Senior Project Manager

Company Description

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country's largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Job Description

Position Purpose:

To act as a subject matter expert in the Mission Critical department of SourceOne. Be the company technical representative to Mission Critical clients on large, complex, and time sensitive mission critical projects in Canada and the US. Provide technical guidance and coaching to SourceOne engineering teams, and interface with clients, operations teams, contractors, and design teams on all technical discipline topics, to accomplish mission critical projects for clients national infrastructure projects across the US and Canada.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

• Be a technical subject matter expert and resource for complex mission critical projects.
• Participate in complex and high-risk system tests across mission critical projects, contributing to proper planning and risk mitigation.
• Work with project teams to assess, discuss and resolve system technical issues, and prove those resolutions.
• Develop procedures, methods and test scripts for complex mission critical systems.
• Develop training resources for field commissioning teams, create and populate training database, and ensure new and existing employees have exposure to training modules.
• Develop best practices and lessons learned databases for implementation of commissioning processes and field testing procedures.
• Provide coaching to all levels of field staff and Project Managers to better understand discipline systems & controls and proper testing techniques.
• Perform commissioning reviews of facility designs and specifications, equipment submittals, and control strategies and provide comments for improvement.
• Work to secure new clients and projects, and turn those opportunities into repeat business through successfully meeting clients' needs and expectations.
• Perform regular technical reviews of Veolia/ SourceOne project data for accuracy and completeness, and provide feedback to field staff.
• Provide technical assessments and recommendations for improvement for major project reports.
• Manage other technical resources and direct their participation on Veolia/ SourceOne projects in the US and Canada.

Work Environment:

• Role requires extensive travel, and position requires employee to be away from home on assignments up to and including 75% of the time.
• Working environment requires the employee to be in High Energy areas such as central plants, switchgear rooms and power transmission areas typical of Mission Critical environments such as Power Generation Plants and Data Centers.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Background:

• Masters preferred but based on experience, accepting Bachelors of Engineering or Bachelors of Science in a relevant engineering subject such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, energy engineering or equivalent.
• >10 years of discipline industry knowledge, of which 3-5 years must have been in the Data Center industry.
• Demonstrated experience in diagnosing and solving construction and operational problems.
• Demonstrated experience managing design, energy services and commissioning projects and project resources to a pre-determined scope, fee and schedule.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge of building codes and construction industry standards, such as ASHRAE and LEED.
• Thorough understanding of Mission Critical systems associated with the MEP equipment of Data Centers and Power Plant Distribution, including but not limited to Medium Voltage Switchgear, Main Switchboards up to 5000A, Standby Generation, Uninterruptable Power Systems (UPSs), Static and Automatic Transfer systems, other applicable power transfer equipment ranging from 600V a.c/d.c and lower, HVAC equipment related to Chiller Plants, Evaporative Cooling, CRAH's, CRAC's, Pumping systems, Variable Frequency Drives. Plant control systems such as BMS, SCADA, PLCs, ALC and interconnecting communications protocols such as TCP/IP, Modbus, Canbus and others. Experience with wide ranging instrumentation from sensors, levels, pressures, temperatures and other instruments and devices typical of PID control loops.
• Be self-motivated and well versed in projects touching on large building MEP systems design, commissioning, retro-commissioning, energy modeling/analysis and construction for complex buildings.
• Contribute to engineering teams in the delivery of mechanical/electrical systems commissioning, energy and consulting on complex projects for local and national clients.
• Perform construction observations, review contract documents, develop functional test plans and execute tests for a wide variety of mechanical, and controls systems. Working knowledge of Life Safety systems is a plus.
• Execute retro-commissioning engineering/energy studies for national clients
• Contribute to design and energy projects for industrial, institutional and commercial clients.
• Produce Commissioning and Retro-Commissioning plans, schedules, procedures, and reports.
• Good people and negotiating skills.
• Good time management and able to work under the pressures of schedule demands.
• Ability to be resourceful to find solutions to fast paced complex problems.
• Able to think technically about Mission Critical systems and verbalize for a less technical audience.
• Able to drive project expectations to conclusion.
• Be financially conscious.
• Role may occasionally require times of work to happen through night-time maintenance windows or weekends as client project demands typical of the Mission Critical industry.
• Be a role model of composure for direct reports under difficult client projects.
• Be a mentor for direct reports and subject matter expert for direct report growth.
• Be able to interview and participate in the selection of candidates to fill direct report positions.

Required Certification/Licenses/Training:

• Preferred P.E. licensed in a US State, or Canadian Province but will accept EIT or member of the professional engineering body of a US State or Canadian Provincial Body.
• LEED Associate preferred but not essential.
• PMP certified preferred but not essential.
• Canadian CSA Z462 Electrical Safety qualified, or U.S NFPA 70E accepted as equivalent.
• InfraRed Thermography Certified preferred.

Additional Information

Benefits: Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental, vision, life insurance, savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteering and more. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.