Senior Director Process Engineering NORAM

This position can be based in the following locations: Virginia, Minnetonka, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington.

We're seeking a strategic and highly experienced Senior Director of Process Engineering to lead the design and development of water, wastewater, and biosolids treatment solutions across North America.

This executive leader will build and develop a high-performing process engineering organization, ensuring solutions are technically sound, commercially competitive, operationally practical, and aligned with customer and market needs. The role partners closely with business line leaders, commercial teams, operations, product management, R&D, and project execution.

The role requires the ability to travel domestically and internationally 20% of the time.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the process engineering strategy in support of NORAM growth objectives.
• Lead, develop, and expand a high-performing team of process engineering professionals.
• Establish engineering standards, methodologies, quality controls, and governance processes.
• Provide technical oversight for water, wastewater, and biosolids treatment system design.
• Improve engineering quality, speed, productivity, standardization, and scalability.
• Partner with commercial and business leaders on strategic customers, proposals, and complex opportunities.
• Align treatment solutions with market requirements, customer needs, and business objectives.
• Drive innovation in process design, modeling, automation, digital tools, and engineering workflows.
• Promote continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical capability development.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, regulatory, and risk-management requirements.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex technical and process-related issues.
• Contribute to regional and global strategic planning, portfolio decisions, and operational excellence initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Environmental, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of progressive process engineering experience in water, wastewater, and/or biosolids treatment.
• 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams or multidisciplinary technical organizations.
• Proven success building high-performing teams and delivering technically rigorous, commercially aligned solutions.
• Deep expertise across municipal and industrial water markets and treatment technologies.
• Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Demonstrated experience with organizational change, continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering standardization.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• PE license, advanced degree, or experience with digital engineering tools, global teams, or M&A integration preferred.

What You’ll Bring

• Strategic and people leadership
• Engineering governance and operational excellence
• Customer and market insight
• Innovation and change leadership
• Cross-functional influence
• Strong financial and business acumen
• Executive-level communication skills.

At Veolia, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

To ensure transparency and compliance with employment laws, we provide the following details regarding this position:

• Compensation: The compensation range is tied to the market for similarly bench-marked roles. The range is not an absolute, but a guide, and offers will be based on the individual candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, as well as internal peer equity. Depending upon all the preceding considerations for the final selected individual candidate, the offer may be lower or higher than the stated range: $177,000 - 200,000 USD.

We invest in our employees with a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Starting Day 1!
• 401(k) Plan - 3% default contribution plus matching!
• Flexible Spending & Health Saving Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• AD&D Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

****Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity****

Veolia does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting firms. All vendors must have a current and fully executed MSA on file before submitting candidates. Any unsolicited resumes and candidate profiles will be deemed the property of the company and no fee will be due.