Utility Engineering Lead -CUB / Wastewater Treatment / Incinerator
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Bayer in Columbus, OH is seeking an experienced Utility Engineering Lead to oversee design, commissioning, qualification, and startup for central utilities, wastewater, and incineration systems. You will coordinate engineering, supplier, and commissioning teams, ensure safety and compliance, and support campus manufacturing start-up with travel to design firms and eventual onsite work.
The role demands a decade of utility/industrial experience, strong leadership, and fluent English, with
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental, Process Engineering or related discipline.
- Typically 10+ years of relevant utility, industrial-treatment, or regulated-manufacturing engineering experience.
- Demonstrated leadership of engineering, commissioning, and start-up for major utility or environmental-infrastructure projects.
- Broad experience across central utilities and treatment systems with ability to lead engineers.
- Strong understanding of equipment integration, utility reliability, process safety, environmental-performance requirements, and GMP utility qualification.
- Proven multidisciplinary leadership, supplier management, troubleshooting, cost management, and communication skills.
- Fluent English required.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated design basis for utility demands, waste characteristics, capacity, and operating ranges.
- Coordinate with API, DP, laboratories, facilities, manufacturing, and EHS to consolidate requirements.
- Lead engineers in developing balances, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specs, layouts, and control requirements.
- Manage budgets and resources for engineering, commissioning, and start-up.
- Direct supplier evaluations, design reviews, FAT/SAT strategies, and acceptance criteria.
- Oversee commissioning, qualification, and performance-testing activities.
- Lead start-up plans and align readiness with manufacturing commissioning.
Skills
Education
Job description
At Bayer, we believe work should matter. Every day, our teams push toward a future where "Health for all, Hunger for none" is within reach, and every role, from the lab to the field to the boardroom, helps us get there. We give people the ownership to shape outcomes, the support to grow through new skills and experiences, and a global community where different perspectives are valued. If you want your work to count and the room to become your best, you'll find it here.
The Utility Engineering Lead is accountable for engineering, commissioning, applicable qualification, performance verification, and technical start-up of the Central Utilities Building (CUB), wastewater-treatment plant, and incinerator.
Reporting to the Project Manager — CUB / Incinerator / Wastewater Treatment, the role leads the assigned Utility Engineers and coordinates control-engineering, supplier, and commissioning resources from requirements definition through design, procurement, installation, testing, and operational handover.
The role owns the technical integrity and integration of utility and environmental systems, ensuring they are delivered in a safe, documented, tested, and operationally ready state to support campus commissioning and manufacturing start-up.
This position will ultimately be based in New Albany, OH. Initially, however, significant travel to the design firms will be required until the design and construction teams transition onsite, anticipated for mid- to late summer 2027. Some remote work will also be necessary until an onsite office is established, potentially as early as March 2027.
We would prefer candidates to be currently residing in the Eastern and Midwestern sections of the United States. Relocation is available.
- CUB utility generation, storage, treatment, and distribution, including steam, heating and cooling, compressed air, gases, and water systems within the assigned scope;
- Clean or process utilities where allocated to the CUB scope, including defined interfaces with manufacturing facilities;
- Wastewater collection, segregation, equalization, treatment, chemical dosing, sludge handling, monitoring, and discharge systems, as applicable;
- Incinerator waste-feed systems, combustion equipment, fuel supply, emissions controls, monitoring, and residue-handling systems;
- Associated equipment, piping, instrumentation, controls, electrical interfaces, and supporting building services;
- Utility-demand and waste-load assessments, design criteria, equipment specifications, operating requirements, and system interfaces;
- Integrated commissioning, applicable qualification, environmental-performance testing, start-up, and handover;
- Assigned engineering, commissioning, qualification, and start-up budgets and resources.
