Missions
For more than 160 years, SUEZ has been providing essential services to protect and improve quality of life in the face of growing environmental challenges. SUEZ enables its customers to provide access to water and waste services through innovative and resilient solutions. Present in 40 countries with 40, 000 employees, the Group also enables its customers to create value throughout the life cycle of their infrastructure and services, and to drive their ecological transition by involving their users. In 2024, SUEZ supplied drinking water to 68 million people worldwide and sanitation services to 44 million people. The Group produced 8 TWh of energy from waste and wastewater. In 2024, SUEZ generated revenue of €9.2 billion.SUEZ Digital Solutions, the Group's differentiating lever, offers its public and private customers digital solutions that aim to improve their operational performance and reduce their environmental footprint.
Thanks to its network of data and artificial intelligence experts, SUEZ Digital Solutions supports local authorities and companies in their environmental and circular transitions, as well as citizens, to facilitate their access to more sustainable consumption.
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
Profil recherché
Education/Certifications/ExperienceBSc/BEng or higher in Civil/Environmental Engineering
1+ years of professional experience in the water sector
Chartered Member of a recognised engineering institution or working towards the chartership
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
- Excellent communication skills
- Project management experience
- Ability to manage customer experience and relationships
- Strong presentation and teaching abilities
- 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
- 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.