S2E12 - How to Consistently Deliver on the Promise as a Consultant Engineer? - a podcast by Antoine Walter

with 🎙️ Maika Pellegrino - Senior Project Manager, Water & Wastewater @Jacobs

💧 Jacobs was the World's n°1 Design Firm for the third year in a row as per ENR's ranking in 2020

What we covered:

🍏 How Engineering is at the same time a fundamental pillar and an often-overlooked field of the Water Industry.

🍏 How Equipment, Procurement, and Construction companies play different roles from one geography to another

🍏 How EPCs, OEMs, Consultants, and Industry Players collaborate, intersect or compete

🍏 How Consultant Engineers deal with long-term project planning and customer relationships

🍏 How their catalyst role brings many skills and professions together to warranty a successful outcome

🍏 How engineering is another way to play Lego

🍏 How dealing with a client's vision sometimes goes far beyond technical aspects

🍏 How engineers cannot be agnostic and have their favorite treatments (but also know when to be pragmatic!)

🍏 What's the right level of granularity to manage a project, and shall you really care about this valve?

🍏 How to deal with innovation and how this goes again far beyond the technical side of things

🍏 How having nature working for you might be challenging but so rewarding

🍏 How knowledge vanishes with the Silver Wave (and what to do about it)

🍏 How communication and politics influence the fate of water projects

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Maika Pellegrino on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maikapellegrino/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-consistently-deliver-on-the-promise-as-a-consultant-engineer

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