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Consultant to join the Water Safety Services Marketing Team. This role focuses on conducting water safety audits and developing water safety plans that help reduce waterborne pathogen risks. The associate will support customers across North America primarily with Global High Tech. This opportunity is ideal for candidates who enjoy frequent travel, regular customer interaction, and solving complex problems. Advance your career with a global leader in water safety services.

What's in it For You:

• Join a growing company with competitive pay and benefits.

• Receive a comprehensive benefits package from day one, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, a company-paid pension, stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement, and more.

• Build a long-term career path in service, sales, or management.

• Work in a safety-first culture that includes training and personal protection.

• Take pride in working for a company that supports clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments.

What You Will Do:

• Develop a strong understanding of industry best practices for reducing waterborne pathogen risk, with an emphasis on plans that manage risks associated with Legionella and other pathogens.

• Conduct on-site water system assessments and summarize findings in technical reports.

• Support customer review meetings by presenting key findings and service reports.

• Help customers manage water management program compliance and performance.

• Create and deliver water safety training for customers and field representatives.

• Present educational seminars on best-practice guidelines for facility water safety management.

• Partner with sales teams to schedule and conduct water safety site surveys and assessment services.

• Support marketing and technical projects during non-travel periods.

• Travel to customer locations across North America approximately 40% to 60% of the time.

• Prepare customer offers for water safety programs and services.

Location:

Preferred location is Chicago, Illinois, or the eastern United States, from New York to Washington, DC, with proximity to a major airport.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences or a related field.

• 5 years of technical experience

• 50% or more overnight travel

• Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a science-related field, such as biology, microbiology, or engineering.

• Experience preparing detailed technical reports

• Knowledge of risk assessment and mitigation strategies for waterborne pathogens in building water systems.

• Experience in marketing, technical consulting, or customer-facing roles.

About Nalco Water:

In a world with increasing water shortage and contamination challenges, Nalco Water, an Ecolab company, helps customers conserve more than 161 billion gallons of water each year. We work with customers across the world in the light industry (institutional, food & beverage, manufacturing, transportation, textile care, and global high tech) and heavy industry (chemical, downstream, paper, mining, power and primary metals industries) to reduce, reuse, and recycle their water while protecting their systems and equipment. Nalco Water provides the unique opportunity to work with a broad suite of technologies to deliver automated monitoring systems, data analysis and deep technical expertise to increase efficiency, sustainability and performance for our customers.

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Benefits

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Potential Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

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