Applications Engineer, Industrial WaterWastewater

Applications Engineer Industrial Water/Wastewater

Design the flowsheet price the job and be the technical voice that wins industrial water deals

Seven Seas Water Group is looking for an Applications Engineer to serve as the technical spearhead of our industrial Water-as-a-Service (iWaaS) business. Given a customers influent characterization and effluent requirements youll develop the treatment flowsheet we can confidently guarantee and price it from the ground up. Youll work closely with our origination and business development team throughout the sales cycle as the primary technical point of contact in front of a prospects own engineers and plant managers the credibility that separates an iWaaS pitch that sounds good from one that survives technical diligence. This is a hybrid role based in Tampa Florida or Houston Texas with 20 to 30% travel to customer sites suppliers and pilot work.

Who we are

Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers more than 20 billion gallons of water a year to industrial governmental municipal and hospitality customers across the U.S. Caribbean and Latin America. Through our Water-as-a-Service (WaaS) model we design build own and operate more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants taking on the capital and operational risk so our customers dont have to. SSWG is a portfolio company of EQT a global investment firm with more than three decades of experience building essential infrastructure.

What youll own

Youll translate customer influent and effluent requirements into a complete treatment flowsheet mass balance PFD and design basis that SSWG can guarantee and operate profitably for the life of a long-term contract.

That means designing for ownership:

• weighing reliability redundancy chemical and energy consumption and lifecycle cost not just capital cost
• pushing past the default treatment train to find a solution thats more clever more compact or more economical than what the competition proposes.
• draw on the full industrial treatment toolbox biological (MBR SBR MBBR anaerobic) physical/chemical (DAF clarification softening) membranes and desalination (UF RO) oxidation and disinfection (AOP ozone UV) PFAS treatment and dewatering
• be explicit about where the design basis is thin and what SSWG is guaranteeing and on what basis.

Youll also own the supplier side of the equation:

• maintaining a personal network of qualified vendors across every major unit operation
• writing clear scopes of work
• structuring supplier agreements so process performance guarantees flow through to what SSWG commits to its customers
• lead technical bid evaluations normalizing offerings and recommending selections on lifecycle value rather than purchase price.

As a key member of the pursuit team youll price jobs from the ground up developing the PFD and equipment list sizing major and minor equipment and building the capital estimate from firm supplier pricing. Youll estimate the full cost of service chemicals energy media replacement residuals handling staffing and maintenance the operating cost basis an iWaaS contract lives or dies on and own the technical content of proposals: process narrative flowsheet design basis guarantees and exclusions. At contract award youll hand off a design basis supplier commitments and estimate that hold up in execution.

• Bachelors degree in Chemical Environmental or Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline
• 10 years in industrial water and wastewater treatment in an applications process or proposal engineering role with real depth in both water and wastewater
• Direct experience with industrial clients and their waste streams (for example food and beverage chemicals semiconductor and microelectronics oil and gas pharmaceutical pulp and paper)
• Demonstrated command of the major unit operations: biological (MBR SBR MBBR anaerobic) physical/chemical (DAF clarification) membrane (UF RO) oxidation/disinfection (AOP ozone UV) PFAS treatment and dewatering
• A genuine working supplier network across those technologies
• Experience writing equipment scopes of work and negotiating process performance guarantees with suppliers
• Ground-up estimating capability: PFD development equipment selection and sizing capital estimating from supplier pricing and operating cost estimation
• Strong communicator credible in front of customers suppliers and executives alike
• A PE license is highly desired but not required. Experience with alternative delivery models like DBOO/DBOOM BOOT or Water-as-a-Service contracts and piloting or treatability study experience are both a plus.

Why this role

Youd be the technical authority behind SSWGs industrial pursuits with real influence over which deals we win what we guarantee and how we price them. If youre a creative process engineer who wants ownership from flowsheet to price to proposal this is that seat.