Sr. Director Global Process Engineering in Oakville

Are you looking for a work in a company committed to the environment? Join Veolia! Our mission to “Resource the world” demonstrates the unwavering commitment of our 220,000 employees to creating a positive impact for our planet. By joining Water Technologies, not only will you become a Resourcer, but you will also take part in providing complete solutions for water treatment. We are looking for like-minded people who can share our passion for water treatment. Become a player in ecological transformation by joining us!

Water Tech is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial water & wastewater treatment. We serve more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day.

We are seeking a Leader for the role of Sr. Director projects to join our team of Subject Matter Experts (SME). This person would be recognized as an industry expert and an advisor on creative and sustainable solutions for water and wastewater. As the Sr. Director, you will manage a small team of senior and principal process engineers. Drive effective resource utilization and coordinate workload across the team. In this working manager role, you would work closely with the Global Process Engineering (GPE) Director and other SMEs within the Global Process Engineering Group to successfully set the strategy, suggest creative designs, review designs for new projects, providing technical support and guidance to all business units globally on integrated complex water and wastewater treatment operating systems.

The successful candidate must have strong leadership and people skills, with breadth of expertise in water and wastewater treatment solutions for industrial and emerging markets such as Microelectronics, Lithium, brine concentration, chemical and power sectors along with deep understanding on High Recovery systems and competitive technologies landscape.

Key Characteristics:

• Leader: Set and execute strategy on sustainable creative solutions for our teams and customers.
• Recognized Industry Expert and Advisor: Technical Expertise in water & wastewater chemistry, applications, and in-depth expertise on competitive technologies.
• Creativity: Motivate, encourage outside the box thinking for creative and sustainable solutions.
• Motivator/Mentor: Implement technical knowledge sharing to lead and motivate regional process engineers.
• Accountable: Responsible to lead, own and deliver creative solutions to achieve individual & business targets.
• Collaborate, Guide & Drive: Discussions with multifunctional groups, strengthen relationships and alignment.

Duties & Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible to:

• Motivate and guide our team and regional process engineers to develop creative design and solutions which are environmentally friendly.
• Champion talent development coaching/mentoring/training for the teams.
• Lead discussions with our customers' Technical Experts and own the overall process highlighting our creative sustainable solution.
• Own integrated process design reviews and interact with regional process engineers, Project Managers, Sales, Commercial Engineers, FSR’s and customers on technical issues.
• Document the process reviews observations with clear action items and mitigation plans.
• Play a key role in developing new or updating existing process design guidelines.
• Analyze, review, and give advice on project/pilot/product data.
• Contribute to VWT’s market leadership through papers and presentations in conferences.

Qualifications Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Technical Expertise, deep understanding of Competitive landscape for technology and products in the market.
• Strong leadership, team management, collaboration, and ownership skills.
• Strong Business Acumen, able to understand customer needs to propose optimum solutions.
• Self-motivated, ability to drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables.
• Expertise in 3rd Party / Vendor competitive technologies.
• Strong water chemistry knowledge.
• High Recovery membranes-based Systems.
• Excellence in both oral and written communication skills.
• Expertise in Training and Mentoring of Regional technical staff.

Education & Experience Required:

• B.S. in Chemical, Process Engineering, or other equivalent technical discipline.
• Master’s in chemical, Process Engineering, or other equivalent technical discipline.
• Minimum of 20 years engineering experience in the water and wastewater reuse industry.

Preferred:

• Phys-Chem, UF, NF, RO, IX, MLD/ZLD, Electro-deionization (EDI), thermal technologies.

Working Conditions:

Willing to travel internationally and locally up to 15-30%.

Additional Information:

We offer you the opportunity to join a Group whose goal is to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation! Be part of a forward-thinking collaborative team who will focus on your future career and development both locally and internationally.