Proposal engineer - Saint-Maurice, France - Veolia WTS

Description

Proposal engineer & Business Marketing Support in water treatment M/F

Graduate program - fixed-term contract - 12 months

Location of Position: France (Saint-Maurice - 94 / Toulouse - 31)

Description:

As a Veolia graduate, you will be offered a unique and robust learning experience. The 12-month graduate program runs November November 2025, and will challenge and enrich your learning to develop your skills, knowledge and confidence. The Graduate Program is our commitment to developing talented employees through:

• Structured training on both essential and technical skills
• Networking opportunities
• A dedicated support network (program leader, line manager, mentor, coach, HR manager)
• Experiential learning, delivered on a monthly basis, Including 4 in-person workshops at our key locations in Europe (you must be willing to travel internationally).
• A 6 week team Sustainability challenge to develop your entrepreneurial skills
• Quarterly reviews with your support network - a great chance for feedback
• Real and meaningful employment

The Proposal engineer & Business Support Graduate position within Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions business supports our rapidly growing Assets service business.

The successful graduate will take on a dual role – developing new designs and proposals for our sustainable mobile water treatment services across Europe (mainly for pure and process water applications on industrial and manufacturing sites primarily in France), as well as a business support element – this will include analysis and visual presentation of our operational and financial data, making smart conclusions across the different systems we use, and helping our teams to increase productivity by smart implementation of digital tools.

This graduate position is a great fit for an ambitious, creative, curious team player with great communication skills and attention to detail. We expect candidates to have an academic background in an engineering discipline ideally with knowledge of process or environmental engineering and a specialist in business development / marketing.

The successful candidate will learn about Veolia water treatment business.

Most importantly, we seek people with a diversity of experiences, backgrounds, personality types and mindsets.

The Proposal engineer role is built on teamwork, mutual support, friendly and precise communication, with personal development opportunities just as important as core engineering skills.

The second aspect of this position is Business Marketing Support to help the business to focus on areas, markets and applications of expected growth, and provide to the team the right tools to succeed. Our work scope is diverse and varied, including emergency deployments, routine applications, and complex projects based on multiple technologies such as Filtration, Ultrafiltration, Reverse Osmosis, Electrodeionization, Ion Exchange etc. We also design and propose long-term agreements for Veolia-owned water treatment plants based on mobile / containerised units.

Main Tasks

• The main responsibility of a Proposal engineer is to lead project opportunities from inquiry to order, with ethical integrity and creative thinking, to develop safe & effective water treatment solutions for our Customers.
• A typical sequence of Proposal engineer's tasks might include:
• Thorough analysis of customer request & requirement
• Development of relevant technical documents: Process Description, Process Flow Diagram, process design calculations etc.
• Participation in customer meetings (including travel to sites in Europe)
• Establishment of scope of supply and all associated costs (install, commissioning, service, consumables, chemicals, labor, 3rd party supply, freight etc.)
• Identification and mitigation of all project associated risks with a strong focus on health and safety, and environmental protection
• Proposal development with a strong focus on value proposition
• Creating attractive documents & presentations in line with brand guidelines
• Presentation of complete package to Veolia Leadership for review & approval
• The Business Marketing Support role includes data analysis (e.g. good knowledge of Excel / VBA / Tableau), ability to draw valuable conclusions from complex data sets, and awareness of basic financial concepts, working with cost models and administering internal side projects. It also includes the ability to build marketing documents for our commercial team.l
• Additionally, team members establish a strong internal network of collaborators, demonstrate negotiation skills in Customer meetings, understand contracts and commercial language of terms and conditions, and respect internal compliance and delegation of authority procedures.

Requirements:

• Working towards a degree, preferably in chemical or environmental engineering or business related course
• Experience or interest in business marketing
• Good mathematical ability, with basic knowledge of report logic and data visualization
• Candidates must be fluent in French AND English (written and verbal).

Additional language skills are beneficial as well.

• Previous experience in water and/or wastewater operation (services), engineering, or bid management is not necessary (but will come as an advantage)
• Driving license (car)
• Ability to travel occasionally, within the EU and UK

Personal skills

• Team player – this is a role strongly connected with others and built on daily communication – be able to work in a matrix organization, with others, located in different countries and cultures
• Strong focus on Customer service is key to our activities
• Friendly communication and interpersonal skills are essential
• Ability to work on own initiative and independently is required
• Commitment to quality and high standard of published work is very well received
• Ability to prioritize tasks and keep to agreed deadlines is essential

Join the Resource Revolution VEOLIA Water Technologies & Solutions looks for innovation everywhere. For more than 100 years, VEOLIA has been at the forefront of innovation, from the VEOLIA Canal to addressing water scarcity. Finding solutions to the world's biggest problems has never been more important than right now. Join us today and become an essential part of the Resource Revolution

VEOLIA's Water Technologies and Solutions (SWTS) offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. SWTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.