JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGERS
OPTIMATICS CAREERS
The success of Optimatics depends upon the strength of our team. We work closely with our employees to provide a challenging and rewarding work environment.
OUR TEAM MEMBERS ENJOY
- Diversity-friendly workplace
- Flexible working arrangements
- Funding for your home workspace
- Funding and support for your professional development
- A truly agile development work style – ask us about it!
- No overtime
- No on-call roster
- Vibrant and wholesome social office environment
- Not a big, faceless consultancy
- Work with unique artificial intelligence algorithms
- Making a genuine positive difference in the world
“At Optimatics, I am entrusted with challenging tasks that lead me to improve my skills in many areas, and it is a supportive and empowering work environment.”
Ashley L., Senior Software Engineer
“At Optimatics, I get to learn from a brilliantly innovative team from across the globe who shares a genuine passion for addressing challenges in the water industry. There is an unparalleled respect for work-life balance and no shortage of interesting projects to engage on! I couldn’t ask for a better place to work.”
Ari F., Optimization Engineer
“’Innovation’ is a buzz word thrown around a lot in our industry, but at Optimatics it is something very real that we strive towards. This, alongside a strong culture for pursuing excellence in everything that we do, makes me proud to be a part of the Optimatics team.”
Stephen W., Senior Software Engineer
“A great place to work but, more importantly, a great opportunity to make a positive change for the benefit of society.”
Tom W., VP Global Sales
OPTIMATICS
SENIOR OPTIMISATION ENGINEER – UK
Optimatics is looking for a highly motivated water/wastewater engineer to join our Strategic Support Team. As part of the Strategic Support Team, you will support existing and new clients’ use of the Optimizer™ software to help optimise planning decisions within water infrastructure networks. Candidates should have strong backgrounds in hydraulic modelling and an ability to work closely with clients to help train and deliver successful hydraulic optimisation analyses.
Understanding of and experience working with water utility networks, both collection and distribution
Distribution/transmission system modelling experience (e.g., EPANET, WaterGEMS, InfoWorks WS Pro)
Collection system H&H modelling experience (e.g., EPASWMM, InfoWorks ICM, MIKE 1D)
Proficient in GIS software (ESRI ArcGIS and/or QGIS)
Technical:
- Excellent communication skills
- Project management experience
- Ability to manage customer experience and relationships
- Strong presentation and teaching abilities
- Business skills in preparing and presenting business cases, communicating value to customers, and dealing with business process change
Support and guide utility and consultant engineers’ and planners’ applications of the Optimizer™ software
- Deliver and guide user trainings and ongoing education
- Explore opportunities for new applications with users
- Provide strategic direction and insights for customers’ planning efforts
- Assist with hydraulic model and input data review & preparation
- Manage support and delivery projects
- Use customer feedback to inform roadmap for software development
- Provide technical business development support and assist with development of marketing strategies and materials
- Test new functionality and identify upgrades to Optimizer™
- Assist with software and project documentation
- Attend and contribute to industry conferences and professional organisations
- Travel to current and potential customers (as appropriate)
- Understanding of and practical experience working on public utility asset management challenges & projects
- Knowledge of and experience with optimisation techniques and their application to water systems
- Experience with Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or other languages
- Data science experience, including data interpretation & visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI)
- Be Agile: We are agile within our software development, how we support our customers around the world, how we sell our solutions, and how we operate within our company. We will adapt to any situation to ensure we’re providing the highest-quality outcome.
- Delight & Serve: We pride ourselves on delighting and serving our customers. Our customers are our core, and we’ve heard from them time and again with proof that we’re hitting this value on target!
- Deliver Innovation: Since our beginning as a university research project, this has been a core value: to deliver something that is different, valuable, and ahead of the curve.
- Quest for Excellence: We have a passion for the software we deliver, how we deliver it, and how we can continue to make our customers successful going forward. We are always striving to improve and do better.
- Trust is a Must: We practice “trust is a must” throughout our organization. From internal accountability to one another, to what our customers expect from us, we hold ourselves to a high standard in this area. We do what we say, and we say what we do.
Core Values: Defining and living by this set of vital, timeless, guiding principles has been key to our success. The right candidate will share Optimatics’ core values:
- BSc/BEng or higher in Civil/Environmental Engineering
- >5 years of professional experience in the water sector
- Chartered Member of a recognised engineering institution
OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER/SENIOR OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER – NORTH AMERICA
Optimatics is looking for a highly motivated water/wastewater engineer or data scientist to join our Strategic Support Team (SST). You will be joining a team of innovative thinkers and engineers working at the forefront of applying optimization and machine learning to water systems. As part of the SST, you will work directly with utilities from around the world on applications of optimization and machine learning to optimize planning decisions within water infrastructure networks.
The SST is responsible for assisting, educating, and guiding users of Optimatics software as well as delivering pilot applications. The level of support that Optimatics provides customers goes far beyond that of traditional tech companies – support engineers act more like project partners for our utility and consulting clients. Candidates should have strong backgrounds in hydraulic modelling, data science, or optimization and be able to work closely with clients to help train and deliver successful hydraulic optimization analyses.
- Understanding of and experience working with water utility networks, both collection and distribution
- Distribution/transmission system modelling experience e.g., EPANET, WaterGEMS, InfoWorks WS Pro (additional collections system modelling experience is preferred)
- Experience with asset management, data science, or risk assessment
- Proficient in GIS software (ESRI ArcGIS and/or QGIS)
- Excellent communication skills
- Project management experience
- Ability to manage customer experience and relationships
- Strong presentation and teaching abilities
- Business skills in preparing and presenting business cases, communicating value to customers, and dealing with business process change
- Deliver and guide user trainings and ongoing education
- Provide strategic direction and insights for customers’ planning efforts
- Assist with hydraulic model and input data review & preparation
- Deliver applications of the Optimizer™ or AssetAdvanced™ software in connection with a range of hydraulic modelling software and datasets
- Manage support and delivery projects
- Explore opportunities for new applications with users
- Identify and scope new functionality as appropriate
- Test new functionality and identify upgrades to Optimizer™
- Assist with software and project documentation
- Use customer feedback to inform roadmap for software development
Support business development including:
- Provide technical business development support and assist with development of marketing strategies and materials
- Represent Optimatics at industry conferences as appropriate
Travel to current and potential customers (as appropriate)
- Understanding of and practical experience working on public utility asset management challenges & projects
- Knowledge of and experience with optimisation techniques and their application to water systems
- Experience with Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or other languages
- Data science experience, including data interpretation, & visualization tools
- Proficiency in Japanese or experience working on and managing international and multilingual projects
Be Agile: We are agile within our software development, how we support our customers around the world, how we sell our solutions, and how we operate within our company. We will adapt to any situation to ensure we’re providing the highest-quality outcome.
Delight & Serve: We pride ourselves on delighting and serving our customers. Our customers are our core, and we’ve heard from them time and again with proof that we’re hitting this value on target!
Deliver Innovation: Since our beginning as a university research project, this has been a core value: to deliver something that is different, valuable, and ahead of the curve.
Quest for Excellence: We have a passion for the software we deliver, how we deliver it, and how we can continue to make our customers successful going forward. We are always striving to improve and do better.
Trust is a Must: We practice “trust is a must” throughout our organization. From internal accountability to one another, to what our customers expect from us, we hold ourselves to a high standard in this area. We do what we say, and we say what we do.
- BSc/BEng or higher in Civil/Environmental Engineering
- 1 – 3 years of professional experience in the water sector
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If you meet the qualifications listed above, have an unmatched drive to succeed, and possess the willingness to work hard to reach your goals, please submit your resume.
