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About Veolia North America
A subsidiary of Veolia Group, Veolia North America (VNA) 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. VNA
helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and
municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in
Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has approximately 10,000 employees
working at more than 350 locations across the continent. Please visit
our website www.veolianorthamerica.com.
Job Description
BENEFITS
Veolia\'s comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off
policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. 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.
Position Purpose:
Functions as a Department Manager and a subject matter expert for
controls systems support required for the operations of a surface water
treatment plants, wells, wastewater treatment plants and remote
facilities in the potable water distribution and wastewater collection
systems. Under the direction of the Director of Operations Technology,
this position will be responsible for the maintenance, troubleshooting,
design, installation, and upgrade to support reliable operations of all
plant and remote-facilities control systems.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
- Broad knowledge and skills in all aspects of controls engineering,
industrial instrumentation and control devices is required.
- Responsible for ensuring the Utility SCADA standards are maintained
and the control systems are in compliance with Veolia, Industry,
State, and Federal cyber security rules, guidelines, policies, and
best practices for the Idaho Water System.
- Proactively evaluate, enhance, and develop preventative maintenance
activities for instrumentation and control devices in the systems.
- Responsible for management of data acquisition originated from
SCADA, or similar data source to ensure data quality and
availability for the operation / business needs.
- Responsible for the administration, operation, maintenance, repair,
and reporting from the eOps system.
- Execute preventative maintenance and corrective maintenance
activities.
- Key member of the Veolia Idaho Smart SCADA upgrade project team.
- Responsible for the operation and maintenance of the control systems
hardware/software, communication networks, and historical database
systems.
- Responsible for maintaining control system on-call/emergency
coverage. Some night and weekend emergency work is required.
- Troubleshoot systems; perform root cause analysis, identify
resolution options, implement best alternatives.
- Oversee vendors for work performed on control systems and related
devices, such as: RTU modules, VFD\'s, Chemical pumps, Flowmeters,
WQ instrumentation, etc.
- Support operations, engineering, and corporate departments in
defining control system requirements balancing cost, efficiency, and
security.
- Travel - Must respond to remote locations to troubleshoot, repair,
and improve control systems as required to maintain continuity of
service for customers and regulatory compliance.
- Maintain and repair the control system communications, including
plant fiber optic, routers, switches, firewalls, cellular modems,
and serial radios.
- Develop operational procedures, reports, etc. Supporting operations
and to ensure regulatory compliance and the requirement of both
internal and external clients.
- Coordinate with the Utility M&S control system group with regards to
SCADA standards, significant system changes, problem-solving
assistance. Keep proper and timely updates and communication.
- Coordinate with Veolia\'s Corporate IT group with regards to
Industrial Control System cyber security, network maintenance, and
computer system maintenance.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education/Experience/Background:
- B.S. degree in Engineering or related technical field or 5+ years\'
experience (as described below).
- 3 to 5 years of management experience required.
- Demonstrated team development and management experience.
- 5+ years in control system technology.
- Experience in water or wastewater treatment plants and system
facilities. Preferable but not required.
- The position requires that the skill sets be current.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Knowledge of widely used control system packages such as Rockwell, GE
Proficy, GeoSCADA or similar required.
Hands-on experience in PLC/HMI system programming required.
Familiar with basic electric AC/DC circuits, control wirings, function
block programing, and ladder logic controls programming.
Network and remote communications including radio, cellular, and TCP/IP
networking a plus.
Excellent interpersonal a