Job Summary
If you enjoy learning new technologies, traveling and have a passion for water, this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for. The Water Engineering Program (WEP) is an exciting entry point for recent engineering graduates with interest in the Water business, and the rotational engineering stream allows engineers to be exposed to multiple roles within our North America Projects Business. This program develops technical problem-solving and leadership skills through project work through the bid, execution and start-up phases with a
significant focus on practical experience.
During the 3 year program duration, the first 18 months will be devoted to practical experience while working with Veolia’s Commissioning or Pilot teams where you will spend considerable time working at Veolia’s customer sites starting up various technologies and systems across a variety of markets (Municipal, Industrial, Food & Beverage, Microelectronics). You will develop significant technical experience across several engineering disciplines including mechanical, electrical, process and controls/automation.
The remaining 18 months are office-based where you will focus on a specific technical discipline for 12 months in either the commercial or execution phase of Veolia’s projects in addition to a 6 month rotation with a business-focused discipline. Examples of engineering rotations are: Applications Engineering, Project Engineering, Process Engineering and Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls Engineering. Examples of business-focused rotations are: Project Management, Finance, Product Management, Sales/Commercial.
The WEP is designed to provide in-depth exposure to Veolia’s major product lines, integration with project execution teams, as well as integrated formal training. This role prepares new graduates for a wide variety of roles within the Veolia WTS business.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Months 1-18 Commissioning Rotation: The Commissioning Group is responsible for the efficient and safe start-up of Veolia’s water treatment plants. This includes ensuring process equipment and control systems perform per specifications, performing specific PLC/HMI activities including Control System IO checkout, system networking, program upload/download, and providing technical instruction and assistance to customer representatives all while maintaining a strong safety mindset.
- Months 1-18 Pilot Rotation: The Pilot Group performs pilot studies on customer sites to test our water and wastewater treatment technologies’ performance on the customer’s water source. Pilot studies are performed using our fleet of pilot equipment mainly focused on membrane bioreactors, (MBR), ultrafiltration (UF) membranes, reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, and physical-chemical processes such as clarifiers and dissolved air floatation (DAF). The Pilot Project Manager coordinates all aspects of the study in collaboration with our customer and an internal team. The role combines aspects of project management, process engineering, and on-site field service. Pilot studies can include a wide variety of pilot-scale water treatment technologies. The Pilot Project Manager represents the company and builds relationships with customers that contribute to securing future business for full-scale projects.
- Months 19-36 Engineering/Leadership Rotations -
- Develop project design documents, with engineering responsibility, depending on rotational position. Documents such as P&IDs, PFDs, Mass and Energy Balances, General Arrangement Drawings, Electrical Single Line Diagrams, Electrical Schematics, Control Narratives.
- Perform overall system calculations that support the overall flowsheet development. This includes process modeling, hydraulic profiles, detailed mechanical equipment sizing calculations, line sizing, power requirements etc. Expectation is that in each rotational stop, the WEP rotational engineer will develop an understanding of these requirements to ensure design quality, the budget requirements, and customer expectations.
- Develop the abilities of each function over the rotational period such that they are able to perform the engineering deliverables of the role, with limited supervision.
- Gain an understanding of our customer profiles and their needs and objectives. This includes the strategic positioning of our solutions, an understanding of market pricing and Veolia’s ability to be profitable within that market.
- Understand and build the capability to cost overall project segments and be able to support bid teams to develop competitive proposals that differentiate Veolia in the market.
- Where required, support the manufacturing of skidded solutions and/or Veolia products
- As part of a team provide technical expertise to customers through technical submissions, meetings (both virtually and in person).
- Actively participate in an assigned technical development cohort with peers new Veolia for the development of knowledge of Veolia products and design practices.
- Be accountable for the delivery of assigned work, and communicative of the achievement of deadlines or if support is needed.
- Be active in establishing individual development plans and work towards achieving milestones surrounding that development.