Water Treatment Field Technician

Company Description

Veolia Group 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 Tech 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.

Veolia's Mobile Water Services business continues to grow and we are looking to add to our team of traveling field service technicians that supports our industrial water and wastewater treatment systems. The ideal candidate would have 3 - 10 years minimum related experiences. An associates degree in industrial maintenance, engineering technology, or environmental sciences is a plus.

In this role, you will be a key part of the world’s largest water treatment and environmental services company. You will directly make the world a better place by supporting our mobile systems that help our clients mitigate pollution from entering the environment, minimize their water consumption, and optimize their process.

Through your travels to local, regional, and national clients, you will gain experiences in power, oil & gas refinery, chemical process, food & beverage, mining, and steel production. Within these industries, you will be learning and growing your skills in support of a variety of water treatment processes, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and remote monitoring applications.

Veolia has over 350 proprietary technologies across the full water cycle; drinking water, wastewater, and sludge management. You will be directly working with sand ballasted clarification, high rate filtration, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, ion exchange processes, and specialty chemicals (coagulants, flocculants, and CIP cleaners).

Starting within the Mobile Water Services team will give you a broad exposure to industries, technologies, and a huge network of professionals across the globe allowing you to grow within the department or launch your career within another Veolia business locally or abroad.

• Provide at deployment; onsite start-up, commissioning, training, preventative maintenance, water analysis, inspections, troubleshooting, repairs, cleaning, system optimization, and reporting
• Manage and procure spares
• Manage and perform overhauls, factory acceptance testing, inspections, and rebuilds to water treatment systems
• Manage and supervise various subcontractors
• Work a hybrid and flexible schedule, including home office and travel (client sites / deployments, Veolia HQ, maintenance depots)
• Mostly overnights include 2, 3, or 4 consecutive weekdays; however, occasionally trips include a weekend night and less seldom extend up to 10 - 14 consecutive nights. The travel would include driving regionally and flying elsewhere throughout the US with an average 8 - 12 overnights per month
• Ability and on occasion push / pull 40 lb. RO membranes, lift 50 lb. bags of sand, carry up 90 pounds (two 5 gallon pails) 50 feet
• Ability and on occasion enter, inspect, and work in a confined space
• Build relationships and add value to our internal and external stakeholders

• Management and supervise subcontractors
• Manage and supervise mobilization and demobilizations
• Provide onsite process enhancements to deployed / operating projects
• Provide onsite adjustments to operating parameters of deployed projects
• Consult with customers on questions concerning equipment erection requirements and protocol.
• Place equipment into operation and instruct users in use and care of equipment
• Investigate and correct malfunctions – repair and calibrate when necessary.
• Inspect completed installations prior to placement of equipment into operation.
• Report problems…