WMD (Wastewater Management) Engineer - Licensed Chemical Engineer

Maynilad Water Services, Inc.; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Maynilad Water Services, Inc. seeks a WM Engineer to remotely monitor and operate wastewater collection and treatment facilities from the Central Control Room. You will handle real-time alarms, perform data analysis, and prepare reports to ensure efficient operations.

The role supports reliability engineering, identifies operational issues, and assists field operations during incidents. It also contributes to automation and integration initiatives and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Real-time alarm management experience.
• Strong data analysis and reporting skills.
• Experience supporting field operations during incidents.

Responsibilities

• Remotely monitors and operates wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
• Performs real-time management of alarms, including monitoring, analysis and early resolution and communicates SCADA alarms using verbal and electronic media.
• Prepares daily and shift-based operational reports and maintains logs and records of CCR operations.
• Fulfills data requests and analysis required by internal and external customers.
• Consolidates and updates operational databases for analysis and reporting and ensure accuracy and completeness of data across systems.
• Supports reliability engineering tasks focused on equipment, instrumentation and automation.
• Analyze operational data and provide process improvements to existing procedures and wastewater systems through innovation or guided studies.
• Identifies and documents operational issues, equipment anomalies, and safety concerns for escalation and investigation.
• Assist field operations during incidents or emergencies through remote monitoring and control.
• Provides technical input and operational data to support coordination meetings and stakeholder discussions.
• Puts the company’s operating procedures and policies into practice.
• Compile system performance reports and recommends improvement for automation and integration projects.

Skills

SCADA alarms

Data analysis

Remote monitoring

Automation concepts

Operational reporting

Process improvement

Excel

SCADA

VBA

Tools

SCADA system

Excel

VBA

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

The WM Engineer is responsible for remotely monitoring and operating wastewater collection and treatment facilities in Maynilad's Central Control Room. This role involves real-time alarm management, data analysis, and reporting to ensure efficient operations. The engineer supports reliability engineering, identifies operational issues, and remotely assists field operations during activities and emergencies. The position requires strong analytical skills, technical proficiency, and the ability to contribute to automation and integration initiatives and process improvements.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• 1. Remotely monitors and operates wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
• 2. Performs real-time management of alarms, including monitoring, analysis and early resolution and communicates SCADA alarms using verbal and electronic media.
• 3. Prepares daily and shift-based operational reports and maintains logs and records of CCR operations.
• 4. Fulfills data requests and analysis required by internal and external customers.
• 5. Consolidates and updates operational databases for analysis and reporting and ensure accuracy and completeness of data across systems.
• 6. Supports reliability engineering tasks focused on equipment, instrumentation and automation.
• 7. Analyze operational data and provide process improvements to existing procedures and wastewater systems through innovation or guided studies.
• 8. Identifies and documents operational issues, equipment anomalies, and safety concerns for escalation and investigation.
• 9. Assist field operations during incidents or emergencies through remote monitoring and control.
• 10. Provides technical input and operational data to support coordination meetings and stakeholder discussions.
• 11. Puts the company’s operating procedures and policies into practice.
• 12. Compile system performance reports and recommends improvement for automation and integration projects.

Candidates who perform well in the interview will also undergo a short open-resource practical assessment covering Excel, data analysis, and basic VBA. Aside from assessing their current technical proficiency, this is intended to identify training/development gaps and assess their resourcefulness and learning agility, especially how they use available resources to solve unfamiliar problems and translate data into workable solutions and candidate'slong-term fit with the shift-based nature of OCM and compatibility with the current team dynamics.