Senior Project Engineer

Seven Seas Water Group

Tampa, FL

Estimated pay: Est. $18–$27/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Description:

**Seven Seas Water Group**

Seven Seas Water Group (www.sevenseaswater.com) is a portfolio company owned by investment funds managed by EQT. Headquartered in Tampa, with operations across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers annually over 20 billion gallons of water to industrial, commercial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers. SSWG designs, builds, owns, and operates, delivers new facilities, or acquires and upgrades existing facilities, with the goal of optimizing project risk transfer between the public and private sectors. We have more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants in operations throughout the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. With an outstanding reputation for decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions, the SSWG “Water-as-a-Service®” approach seeks to help solve global water and wastewater infrastructure challenges.

SSWG operates two businesses within the water infrastructure space. Seven Seas Water, which provides water treatment and desalination for governmental, hospitality and industrial customers in United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the AUC Group (www.aucgroup.net), which provides decentralized water and wastewater treatment plants for industrial and municipal customers in the United States.

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of more than three decades of developing companies across multiple geographies, sectors, and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT has EUR 273 billion in total assets under management (EUR 141 billion in fee-generating assets under management) as of 30 June 2025, within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.

***This role is remote, with a preference for candidates located in or near Tampa, FL or Houston, TX, where our team has a regional presence***

**Job Summary**

The Senior Project Engineer is accountable for all aspects of engineering necessary to deliver water treatment systems (primarily Reverse Osmosis systems treating seawater and brackish water) to be operated by Seven Seas Water (Operations Group) on a long term basis delivering water to municipal and industrial customers. The Project Engineer has ownership of all engineering activities necessary to delivery turn key solutions on green field and brown field sites. This includes in house engineering, 3D design, I&C engineering, full SCADA development, and 3rd party engineering subcontracts for civil, structural, building, permitting, etc. as needed to support the turn key project delivery.

Requirements:

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:**

• Act as the lead engineer for assigned projects; support the project manager in execution of engineering project deliverables. Liaise with project team and customer in delivering the project.
• Take ownership of the P&ID’s and the Integration of the project across all disciplines to ensure a consistent design across all disciplines and documentation.
• Prepare engineering documents within specified dates, such as P&ID (Piping and Instrument Diagram), foundation loading charts, valves list, rotating equipment (pumps, blower etc.) data sheets, static equipment data sheets (storage tank, pressure vessels) heat exchanger data sheet, paint and lining matrix, piping and valve specs.
• Prepare Material Purchase Specifications (MPS) for equipment, valves, instruments, vessels, piping, paint, lining, etc. along with review and release of technical bid evaluations (TBE’s) for the packages. After the PO, review and approve supplier submittals as needed to ensure compliance with on schedule execution.
• Coordinate heavily with 3D Plant Design Team to complete 3D Plant Design of new water treatment facilities. The Project Engineer will not do CADD work, but is responsible for delivering annotated construction drawings of high quality to deliver a safe, operable, and efficient plant design.
• Facilitate HAZOP and Plant Design Reviews for new plants built by the company.
• Maintain detailed BOMs into company ERP system (IFS) and issue purchase requisitions using ERP system.
• Direct and approve the work of mechanical AutoCAD designers completing mechanical and process drawings.
• As required, assist Business Development with costing on new plants proposed by the company.
• Assist in the completion of operational procedures for new plants built by the company.

**Qualification/Requirements:**

• Strong technical knowledge of seawater and brackish water reverse osmosis technology and applications, domestic and industrial wastewater treatment technologies, and related water industry technologies, trends, and standards
• Expert in the reading and interpretation of mechanical drawings such as P&IDs, PFDs, and GA’s