Veolia 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 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 Veolia Water Tech, we realise diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organisation 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.
SUMMARY OF THE JOB
The Senior Director of Process Engineering provides strategic and operational leadership for the WaterTech NORAM process engineering function focused on the design and development of water, wastewater and biosolid treatment systems. This executive leader is accountable to all the Business Line Leaders and the NORAM Regional Leader for building and leading high-performing teams of process engineering experts, ensuring the
delivery of technically sound, commercially aligned, and operationally executable solutions across multiple industry markets.
This role is responsible for advancing engineering excellence through a balanced focus on accuracy, speed, standardization, innovation, and market responsiveness. The Senior Director will shape engineering strategy, optimize organizational capability, and drive alignment between process engineering, commercial objectives, customer needs, and long-term business growth.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in water, wastewater and biosolid treatment, strong people leadership, and the ability to translate market requirements into scalable process solutions that enhance our competitive advantage.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Leadership
- Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of the process engineering function in support of Water Tech NORAM integrated growth objectives.
- Establish engineering priorities, operating models, and capability plans that enable the business to respond effectively and at speed to market opportunities and customer demands.
- Drive the development of scalable, repeatable, and differentiated treatment solutions aligned with targeted industry segments and market needs.
- Serve as a key member of the EPP (and extended NORAM) leadership team, contributing to strategic planning, portfolio decisions, and operational excellence initiatives.
Functional Leadership & Organizational Development
- Build, lead, and develop a best-in-class process engineering organization with strong technical depth, leadership capability, and customer orientation.
- Create a high-performance culture centered on accountability, collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, and execution discipline.
- Ensure effective workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, and technical competency growth across the process engineering team.
- Champion knowledge sharing, engineering standardization, and institutional learning across projects and markets.
Engineering Excellence & Execution
- Provide executive oversight of process design activities for WaterTech NORAM, ensuring technical rigor, design integrity, and consistency across all the Business Lines in the organization.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, methodologies, review processes, and quality controls that improve accuracy, reduce risk, and accelerate delivery.
- Drive improvements in engineering productivity, cycle time, design quality, and reusability through standard tools, digital enablement, and optimized workflows.
- Ensure treatment solutions are practical, manufacturable, operable, compliant, and aligned with project and business requirements.
Market Alignment & Commercial Partnership
- Align process engineering strategy and deliverables with the needs of distinct end markets, applications, and customer segments.
- Partner closely with commercial leaders, product management, operations, and project execution teams to develop solutions that are technically robust and commercially competitive.
- Support strategic customer engagement, high-value proposals, key pursuits, and complex technical sales opportunities.
- Provide market-informed technical guidance on emerging treatment needs, competitive positioning, and solution differentiation.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Working with the Water Tech Research & Development team and the EPP Global Project Solutions Innovation Adoption team advance innovation in treatment process design, technology application, modeling, automation, and engineering work processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve speed, quality, and scalability of engineering output while maintaining strong technical and regulatory compliance.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives that reduce rework, increase standardization, and improve responsiveness to the business.
- Promote the adoption of new tools, methods, and technologies that strengthen engineering effectiveness and business value.
Risk, Compliance & Governance
- Ensure engineering activities are conducted with a strong focus on safety, environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and sound risk management.
- Maintain governance over engineering decisions, technical approvals, and design controls across the portfolio.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex process, performance, and technology issues.