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 simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world.
At Water Tech, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.
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 team. In this working manager role you would work closely with the Global Process Engineering (GPE) Director, and other SME’s 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. You will at times be required to troubleshoot for sustainable operations and provide technical guidance in supporting new growth team initiatives.
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 but not limited to 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. Strengthen relationship with Technical experts from our Customers, Vendors, and regional teams globally.
- Recognized Industry Expert and Advisor: Technical Expertise in water & wastewater chemistry, applications, and in-depth expertise on competitive technologies to set the strategy for creatively unique and sustainable system for our customers.
- Creativity: As an expert, motivate, encourage outside the box thinking for creative and sustainable solutions for our customers.
- Motivator/Mentor: Implement technical knowledge sharing to lead and motivate regional process engineers with environmentally friendly optimum solutions meeting our external and Internal customer needs. Mentors next gen talent globally.
- 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 to agree on path forward.
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 managing ecological balance with highest level of quality standards for our customers.
- Champion talent development coaching/mentoring/training for the teams along with developing, implementing, and leading the transfer of knowledge/lessons learned out to the process engineering functions.
- Lead discussions with our customers Technical Experts, external EPC, and Consultants and own the overall process highlighting our creative sustainable solution against competition to agree on path forward while mitigating business exposure / risk.
- Own integrated process design reviews, along with the interaction 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, mitigation plans and work closely with regional teams to support seeking final approvals from the Process Engineering Director of GPE and our BS&P Paris office.
- Play a key role in the process of Developing new or update existing process design guidelines and provide trainings to process engineers globally.
- Analyze, review, and give advice on project / pilot / product data, provide optimization guidance, and approve technical results / recommendations on reports.
- Contribute to VWT’s market leadership through papers and presentations in conferences.