Proposal Procurement Lead

Company 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 designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation.

Within this framework, Water Tech 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.

The Proposal Procurement Lead (estimator) is an individual contributor role that is responsible for determining the current/expected material costs of Veolia Water Tech‑supplied equipment to establish the budget during the project's execution.

This role can be performed from any of our key sites in the U.S.A. or Canada. Key sites:
Trevose, Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Virginia, Minnetonka, Minnesota, Boulder, Colorado, Houston, Texas, Oakville, Ontario

Be a Strategic Partner to help to WIN projects, ensuring successful execution and improving margins

• Work in conjunction with different stakeholders such as Project Proposal/Sales, Category Team, Engineering, Logistics, Quality, and Procurement to develop the best and optimized cost strategy for the projects, which include materials and procurement labor
• Coordinate and lead project teams, focusing on procurement, during the tender phase
• Guide project cost strategy utilizing quotations, vendor contracts, material costing database, cost standards and historical data
• Develop and maintain cost standards, tools, and records to assist in future costing
• Collaborate with project execution teams on cost strategy transfer and REX (Return‑on‑Experience)
• Evaluate risk and contingencies to be included in proposal material costing;
  Develop and maintain familiarity with current and expected market conditions that affect costs
• Maintain skills for the utilization of Company software, such as Google Suite and SAP
• Adhere to the Company Values, Ethics, and Safety Policies
• Ability to provide Cost estimation on 3rd party material cost

Hard Skills

• Above average mathematical skills and mechanical aptitude in an engineering environment
• Solid understanding of costing methodology, ability to apply logic and reasoning to properly develop costs with limited input
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, fabrication drawings, and specifications
• Above average knowledge in engineering equipment or a manufacturing environment

Soft Skills

• Effective communication & Team Spirit
• Expert:
  Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field
• Strategic:
  Gets the big game. Understands long‑term. Respects short term but doesn’t get hung up in the noise
• Inspirational:
  Ability to inspire/ motivate others
• Curious:
  Ability to pose high‑impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where others see problems
• Courageous:
  Champions ideas and helps transform them into actions
• Humble:
  Respectful towards peers, team members, leadership, and stakeholders
• Holistic:
  Think Customer and Company first
• Accountable:
  Demonstrates responsibility, ownership, and commitment. Taking responsibility for making tough calls when necessary
• Ambitious:
  Identifies underlying truths and comes up with ideas that change the way we conceptualize issues, depicting a vision of the future that rallies teams to compete in new ways.

• 7 + years of combined work experience in the Water & Wastewater sector or other EPC environment as a Mechanical or Commercial engineer.
• Project management, Procurement, and Supply chain background/experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

• Candidate with an MBA, Master's Degree, and/or certification like CPM/CPSM, PMP, etc.
• Solid understanding of procurement sub-functions and water treatment technologies (products and operations).

Working Conditions

• Annual travel required.