Applications Engineer - Commercial Projects, Water Solutions

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We are excited to share that on May 22, 2024, DuPont announced plans to separate(1) into three industry-leading, independent publicly traded companies. This strategic move will create focused businesses with distinct investment profiles. We believe the proposed separations will create opportunities for all three future companies to better serve their customers and unlock long-term value for stakeholders. This process is expected to take 18-24 months from the date of announcement to complete. We are committed to supporting our employees throughout this transition and ensuring a smooth and successful separation process. We look forward to welcoming new talent who are interested in contributing to the continued success and growth of our evolving organization.

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DuPont Water Solutions (DWS), a $1.5B global business, focused on solving global challenges in water purification, conservation, and reuse as well as purification solutions throughout the life sciences industries. DWS serves its thousands of customers in diverse markets through three major market segments, Industrial Water & Energy, Drinking Water & Desalination, and Life Science & Specialties.

DWS provides the broadest, proven, end-to-end portfolio of water-treatment and separation technologies for the production and purification of the most commercially important products around the globe. DWS is expanding our participation aligned to the megatrends such as health & wellness, sustainability and digital and we remain uniquely positioned to solve the challenges created by global population growth and increasing water stress.

Reporting to the Global Technology Leader for CCRO in the DuPont Water Solutions business, the CCRO Applications Engineer will be responsible for supporting sales growth of closed-circuit reverse osmosis (CCRO) through the technical support of commercial opportunities in industrial and municipal markets. The majority of supported activities will be within North America; however, the Water Solutions business is a global business, and you will be interacting frequently with your worldwide colleagues to maintain a competitive advantage. In addition to your responsibilities for pilots in this region, you will be a technical resource for opportunities overseas.

Please note our teams do work a hybrid schedule which is 3 days onsite and 2 days remote. Candidates should live within a commutable distance to one of our water offices or technical centers. Preferred locations are Wilmington, DE USA, Edina, MN USA, Midland, MI USA, Marlborough, MA USA.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• The function of this role is to provide technical support to the DuPont Water Solutions commercial team and other stakeholders to support opportunities at all stages from inquiry to order.
• Partner with the commercial team to support delivery of the business plan, by clearly identifying customer’s needs and leading the development of technical solution(s)
• Interpret technical specifications and bid documents as applicable and identify technical and commercial risks and opportunities.
• Develop process solutions to meet customer’s need and position these solutions to win.
• Lead the proposal preparation effort for budgetary and firm proposals.
• Prepare antiscalant and system design projections.
• Work with cost estimating to prepare detailed cost estimates and facilitate project pricing.
• Develop technical proposals, including process descriptions, scopes of work, equipment lists, performance guarantees.
• Work with commercial pilots’ technical focal point to incorporate pilot learnings into full-scale system design for proposal and guarantees as applicable.
• Present proposed solutions at customer meetings as required.
• Support industry trade shows and events as the technology expert. Participation includes presenting technical papers and presentations at conferences and in industry journals.
• Develop project Handover Packages and turnover project documentation to the execution team.
• Provide process support to the operations team during project execution.
• Identify new opportunities/product gaps and represent customer needs to the Technology Leader
• Travel for this position will be approximately 10%.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical or mechanical engineering or related fields.
• Demonstrated leadership and credibility.
• 5 years of Experience with nanofiltration and reverse osmosis technologies.
• Knowledge and experience in a variety of water treatment processes is desirable, including:
• Process water treatment processes, including clarification, media filtration, carbon absorption, softening, and specialty media(s).
• Membrane treatment processes, including micro-filtration, ultra-filtration.

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(1)The separation transactions are subject to satisfaction of customary conditions, including final approval by DuPont's Board of Directors, receipt of tax opinion from counsel, the filing and effectiveness of Form 10 registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, applicable regulatory approvals, and satisfactory completion of financing.  For further discussion of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could impact the achievement, expected timing and intended benefits of the separation transactions, see DuPont’s announcement.