Project Manager, Process Engineer, Operations Management

Company Description Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Tech Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy.

Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

Job Summary
As a Chemical Plant Project Manager, you will lead high-impact capital and improvement projects, encompassing everything from batch reaction and chemical blending to raw-material handling and plant infrastructure. You are responsible for the safe, end-to-end delivery of projects—from initial concept and front-end loading through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and final closeout.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams including Operations, Process Engineering, EHS, Maintenance, Quality, and Supply Chain, you will define scope, cost, schedule, and safety standards. You will also champion a safety-first culture by ensuring process hazards are identified early, robust safeguards are integrated into designs, and comprehensive safety reviews are completed, ensuring facilities are fully prepared for secure, successful startup operations.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Project Development and Execution Manage assigned capital projects from business need and feasibility through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, performance verification, turnover, and closeout

Develop project charters, scopes of work, execution strategies, estimates, schedules, cash-flow forecasts, staffing plans, contracting plans, and stage-gate deliverables appropriate to project size and risk Establish the project basis, objectives, success criteria, battery limits, assumptions, exclusions, and interfaces with existing operations

Coordinate process, mechanical, piping, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation and controls, automation, environmental, and facility design activities

Lead design reviews and ensure deliverables such as process descriptions, design bases, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, layouts, and tie-in plans are complete and fit for purpose

Manage engineering firms, construction contractors, OEMs, and suppliers; support bid development, technical and commercial evaluations, contract awards, expediting, fabrication reviews, and vendor document control

Plan brownfield work, shutdowns, tie-ins, temporary systems, isolations, and construction sequencing with Operations and Maintenance to minimize production disruption and control risk Monitor scope, cost, commitments, forecast, schedule, progress, quality, and contractor performance; identify variances and implement recovery plans

Administer project change control, maintain decision and action logs, evaluate risks and opportunities, and promptly escalate matters that could materially affect safety, scope, cost, schedule, quality, or operability

Process Safety and Regulatory Integration Integrate process safety requirements into the project plan, schedule, budget, design criteria, procurement packages, construction activities, and startup strategy

Confirm the project is evaluated under the site Management of Change (MOC) process and that affected Process Safety Information (PSI), procedures, training, drawings, equipment files, and asset records are…