Field Service Engineer

Transdev - Plainfield, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Plainfield, IL

10,001+ employees

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

About the position

As a Field Service Engineer at Veolia, you will play a crucial role in the commissioning of Evaporator and Crystallizer units, ensuring that process equipment and control systems perform according to specifications. Your responsibilities will include acting as a construction liaison between design engineering and construction teams during the commissioning of thermal systems. You will provide technical instruction and assistance to customer representatives regarding the installation, operation, calibration, repair, and maintenance of equipment at customer sites. Additionally, you will manage the activities of outside vendors and suppliers, ensuring that services and supplies meet project specifications and performance requirements. You will be responsible for developing log sheets to document and monitor equipment operation, as well as creating and executing Commissioning Schedules and Performance Plans. Training will also be a significant part of your role, as you will develop and conduct both classroom and hands-on training regarding the operation and maintenance of process equipment. Participation in P&ID Reviews, Model Reviews, Engineering Design Meetings, and Safety in Design reviews will be essential to ensure the accessibility, maintenance, and operation of process equipment. Your role will also involve performing control system factory acceptance tests with clients and client-designated representatives, as well as providing after-market services such as site inspections, equipment inspections, and operator training. The position requires travel in support of domestic and international trips, with an anticipated travel requirement of 60-70%. You will maintain a strong safety mindset to ensure that all executed work reflects the technical requirements within Veolia's safety standards. Timely and accurate technical reports for customer records and future reference will also be part of your responsibilities. You will need to apply mathematical operations to tasks such as water treatment chemistry calculations, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of budgets, and monitoring Time & Material (T&M) contract costs. Furthermore, you will be expected to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions to improve operations and determine the feasibility of design works.

Responsibilities

• Commissioning of Evaporator and Crystallizer units ensuring process equipment and control systems perform per specifications.
• Act as a construction liaison between design engineering and construction during the commissioning of thermal systems.
• Provide technical instruction and assistance to customer representatives regarding installation, operation, calibration, repair, and maintenance at customer sites.
• Manage activities of outside vendors and suppliers, assuring services and supplies meet project specifications and performance requirements.
• Develop log sheets to document and monitor equipment operation.
• Develop and execute Commissioning Schedules and Performance Plans.
• Develop and execute classroom and hands-on training regarding the operation and maintenance of process equipment.
• Participate in P&ID Reviews, Model Reviews, Engineering Design Meetings, and Safety in Design reviews to ensure accessibility, maintenance, and operation of process equipment.
• Perform control system factory acceptance tests with clients and client-designated representatives.
• Perform after-market services such as site inspection, equipment inspection, and operator training.
• Travel in support of domestic and international trips; anticipated travel 60-70%.
• Maintain strong safety mindset to assure the executed work reflects the technical requirements within Veolia safety standards.
• Prepare timely and accurate technical reports for customer records and a reference for future outages.

Requirements

• Preferred Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or Process Engineering with a minimum of 3 years of experience in power plants, chemical process facilities, or wastewater treatment plants.
• Possess basic chemistry knowledge (including water treatment) and communicate that information to others.
• Must know structural, mechanical, hydraulics, electrical, piping, welding specifics, and civil notations.
• Ability to document technical information.
• Strong problem-solving skills, detail-oriented.
• Ability to write procedures and manuals that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information to functional management and to customers, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Ability to synthesize information from different engineering disciplines.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Strong PC skills and familiarity with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.
• Training in Lock-Out/Tag-Out procedures preferred.
• Operating experience with water treatment equipment, including evaporators, crystallizers, reverse osmosis systems, microfiltration, clarification, and conventional filtration.

Benefits

• PTO, 6 floating holidays plus 9 bank holidays
• Work from home hybrid policy twice a week
• Excellent benefits