Senior Applications Engineer

Newterra LTD, Brockville, Ontario, Canada

Job Description

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM

Be a part of the Future of Sustainable Water Solutions with Newterra!

At Newterra, we’re not just engineering solutions—we’re redefining how industries manage water and wastewater sustainably. Every project we take on is a step toward a cleaner, greener planet, and our design team plays a vital role in making this vision a reality.

That's why we’re looking for a Senior Applications Engineer to join our mission. This isn’t just a job. It’s an opportunity to contribute to critical water treatment systems that drive efficiency and sustainability in industries like Food & Beverage, Energy, Manufacturing, and more.   

Here, every design tells a story—one of smarter systems, more sustainable practices, and a shared commitment to preserving our planet for future generations. If you’re ready to be part of a team that’s making waves in industrial water solutions, we’d love to hear from you!

At Newterra, we believe in taking the important step of investing in our employees. That is why we offer competitive benefit programs. Our Benefit programs include Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, Life Insurance, AD&D, STD, LTD, RRSP Employer Match, Paid Holidays, and Paid Vacation as well as Sick Time.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary:

 Newterra is solving the world's most impactful water problems from providing drinking water for communities to cleaning hard to treat industrial effluent for reuse or return to the environment. The Senior Industrial Applications Engineer at Newterra plays a key role in this mission of providing industrial water treatment systems to address these needs. This position collaborates with sales, engineering, and procurement to tailor solutions for clients. Responsibilities include evaluating customer requirements, defining system design features, costing solutions accurately, and preparing bidding packages.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Review customer specifications, resolve issues, clarify requirements, and budget for non-standard requirements.
2. Work with the sales and operations teams to develop commercial strategies for competitive projects and document strategy sessions.
3. Verify designs from the process design group (or Develop process designs that) meets client project requirements. Also has the ability to perform process design as when needed.
4. Collaborate with suppliers and procurement to obtain component and equipment costs.
5. Prepare proposals including technical equipment details, draft process flow diagrams and layout drawings, influent parameters, discharge criteria, clarifications, customer technical questionnaires, and appendices.
6. Work with the sales team and supervisors to manage bid submission information. Estimate project schedules. Respond to customer questions.
7. Lead or heavily contribute to the developing new or existing tools, products, and processes as part of continuous improvement initiatives.
8. Able to create budgetary estimates from industry experience.
9. Be a source of water systems knowledge and mentor junior level applications engineers.
10. Perform cost estimate and proposal reviews for simple and complex systems.
11. Lead Newterra’s highest profile projects during the sales process.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing duties in a safe manner and promoting safety in accordance with Newterra’s safety policies and procedures.
• Comply with Quality Management Systems in accordance with Newterra’s internal quality standards.
• Complete all responsibilities while ensuring adherence to Newterra’s Delegation of Authority.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Environmental, Etc.)
• More than 10 years’ experience in designing and budgeting water treatment systems.
• Substantial experience in application areas: designing reverse osmosis…
• Travel availability at <5% annually.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite (SharePoint, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and the ability to learn new computer applications quickly.
• Ability to work independently and work collaboratively with others to achieve a common goal.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and attention to detail.

Information

• Location: Canada

Industry experience

Education: Bachelor

Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant

Years of experience: 10 to 20 years

Taxonomy

• Industrial
• Solutions
• Ontario, Canada
• water treatment
• Water and Wastewater Design engineer
• water and waste water process instrumentation and solutions
• Water Engineering Director