Schneider Electric · 1 month ago
Waste/Water Principal Engineer
United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $208K/yr
5+ years expSchneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity for a Waste/Water Principal Engineer (Solution Architect) that could use your talents. You will define a technical vision & strategy for projects focused on retrofit of existing water or wastewater facilities, serving as the project's technical leader and collaborating across various disciplines to ensure project success.
ElectronicsEnergyEnergy ManagementInformation TechnologyRenewable Energy
Responsibilities
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 3rdparty 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 Manage r 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. Represent the project’s technical solution during Schneider Electric management reviews of project
Collaborate with WWW project engineer and energy engineer to ensure biological process theory of operations, modeling and energy savings calculations are plausible and mitigate risks associated with the projections. Collaborate with energy engineer and measurement and verification engineer to ensure contract provides fair and reasonable methodologies for measuring and verifying performance and/or savings while adequately mitigating Schneider Electric risk
Ensure project’s contract scope of work will deliver 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
Collaborate with project development manager and pre-construction manager to ensure; 1) each project team member’s contractual scope for engineering / design, construction and ongoing services is clear and the sum of all the parts will deliver the contract scope of work, 2) project’s scope of work quantifies assumptions regarding construction phasing and means & methods that significantly impact project cost
Collaborate with our project estimator to ensure all elements of the project’s scope are included in project estimates, project’s unique construction phasing and/or means and methods are addressed, and risks are financially mitigated in accordance with risk mitigation strategies from project’s risk log
Collaborate with commissioning manager to ensure project’s contractual Commissioning Approach will smoothly transition static elements of construction into continuously operating systems with minimal impact to biological process while providing the data required to obtain project acceptance and prove delivery of contractually guaranteed performance. As applicable participate in execution of startup & commissioning services
Collaborate with our performance assurance managers to ensure project’s contractual Operations, Maintenance, Repair and Replacement Approach clearly quantifies Roles & Responsibilities for Customer, Schneider Electric and other applicable stakeholders to deliver sustained guaranteed performance throughout project’s ongoing services phase
Qualification
Required
Minimum 4-year college degree or technical degree
Experience in the Wastewater marketplace
Effective Communication and Project Management / Organization skills
Analytical thinker combined with strong systems engineering skills
Strong Customer Facing and Project Team Leadership skills
Good understanding of wastewater process, electrical systems and SCADA / instrument & control systems
Ability to understand multiple disciplines (i.e. process, architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & control, etc.) drawings, scope of work documents and schematics
Proficient in Microsoft Office programs including but not limited to, Word and Excel
Preferred
5 or more years of equivalent work experience including demonstrable experience with owning technical solutions from inception through development, implementation and sustainment in water treatment or wastewater facilities
Company
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric specializes in the digital transformation of energy management and automation.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.08BKey Investors
California State Water Resources Control BoardIdinvest Partners
2025-08-26Post Ipo Debt· $4.08B
2018-04-05Grant· $1.6M
2004-12-03Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Deepak Sharma
President - Greater India zone, MD & CEO - Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd
Jai Sharma
CFO Greater India Zone
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2026-01-08
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