Utility Engineering Lead -CUB / Wastewater Treatment / Incinerator
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Utility Engineering Lead -CUB / Wastewater Treatment / Incinerator
Utility Engineering Lead
Central Utilities Building / Wastewater Treatment / Incinerator
PURPOSE
The Utility Engineering Lead is accountable for engineering, commissioning, applicable qualification, performance verification, and technical start-up of the Central Utilities Building (CUB), wastewater-treatment plant, and incinerator.
Reporting to the Project Manager — CUB / Incinerator / Wastewater Treatment, the role leads the assigned Utility Engineers and coordinates control-engineering, supplier, and commissioning resources from requirements definition through design, procurement, installation, testing, and operational handover.
The role owns the technical integrity and integration of utility and environmental systems, ensuring they are delivered in a safe, documented, tested, and operationally ready state to support campus commissioning and manufacturing start-up.
This position will ultimately be based in New Albany, OH. Initially, however, significant travel to the design firms will be required until the design and construction teams transition onsite, anticipated for mid- to late summer 2027. Some remote work will also be necessary until an onsite office is established, potentially as early as March 2027.
We would prefer candidates to be currently residing in the Eastern and Midwestern sections of the United States. Relocation is available.
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Scope
- CUB utility generation, storage, treatment, and distribution, including steam, heating and cooling, compressed air, gases, and water systems within the assigned scope;
- Clean or process utilities where allocated to the CUB scope, including defined interfaces with manufacturing facilities;
- Wastewater collection, segregation, equalization, treatment, chemical dosing, sludge handling, monitoring, and discharge systems, as applicable;
- Incinerator waste-feed systems, combustion equipment, fuel supply, emissions controls, monitoring, and residue-handling systems;
- Associated equipment, piping, instrumentation, controls, electrical interfaces, and supporting building services;
- Utility-demand and waste-load assessments, design criteria, equipment specifications, operating requirements, and system interfaces;
- Integrated commissioning, applicable qualification, environmental-performance testing, start-up, and handover;
- Assigned engineering, commissioning, qualification, and start-up budgets and resources.
Technical Ownership and Design Integration
- Own the integrated design basis, including utility demands, waste characteristics, capacity, operating ranges, reliability, redundancy, and future-expansion requirements;
- Consolidate requirements from API, DP, laboratories, warehouse, Facilities, Manufacturing, Quality, and EHS;
- Direct engineering partners in developing balances, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, layouts, and control requirements;
- Establish system ownership, battery limits, deliverables, decision rights, and interfaces across assigned Utility Engineers;
- Resolve technical configuration decisions and ensure designs support safe operation, maintainability, monitoring, and lifecycle performance;
- Coordinate electrical, automation, civil, mechanical, and manufacturing interfaces with the responsible discipline leads.
Equipment Procurement and Delivery
- Own technical delivery of assigned utility and treatment equipment from requirements through fabrication, testing, installation, and handover;
- Lead technical bid evaluations, supplier-selection recommendations, design reviews, and vendor-document acceptance within delegated authority;
- Establish factory acceptance testing (FAT) and site acceptance testing (SAT) strategies, test coverage, and acceptance criteria;
- Direct supplier issue resolution, deficiency closure, retesting, and documentation completion;
- Ensure technical changes are assessed for safety, quality, environmental, capacity, cost, and schedule impacts.
Commissioning, Qualification, and Performance Testing
- Own the integrated commissioning and qualification (C&Q) strategy for the assigned scope;
- Coordinate system classification with Quality and Validation and define the appropriate commissioning, qualification, and performance-verification requirements;
- Establish turnover sequencing, prerequisites, system boundaries, test plans, resources, and completion milestones;
- Direct preparation, execution, and closeout of commissioning procedures, applicable qualification protocols, and performance-test reports;
- Ensure testing addresses capacity, turndown, control sequences, alarms, interlocks, duty/standby operation, failure response, and recovery;
- Coordinate wastewater and incinerator performance demonstrations against approved treatment, emissions, discharge, and operating criteria;
- Own technical resolution of deficiencies and deviations and deliver complete acceptance packages.
Start-Up and Campus Readiness
- Own the integrated technical start-up plan, including utility availability, treatment readiness, supplier support, resources, and contingency arrangements;
- Align utility and environmental-system readiness with manufacturing commissioning and start-up milestones;
- Lead readiness reviews and coordinate safe energization, utility introduction, fuel introduction, and waste-feed introduction through approved authorization processes;
- Lead troubleshooting, performance verification