Project Manager, Water treatment and reuse​/recycle

Location: Vimercate

Every day, we make the world cleaner, safer and healthier – protecting people and vital resources. Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services. Around the world, businesses in food service, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose ECOLAB products and services to keep their environment clean and safe, operate efficiently and achieve sustainability goals.

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In the Nalco Water Division, reporting into the Engineering Team, you are in charge of water treatment equipment projects for our industrial customers. Those projects include water pretreatment, post-treatment with a specific focus on reuse/recycle projects. This encompasses the different aspects from design to start‑up, including technical and commercial offers preparation as support to sales team, selection of suppliers as well as full project management.

We are looking for a Project Manager (M/F) covering Italy.

Your missions

Analyze customer’s request to clarify his needs and define design solutions for water pretreatment, post-treatment and wastewater/reuse/recycling. This includes process engineering with treatment line definition, mass balance, sizing and costing.

Participate in field pilot-tests where necessary at customer site.

Support the Sales Teams in charge of the customer accounts and act as partner and provider of reliable and added‑value solutions.

Actively participate into the technical, commercial and contractual negotiations until the customer’s purchase order is received.

Manage the projects execution from the order processing to the installation start‑up and hand‑over to customer, including technical files compilation.

Coordinate with the different stakeholders like Sales Teams, customers, suppliers, contractors as well as internal players and act as a leader on the projects.

Participate in the service’s development by fostering tools development and margins optimisation.

Track the projects time and costs using dashboards that you will maintain up to date.

Be a member of European virtual wastewater/reuse/recycling team with opportunity to cover European projects outside Italy

Position home‑based or office‑based in the headquarters or regional offices (Milano).

Regular field trips at customer sites as a support to the local Sales Teams as well in Europe outside Italy are required (approx. 35% of the time).

Desired profile

Engineering education (in the field of water treatment, chemistry, mechanical/hydraulics, …) with at least 5 years of experience in reuse/recycle/wastewater projects (biological treatment).

Experience and understanding of the general industrial processes and those in connection with water.

Experienced in process designing of water reuse/recycle and wastewater treatment (biological treatment).

Experienced in water pretreatment (standard filtration systems
-RO, UF, Media…-).

Competent in project management.

Good communication skills with all kinds of contacts (internal and external; from field to plant manager).

Customer oriented, open‑minded, willing to learn and to progress.

Good knowledge in mechanical and electrical engineering, instruments and automation.

AutoCAD & Visio knowledge is an added advantage.

Office Pack literacy compulsory.

Fluent Italian and English (oral and written) compulsory.

Valid driver’s license (for driving in Italy/Europe) compulsory.

What we offer

Full‑time, permanent contract

Training to our services, equipment and products

Competitive pay based on experience

Multiple employee advantages: expenses, laptop, mobile phone, health insurance, social benefits, profit sharing

Broad autonomy

Multiple career opportunities inside Ecolab

Compensation Range
The annual pay range for this position is 55,600–69,500–83,500 EUR.

Benefits
Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market‑competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families.  to see our benefits.

Collective Agreement Information (Italy)
In Italy, Ecolab applies the National Collective Labour Agreement for the Chemical Industry (CCNL Industria Chimica).

Equal Opportunity / Diversity
Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right.

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