Project Structurer - Cost Models, Maintenance, and Capital Projects

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.

Position Purpose:

The Facility and Building Services division of Veolia North America is a provider of utility operation and maintenance services for utilities infrastructure in light and heavy industry.  We provide these services at 50 sites across the United States at plants that require water, wastewater, steam, cooling, power and combined heat and power utilities to support their production processes.

The position of Structurer will reside in our business development team, support the building of value propositions, and build and manage execute cost models for operations, maintenance and capital projects as part of our complex project development process.  The position serves as a liaison between developers, process engineers for water and wastewater, capital project management (CPM), operations general managers, and finance.  This role holds responsibility to develop accurate and competitive cost models based on best practices at our existing portfolio of projects, in either response to an RFP or in support of a Veolia developed solution.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assemble of benchmarks for best practices at our existing portfolio of projects, and ongoing maintenance of benchmarks.
• Develop project staffing plans and their required disciplines in operations, maintenance, and management, based on benchmarks and activity analysis.
• Projects will be focused on Utility O&M services, asset upgrade, and new infrastructure in light and heavy industry.
• Build accurate, competitive wage rates and personnel availability based on benchmarks, indexes and third party consulting services.
• Build accurate and competitive maintenance estimates based on benchmarks and activity analysis.
• Organize SLA’s, specialty contractors, third party analytical and other services as required to support the complex development process.
• Support CPM in scoping and estimating capital projects or interfacing with E&C partners.
• Develop mobilization plan, schedule and cost estimate. 
• Support project developers in building value propositions, defining scope,  make/buy analysis, and setting fee structures.
• Identify project risks, mitigating strategies, and due diligence requirements, perform sensitivity analysis and support internal risk review process.
• Review RFP’s, support project developers and proposal teams and validate compliance of offers, and review contract terms and conditions in reference to project scope and fees.

Education/Experience/Background:

• Minimum 10 - 15 years of progressive experience in structuring and Utilities O&M within light and heavy industry.
• Direct experience in steel, chemical/petrochemical, power, automotive and API Pharmaceutical markets within heavy industry.
• Background in industrial water, wastewater, steam, cooling, power, and combined heat and power.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of utility operations in light and heavy industry.
• Ability to build relationships at customer sites with key stakeholders, internal VNA development teams, internal VNA operations managers.
• Ability to support 25% travel to customer locations, and VNA corporate hubs.

Pay Range: $120000 to $140000 Per Year.

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.

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.