Senior Lead Engineer

Veolia; Minnetonka (MN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Veolia Water Technology is seeking a Senior Lead Engineer to lead multi-disciplinary engineering deliveries for municipal and industrial treatment systems. You will assemble and guide teams across Process, Mechanical, Electrical, and I&C disciplines, ensuring design accuracy, timely submittals, and budget adherence.

This remote North America role requires travel 5-10% and experience with EPC contracts or large-scale projects.

Qualifications

• Impeccable planning, organization and time management.
• Clear, concise communication and presentation skills.
• Good meeting facilitation skills with clear objectives, action plans for expected outcomes.
• Team player, with the ability to exercise good judgment under changing conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver projects on schedule and within budget.
• Coordinate delivery of all engineering outputs on assigned projects.
• Support commercial team with bid activities, labor estimates, and sub-contracting strategies.
• Facilitate project team meetings and resolve conflicts.
• Serve as a customer liaison and manage client expectations.
• Ensure proper reviews of work through formal reviews and peer reviews.

Skills

Project leadership

Communication

Facilitation

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

10 years project experience

Job description

Veolia is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation.

Within this framework,Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

This position is remote and can be located anywhere in North America

The Senior Lead Engineer (LE) is accountable for multi-disciplinary engineering deliverables to our customers for custom municipal and industrial treatment systems. The LE is responsible for determining the required resources and guiding a multi-disciplinary team, to ensure accuracy of design, timeliness of submittals, and adherence to budget.

The LE, Project Manager and Sourcing Project Leader, form a project leadership team. This leadership team works together to support the job and deliver what was sold to our customers. This team works to manage the project in its entirety and generates and maintains critical project reporting.

Able to manage a team of multi-discipline engineers, or multiple teams of engineers executing project(s) with an engineering utilization rate of approximately 4,000 hours per month, or about 30 full time engineers.

Have an understanding of project execution from a commercial standpoint from sales to project closure, and support the commercial team with bid activities including technical reviews, labor estimates, and sub-contracting strategies.

Proficient in executing projects with balance of plant (BOP), and site installation scope.

Broad responsibility to direct and monitor an engineering project team. This consists of Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation and Controls engineers, as well as various project support functions (Document Control, Sourcing, Finance, etc).

The LE coordinates the delivery of all of the engineering output on their assigned projects. While the LE has a strong engineering background, it is key for an LE to be skilled at building teams, communicating a vision, and delegating work. This includes being an effective facilitator of project team meetings and deliverables, and as needed conflict resolution within the project team.

They are thoughtful, cooperative, and creative. They are able to handle multiple shifting demands with professionalism and good judgment. The LE is the face of Veolia Engineering.

Accountable and Responsible for ensuring that all engineering deliverables are completed. As part of this, the LE must ensure that proper review of work is carried out on project deliverables either through facilitating formal review processes (such as E-Table) but also through in-function review by peer engineers and/or Technical Domain Leaders with pertinent expertise. Some of these engineering deliverables include, but are not limited to Process & Instrument Diagrams, equipment drawings, datasheets, plant and piping arrangements, instrumentation and controls architecture, and design specifications.

Coordinate all engineering activities, internal and external, across all functions by using industry standard tools such as project schedules, master document lists, rolling action item lists, risks and opportunities, change orders, engineering project reports, etc.

Ensures that the technical review of vendor selection and fabrication occurs, employing the right project team members to do so.

The LE coordinates technical requirements with suppliers and ensures the project team is providing information required to our vendors on schedule. The LE supports Sourcing in vendor management; ensuring our suppliers are on track and performing to the project’s expectations.

Act as a customer liaison, working and resolving technical queries, setting and managing expectations, and maintaining a relationship with the customer.

Empowered to bring in project team members or pertinent technical domain leaders to maintain relationships with key customer counterparts.

The LE is responsible for the project team’s resource budget, and identification of potential needs for competency development of the project team to ensure a successful project.

Drive team collaboration to ensure project activities are properly coordinated to maximize engineering performance. Structure project team rhythms and meetings to drive action plans, outcomes with clear and concise communication.

Qualifications

Qualifications - Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Impeccable planning, organization and time management

Clear, concise communication and presentation skills

Good meeting facilitation skills with clear objectives, action plans for expected outcomes

Team player, with the ability to exercise good judgment under changing conditions

Education & Experience - Required:

Bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering field

Ten years project experience in engineering or a related field

Education & Experience - Preferred:

Experience with industrial processes and system engineering – direct experience in water treatment, oil & gas, chemical or power industries

Experience with EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) contracts

Professional Engineer’s License, or the ability to obtain one within 1 year

Working Conditions:

The role requires the ability to travel domestically and internationally 5-10% of the time

Additional Information

At Veolia, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Additional Information

At Veolia, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

To ensure transparency and compliance with employment laws, we provide the following details regarding this position:

Compensation:

The compensation range is tied to the market for similarly bench-marked roles. The range is not an absolute, but a guide, and offers will be based on the individual candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, as well as internal peer equity. Depending upon all the preceding considerations for the final selected individual candidate, the offer may be lower or higher than the stated range: $120,000 - $130,000 USD.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disclosure:

We do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.

Vacancy Status:

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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