Senior Engineer, Water & Wastewater Systems

Nestlé Purina North America; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé Purina North America in St. Louis, MO is seeking a Senior Engineer Industrial Services (Water and Wastewater) to provide technical leadership across factories by deploying standards, governance routines, risk assessments, and capital project support for wastewater and water systems.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure water quality, food safety, and environmental compliance, while driving improvements in system performance and risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of progressive engineering experience in wastewater treatment, water systems and quality, industrial utilities, environmental compliance, capital project support and/or technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise for wastewater treatment and incoming water systems, including process water, potable water, water pretreatment, wastewater treatment operations, discharge compliance, sampling, monitoring and system performance improvement.
• Develop, maintain and deploy technical standards, best practices, checklists, performance expectations and governance routines.
• Partner with market and factory engineering, environmental, quality, food safety, maintenance, operations and sanitation teams to identify and mitigate risks related to water quality, food safety, chemical contamination, cross-connections, capacity, treatment chemicals and water system integrity.
• Support wastewater and water capital projects including front-end engineering input, project scope development, technology and equipment selection guidance, design review, cost and risk input, commissioning and validation expectations, technical acceptance criteria and governance support.
• Lead and assist with technical assessments, incident reviews, root cause analysis, corrective action plans and risk-based improvement plans related to wastewater excursions, permit exceedances, incoming water quality issues, chemical contamination events and water-related food safety concerns.
• Build capability across the North American factory network through partnership with market and local training resources, coaching, technical communities of practice, knowledge sharing, standard work deployment and support for audit and/or regulatory-readiness activities related to water and wastewater systems.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline

Job description

Nestlé Purina North America in St. Louis, MO is seeking a Senior Engineer Industrial Services (Water and Wastewater) to provide technical leadership across factories by deploying standards, governance routines, risk assessments, and capital project support for wastewater and water systems.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure water quality, food safety, and environmental compliance, while driving improvements in system performance and risk management.