Hydroinformatics Engineer (9)

Hydroinformatics Engineer

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at theforefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

The Hydroinformatics Engineer will be responsible for the development and implementation of algorithms and analytics for operational optimization of water distribution, wastewater collection, and treatment systems through the use of real time data, hydraulic modelling, machine learning, and advanced control systems.A Hydroinformatics Engineer is a multidisciplinary engineer with optimization and hydraulic modeling skills and a passion for using data to improve urban watershed environmental and societal impact.

This position offers the opportunity to join Xylem Vue team in their endeavor to revolutionize the ways water utilities solve age-old infrastructure problems.

We offer a full benefits package to include Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried positions, health, dental, vision, investment savings plan, and additional miscellaneous benefits.

Core responsibilities include:

• Act as the subject matter expert to configure, calibrate and deploy digital twin simulation services for optimizing the operation of water and wastewater networks.
• Solve complicated, open-ended water resources problems by applying optimization techniques and innovative data analytics over sensor data and hydraulic models.
• Communicate and collaborate with teams of engineers and decision makers to define problems, strategize solution approaches, and bring solutions to implementation.
• Develop and manage large datasets. Communicate summaries and conclusions drawn from data in clear and concise ways, visually and verbally.
• Translate data analytics into language understood by engineers and data analysts, both in the practitioner and research space
• Participation in Xylem Watermark volunteer activities

Minimum qualifications include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil/Environmental/Chemical/Mechanical Engineering; preference given to those with advanced technical degrees or training.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in water, sewer or stormwater modelling.
• Hydraulic modeling software for drinking water networks (EPANET or similar) and (or) stormwater networks (SWMM or similar).
• Previous experience programming in software languages such as Python, R, C, MATLAB, etc.
• Experience with modern data science workflows for data access and filtering, geospatial analysis, and model parameter estimation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and eager to develop new skills.
• A creative mind and hands-on problem-solving abilities.
• Fluent in English.

The estimated salary range for this position is $100k - $135k CAD plus bonus. Starting pay is dependent on multiple factors, such as skills, experience and work location, and is not typically at the top of the range.

At Xylem, we embrace diversity and strive to create avenues where employees feel valued and appreciated through our DE&I initiatives and Employee Resources Groups (ERG). Xylem is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action workplace. Xylem prohibits discrimination, harassment of any kind and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or sexual orientation (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, marital status, medical conditions or disability, genetic information, age, or other non-merit factors.