Advanced Lead Researcher – Membrane Engineering & Applications

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Job Summary
This position advances Veolia’s GreenUp goals of promoting sustainability and improving the environment by reducing water usage and carbon emissions within our company and for our customers.
The position is based in the Technology or R&D department in Minnetonka, MN, and also involves travel to other Veolia and customers sites that will test or implement our new membrane separation products.
The work is mostly on site, and requires working with internal and external manufacturing and project teams as well as Technologists. The position reports to the Manager of Membrane Technology and works largely independently with the manager while helping to build a new team and membrane product line. The job involves strong chemical and mechanical engineer skills, manufacturing and production engineering aptitude, as well as interest in research and product development.

Key Characteristics:
• Plans and execute projects with attention to budget and schedule
• Effective communicator who excels at working with external customers and internal stakeholders to overcome challenges and achieve goals.
• A team leader who can work independently, but also reaches out to others in the organization when expertise or resources are needed.

Duties & Responsibilities
• Lead pilot testing of separation membrane applications in-house and at customer sites, including travel up to about 20% of the time.

• Develop and conduct process simulations to model membrane performance and optimize flow sheet design for specific applications.
• Scale up membrane and module production processes from pilot scale to production
o Lead design and modification of production equipment to enable manufacture of new
products

• Design and build test equipment for separation membranes
o Optimizes design of modules using CFD and similar design optimization tools, as well as
experiments to verify design performance.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Knowledge: .
o Chemical Engineering, including separations fundamental and modeling
o Mechanical design principles for industrial separations equipment
• Skills: Practical abilities developed through training, education, or experience.
o Good communication and presentation skills
o Use and development of process simulation software
o Project management acumen
o Design and drawing skills for equipment, ability to make P&ID’s
o Ability to use computational fluid dynamics software to optimize membrane module
design
• Abilities:
o Mechanical aptitude in building, troubleshooting and servicing equipment
o Creativity in design and implementation of new equipment.

Qualifications

Education & Experience
Required:
• BS, MS or PhD in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or
Membrane Science or similar area.
• Industrial work experience for BS or MS candidates of 5-10 years, PhD candidates without
industrial work experience will be considered
Preferred:
• Licensed professional engineering certificate
• Project management experience

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

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