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Join UCC Environmental, a leader in sustainable technology solutions:

Looking for a career where your work has real impact? At UCC Environmental, you’ll join a company built on solving complex industrial challenges while advancing sustainable solutions for air, water, and solids handling around the world.

We’re a privately held, family-owned business with more than a century of experience supporting mission-critical industries. Our teams work with utility power providers and heavy industrial customers globally, delivering innovative solutions in environmental compliance, material handling, and high-performance aftermarket technologies.

At UCC Environmental, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and long-term customer relationships. With continued growth across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, we offer opportunities to contribute meaningfully to an expanding international business.

Headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, UCC owns and operates sales, manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing facilities across the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your work has purpose, and your career can grow alongside a global organization, UCC Environmental could be the right fit!

The Sr. Engineer Mobile Solutions will serve as UCC’s program lead for the business and proposal development along with strategic execution of assigned projects. This person will lead the customer facing initiative for growing UCC’s mobile equipment focused project activities including but not limited to; Sales Development, Proposal Development, and Contract Execution.  Requiring an entrepreneurial mindset, leading the UCC initiative and working with both direct leads and Field Sales to drive leads and opportunities within the equipment offering field of solutions.  The drive for this position will be to identify and close projects at end user and strategic partner customers.  Partner with stakeholders and UCC collaborators as the point person for supporting functions in the project focus.  Stays focused on both UCC owned assets while also gaining partnerships in the industry to complement the UCC portfolio.

The Sr. Engineer Mobile Solutions:

• Coordinates with the Mobile Solutions Program Director on opportunities involving UCC mobile assets.  Works with the Field Sales and Sales Management team to identify projects worth direct follow-up.  Develops and maintains market competitive data to be able to respond quickly to customer needs.
• Sales Focus – Collaborate with Sales Management, Field Sales and Marketing to build out a pipeline of project opportunities.  For projects identified as equipment focused, take lead on working with customers or field reps to close business.
• Travel with sales team regularly to support equipment focused jobs at end user locations.
• Specific tactics include: Analyzing pricing structure, Determining best technology train for each application and maintaining a knowledge of the market landscape.
• Report to upper management status, successes, challenges, and metrics in a concise and consistent format.
• Channel Management / Support – Collaborate effectively with identified 3rd party strategic sales partners.  Evaluate effectiveness of 3rd party partners and recommend areas of improvement, change management and new opportunities.
• Execution – Develop a regular cadence of collaboration with other UCC stakeholders such as finance, project controls, project management, systems engineering and operations to ensure project completion is done accurately and timely.
• Marketing and Innovation Support – work with the marketing team to develop web-based assets such as cases studies and SEO optimization.  Represent UCC at various tradeshows and follow up on lead generation activities.  Keep a pulse of the market and equipment being deployed in the field for investment recommendations.
• All other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technology equivalent experience
• Experience (5+ Years) in a customer-facing role with specific knowledge of the industrial water / wastewater sector including technology evaluations and process application engineering
• Experience in Continuous Improvement/Lean or Process Development

Characteristics and Skills:

• Strong entrepreneurial mindset to optimize and grow an already successful offering.
• Broad experience working with customers on water / wastewater solutions.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high pressure, deadline driven environment.
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to balance team activities and individual work.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate. 
• Highly creative when solving complex problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Thorough knowledge of MS Office applications and ability to perform complex analytics in Excel.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Prior experience with Microsoft Dynamics, Prism and other analytics software preferred.

Essential Physical Abilities:

• Ability to sit or stand at a computer, or in a manufacturing environment, for 80% of the day
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
• Ability to perform sustained physical effort handling, moving loading and unloading components in/on/off pallets containers, crates etc.
• Ability to work in awkward and strained work positions that require physical agility.
• Requires the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Core Values and Beliefs

Must be aligned with Core Values and Beliefs that drive UCC’s existing corporate culture;

• People – we trust and invest in our people, unlocking their full potential and they always come first
• Teamwork – we respect others and create a collaborative working environment of inclusion and inspiration
• Integrity – we are truthful and respectful to customers, employees, community and suppliers
• Customer Satisfaction – we keep existing customers by delivering exceptional customer service
• Innovative –we encourage resourceful problem solving in the face of adversity

Compensation and Benefits:

Base Pay Range:  $110,000 to $130,000 annual pay based on skills and experience

Benefits:             

• Insurance: Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, Employee Assistance Programs and Voluntary Options such as Vision, HSA, FSA (Medical, Dental, Vision and Dependent Care), Accident, Identity Theft, Legal coverage
• Retirement:  401(k) with up to 4% company match, Pre-Tax and Roth Options, and discretionary Annual Profit-Sharing contribution
• Time Off:  10 days of Vacation, Vacation Purchase Plan up to 10 days purchased per year,  5 days of Sick and 10 Holidays, Parental Leave, FMLA
• Miscellaneous: Student Debt Assistance, Tuition Reimbursement, Certification and License Reimbursement, Personalized Professional Development Plans and Career Path Options.

How to Apply:

If interested in this position, please apply online via our website at https://uccenvironmental.com/careers/  and select Explore Current Openings to apply for this position online.

UCC Environmental is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Disability/Veteran. If you have difficulty applying for this job online, by e-mail, or need accommodations, please call us at 847-473-5900 and ask for Human Resources.