• Provide clear economic insights into technology adoption and end user value to aide in market positioning and strategy development.
• Translate customer production, water, energy, labor, reliability, and regulatory challenges into clear technical requirements and solution concepts.
• Advise on the integration of process technologies with instrumentation, control systems, SCADA, DCS, advanced process control, digital twins, analytics, AI-enabled optimization, and asset performance solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for customer discovery, workshops, concept development, feasibility studies, proposals, pilots, and proof-of-concept activities.
• Support the assessment of emerging water technologies, strategic partners, and acquisition targets for technical fit, integration potential, scalability, operating risk, and commercial value.
• Create repeatable solution architectures, application playbooks, and portfolio roadmaps that support commercialization and adoption across Yokogawa.
• Collaborate with sales, engineering, R&D, digital, automation, services, and business leadership to advance qualified opportunities and deliver integrated solutions.
• Build productive relationships with customers, engineering firms, universities, research institutes, technology providers, and industry associations.
• Monitor regulatory developments, market needs, competitor behavior, and technology trends, and translate these insights into portfolio and business recommendations.
• Support business planning, sales enablement, investment decisions, and executive communication.
• Provide periodic reporting on activities, opportunities, risks, and outcomes while remaining fiscally responsible and compliant with company guidelines.

Benefits

• Great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior