Senior Director Process Engineering NORAM

Veolia | Water Tech North America; Oakville; On-site; CAD 169,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RRSP matching

Life Insurance

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Veolia seeks a Senior Director of Process Engineering to lead design of water, wastewater, and biosolids solutions across North America. You will build a high-performing process engineering organization ensuring technically sound, commercially competitive, and operable solutions.

The role collaborates with business lines, commercial teams, operations, product management, R&D and project execution, with travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Environmental, Civil Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years in process engineering for water, wastewater, and biosolids.
• 7+ years leading engineering teams or multidisciplinary groups.
• PE license, advanced degree, or digital engineering tools experience preferred.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the process engineering strategy for NORAM growth.
• 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 design.
• 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.

Skills

Water treatment

Wastewater treatment

Team leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional

Regulatory compliance

Digital tools

M&A experience

Strategic thinking

Strategic leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical/Environmental/Civil Engineering

Tools

Digital engineering tools

Job description

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: $169,000 - 220,000 CAD

Our competitive benefits package that includes:

• Retirement program: RRSP - Veolia matches your contribution at 50% up to a maximum of 3% of your pay and DCPP (after 1 year) - Contribute 4%, and Veolia will match your contribution at 50% up to a maximum of 2% of your pay.
• Life Insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disclosure: We do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in Canada. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for Canadian work authorization (e.g. closed work permit) for this opportunity.

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