Waste​/Water Principal Engineer

For this U.S. based position, the expected compensation range is $140,000 - $208,000 per year, which includes base pay and short-term incentive.

Schneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity for a Waste/Water Principal Engineer (Solution Architect) that could use your talents. You will work for a company consistently rated by Fortune as one of the “Great Places to Work” and by Glassdoor as the 11th spot as the “Best Place To Work”, by Forbes as “America’s Best Employers for Diversity”, and by Equileap as the “World’s Top 10 in Gender Equality” and by TIME as the “Most Sustainable Company in the World”.

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 who 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. This employee is a member of project leadership teams delivering projects utilizing Energy Performance Contracting, Design/Build, and Engineer / Procure / Construct contract vehicles.

Throughout the complete lifecycle of project you would be a catalyst and champion of innovation who is a highly skilled collaborator that creates the alignment required amongst stakeholders to ensure project success while embracing:

• responsibility for enabling project(s) to meet financial objectives,
• accountability for delivering customer satisfaction in the form of technical solution(s) that connect with customer stakeholders during development of projects, then perform to meet or exceed customer stakeholder expectations during construction and ongoing service phases of projects,
• technical, organizational, commercial and/or regulatory complexity in varying combinations.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily:

• 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.
  
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