Hybrid VIE Associate Optimisation Engineer - H/F bei Suez

Depuis plus de 160 ans, SUEZ apporte des services essentiels pour protéger et améliorer la qualité de vie, face à des défis environnementaux grandissants. SUEZ permet à ses clients de fournir l'accès à des services d'eau et de déchets, par des solutions innovantes et résilientes. Présent dans 40 pays avec 40 000 collaborateurs, le Groupe permet également à ses clients de créer de la valeur sur l'ensemble du cycle de vie de leurs infrastructures et de leurs services, et de conduire leur transition écologique en y associant leurs usagers. En 2024, SUEZ a fourni de l’eau potable à 68 millions de personnes dans le monde et des services d’assainissement à 44 millions de personnes. Le Groupe a produit 8 TWh d’énergie à partir des déchets et eaux usées. En 2024, SUEZ a réalisé un chiffre d’affaires de 9,2 milliards d’euros.

Levier de différenciation du Groupe, SUEZ Digital Solutions propose à ses clients publics et privés des solutions digitales qui visent à améliorer leur performance opérationnelle et à réduire leur empreinte environnementale.

Grâce à son réseau d’experts de la donnée et de l’intelligence artificielle, SUEZ Digital Solutions accompagne les collectivités et les entreprises dans leurs transitions environnementale et circulaire, ainsi que les citoyens pour leur faciliter l'accès à une consommation plus durable.

Notre ambition : accélérer le développement et le déploiement de solutions digitales à fort impact environnemental pour relever nos défis de demain, comme la préservation de la ressource en eau et la valorisation de nos déchets.

VOTRE MISSION 

Optimatics is looking for a highly motivated water/wastewater engineer or data scientist to join our Strategic Support Team. As part of the Strategic Support Team, you will support clients’ use of the Optimizer™ software to help optimise planning decisions within water infrastructure networks and contribute to the delivery of pilot projects. Candidates should have good communication skills, a deep understanding of utility networks, and strong data science backgrounds.

Essential Duties

1/ Support and guide utility and consultant engineers’ and planners’ applications of the Optimizer™ and AssetAdvanced™ software including:

• Support delivery of user trainings and ongoing education
• Provide strategic direction and insights for customers’ planning efforts

• Assist with hydraulic model and input data review & preparation
  

2/ Deliver pilot implementations of the software:

• Deliver applications of the Optimizer™ software in connection with a range of hydraulic modelling software
• Deliver applications of the AssetAdvanced™ software
• Explore opportunities for new applications with users
• Identify strategies for improved user experience, efficiencies, or automation
  
  

3/ Contribute to product development, including:

• Test new functionality and identify upgrades to Optimizer™
• Assist with software and project documentation

4/Travel to current and potential customers (as appropriate)

The VIE will be based in Chicago

VOTRE PROFIL

Technical:

• Understanding of and experience working with water utility networks, both collection and distribution
• Distribution/transmission system modelling experience (e.g., EPANET, WaterGEMS, InfoWorks WS Pro)
  Collection system H&H modelling experience with InfoWorks ICM (other software will be an advantage, e.g. EPASWMM, MIKE 1D)
• Proficient in GIS software (ESRI ArcGIS and/or QGIS)
•  Advanced data analysis skillsets including coding or data visualization software

Non-Technical:

• Excellent communication skills
• Project management experience
• Ability to manage customer experience and relationships
• Strong presentation and teaching abilities

Preferences :

• Understanding of and practical experience working on public utility asset management challenges & projects
• Knowledge of and experience with optimisation techniques and their application to water systems
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or other languages
• Data science experience, including data interpretation & visualization tools (e.g. PowerBI)
• Experience working on international and multilingual projects

Core Values:

• Defining and living by this set of vital, timeless, guiding principles has been key to our success. The right candidate will share Optimatics’ core values:
• Be Agile: We are agile within our software development, how we support our customers around the world, how we sell our solutions, and how we operate within our company. We will adapt to any situation to ensure we’re providing the highest-quality outcome.
• Delight & Serve: We pride ourselves on delighting and serving our customers. Our customers are our core, and we’ve heard from them time and again with proof that we’re hitting this value on target!
• Deliver Innovation: Since our beginning as a university research project, this has been a core value: to deliver something that is different, valuable, and ahead of the curve.
• Quest for Excellence: We have a passion for the software we deliver, how we deliver it, and how we can continue to make our customers successful going forward. We are always striving to improve and do better.
• Trust is a Must: We practice “trust is a must” throughout our organization. From internal accountability to one another, to what our customers expect from us, we hold ourselves to a high standard in this area. We do what we say, and we say what we do.