Waste​/Water Principal Engineer

Join us as a Waste/Water Principal Engineer and become the technical expert who transforms complex customer challenges into winning solutions. The Waste/Water Principal Engineer (Solution Architect) defines a technical vision & strategy for projects focused on retrofit of existing water or wastewater facilities, then functions as project’s technical leader whom collaboratively integrates across many disciplines and a diverse portfolio of external / internal stakeholders to ensure that the sum of all the parts achieves the project’s vision.

• Define Technical Vision / Strategy for the project including bringing innovative solutions to projects and collaboratively translating customer stakeholder needs & wants into project goals, objectives, requirements and boundaries.
• Key contributor to project’s Sales / Client Management strategy and Project Development Plan with go/no-go authority regarding messaging of project scope, costs, path to contract, development process & schedule.
• Collaborate with project core team to quantify resource needs necessary for achieving technical strategy. Assist core team with procuring resources including; defining format and content of deliverables, defining scope of services, and developing / negotiating Design Professional Agreements with 3rd party engineers. Build and maintain effective relationships with 3rd party technical resources, manufacturers and/or contractors.
• Facilitate Stakeholders & Resources to gain and maintain alignment between project’s technical, financial and contractual solutions while identifying and quantifying risks in project’s risk log. Collaborate with the Project Development Manager to manage project’s risk log and influence stakeholders to mitigate Schneider Electric risk while achieving a mutually beneficial allocation of risk to customer, Schneider Electric and other applicable stakeholders.
• Provide the technical leadership to align work products/deliverables with project’s technical strategy ensuring customer satisfaction and solutions quality, including the following.
• Facilitate and influence decision making of technical subject matter experts and other applicable stakeholders to ensure delivery of contractually guaranteed performance to the customer while meeting project goals and objectives within the project’s requirements, boundaries and risk mitigation strategies from project’s risk log. As required assist with issue(s) resolution during project’s final design, construction and ongoing service phases to resolve scoping and/or performance issues within boundaries of Schneider Electric’s contractual commitments.
  
  Represent the project’s technical solution during Schneider Electric management reviews of project.
• Collaborate with WWW project engineer and energy engineer to ensure biological process theory of operations, modeling and energy savings calculations are plausible and mitigate risks associated with the projections. Collaborate with energy engineer and measurement and verification engineer to ensure contract provides fair and reasonable methodologies for measuring and verifying performance and/or savings while adequately mitigating Schneider Electric risk.
• Ensure project’s contract scope of work will deliver contractually guaranteed performance to the customer while meeting project goals and objectives within the project’s requirements, boundaries and risk mitigation strategies from project’s risk log
• Collaborate with project development manager and pre-construction manager to ensure;
  1) each project team member’s contractual scope for engineering / design, construction and ongoing services is clear and the sum of all the parts will deliver the contract scope of work,
  2) project’s scope of work quantifies assumptions regarding construction phasing and means & methods that significantly impact project cost.
• Collaborate with our project estimator to ensure all elements of the project’s scope are included in project estimates, project’s unique construction phasing and/or means and methods are addressed, and risks are financially mitigated in accordance with risk mitigation strategies from project’s risk log.
• Collaborate…