- Own the integrated design basis, including utility demands, waste characteristics, capacity, operating ranges, reliability, redundancy, and future-expansion requirements;
- Consolidate requirements from API, DP, laboratories, warehouse, Facilities, Manufacturing, Quality, and EHS;
- Direct engineering partners in developing balances, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, layouts, and control requirements;
- Establish system ownership, battery limits, deliverables, decision rights, and interfaces across assigned Utility Engineers;
- Resolve technical configuration decisions and ensure designs support safe operation, maintainability, monitoring, and lifecycle performance;
- Coordinate electrical, automation, civil, mechanical, and manufacturing interfaces with the responsible discipline leads.
- Own technical delivery of assigned utility and treatment equipment from requirements through fabrication, testing, installation, and handover;
- Lead technical bid evaluations, supplier-selection recommendations, design reviews, and vendor-document acceptance within delegated authority;
- Establish factory acceptance testing (FAT) and site acceptance testing (SAT) strategies, test coverage, and acceptance criteria;
- Direct supplier issue resolution, deficiency closure, retesting, and documentation completion;
- Ensure technical changes are assessed for safety, quality, environmental, capacity, cost, and schedule impacts.
- Own the integrated commissioning and qualification (C&Q) strategy for the assigned scope;
- Coordinate system classification with Quality and Validation and define the appropriate commissioning, qualification, and performance-verification requirements;
- Establish turnover sequencing, prerequisites, system boundaries, test plans, resources, and completion milestones;
- Direct preparation, execution, and closeout of commissioning procedures, applicable qualification protocols, and performance-test reports;
- Ensure testing addresses capacity, turndown, control sequences, alarms, interlocks, duty/standby operation, failure response, and recovery;
- Coordinate wastewater and incinerator performance demonstrations against approved treatment, emissions, discharge, and operating criteria;
- Own technical resolution of deficiencies and deviations and deliver complete acceptance packages.
- Own the integrated technical start-up plan, including utility availability, treatment readiness, supplier support, resources, and contingency arrangements;
- Align utility and environmental-system readiness with manufacturing commissioning and start-up milestones;
- Lead readiness reviews and coordinate safe energization, utility introduction, fuel introduction, and waste-feed introduction through approved authorization processes;
- Lead troubleshooting, performance verification, and stabilization of utility and treatment systems;
- Assess the implications of infrastructure delays or operating restrictions and recommend mitigation measures.
- Coordinate with EHS and specialists to incorporate permit conditions, operating restrictions, monitoring obligations, and safeguards;
- Ensure process-safety and design-review actions are closed before relevant testing or start-up milestones;
- Verify readiness of operating procedures, training, maintenance and calibration plans, critical spares, and emergency arrangements;
- Complete technical handover, including as-built records, test documentation, operating limitations, residual risks, warranties, and outstanding obligations.
- Lead assigned Utility Engineers and coordinate control-engineering and C&Q resources;
- Set priorities, allocate system ownership, review deliverables, and develop team capability;
- Own approved engineering and C&Q budgets within delegated authority, including forecasts, accrual inputs, cost-to-complete, and recovery actions;
- Monitor partner performance and correct technical-quality, productivity, resource, or delivery gaps;
- Maintain integrated technical risks, decisions, changes, and readiness reporting.
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental, Process Engineering, or a related discipline;
- Typically 10 or more years of relevant utility, industrial-treatment, or regulated-manufacturing engineering experience;
- Demonstrated leadership of engineering, commissioning, and start-up for major utility or environmental-infrastructure projects;
- Broad experience across central utilities and treatment systems, with demonstrated ability to lead specialist engineers;
- Strong understanding of equipment integration, utility reliability, process safety, environmental-performance requirements, and applicable GMP utility qualification;
- Proven multidisciplinary leadership, supplier management, troubleshooting, cost management, and communication skills;
- Fluent English required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental, Process Engineering, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $xx.00 to $xx00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive compensation (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc..
This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.
This posting will be available for application until at least 11-16-26.
Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.
Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.
Location: United States : Ohio : Columbus || United States : Ohio : COLUMBUS S || United States : Ohio : COLUMBUS W
Division: Pharmaceuticals
Reference Code: 894764
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Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com
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