Engineer - Mechanical Designer

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 Technology 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.

Summary - Responsible for the design of industrial water treatment equipment and associated components, including pumps, heat exchangers, mixers, pressure vessels, valves, and piping systems. Capable and knowledgeable of working with AutoCAD and/or SOLIDWORKS software to create 2D and 3D drawings and models.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. 

• Generates project documentation including equipment general arrangement (GA) drawings, skid/platform layouts and details, spool fabrication details as well as Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID).

• Develop site equipment layouts during bid phases to ensure system feasibility.  Travel to customer facilities for site surveys to document and understand equipment locations, restrictions and system connections when required.

• Researches and analyzes data such as customer design proposals, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application.

• Designs products or systems that include instruments, controls, motors, and/or machines.

• Support manufacturing installations activities to ensure products and systems conform to engineering design and customer specifications as well as recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions.

• Ability to interface with and collaborate with outsourced drafting and design teams

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or other Engineering Technical degree. Candidates with relevant work experience where the candidate has demonstrated the ability to perform the required duties and responsibilities may also be considered.  

• Recent graduate is preferred 

• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment.

• Ability to travel 25% of the time and live in proximity to a major airport.

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and contract documents. 

• Ability to document technical information.

• Elective college courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, drafting, CAD or manufacturing disciplines.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Detail-oriented.

• Ability to effectively present information to project and functional management and to customers, subcontractors, and suppliers.

• Ability to synthesize information from different engineering disciplines.

• Strong organizational, communication and PC skills are required.

• Adaptive, receptive and continuous learner

• SAP or other ERP system experience

• Experience with AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS and / or other CAD software.

• Preferred work based out of our Norfolk, VA manufacturing location. Proximity to other Veolia business offices may be considered.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.