Technical Director - Process Engineering

Company Description

A subsidiary of Veolia group, Veolia North America (VNA) is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country's largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery.

VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent.

Veolia is the world’s leading environmental services company with ~220,000 employees globally and a 170-year history. We help our customers address their environmental and sustainability challenges in energy, water and waste. That means improving our clients’ energy efficiency, better managing their water and wastewater, and recovering resources from their waste. We do this in a safe, cost-effective and innovative manner for cities, governments, campuses, businesses, and industries.

At Veolia North America, we focus on growth, and we believe that everyone has a role to play in growing the Company.

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Director reporting to the Sr. Technical Director Engineering. The candidate collaborates and coordinates work with the other members of the Milwaukee project, but also the Technical & Performance Department, supporting the business needs of Veolia’s Municipal Water Contract Operations Business Unit in the U.S. The person in this position will be required to provide leadership for the development, production, and delivery of technical and performance projects.

The person will be in direct contact with the client.

• Develop objectives for assigned areas and ensure alignment with overall company strategies and objectives. Helps define and monitor Engineering policies and procedures for the area and synchronize with project management and operations functions.
• Participate in key engineering design reviews. Enforce conformance with defined requirements and ensure that corrective actions are completed as required.
• Assess and evaluate mechanical & electrical systems and control systems for efficiency, including pumps, blowers, UV, chemical feed systems, etc.
• Optimize systems for applicable unit process areas.
• Develop, implement and maintain engineering and technical standards, specifications and documentation for the area. Stay abreast of industry related standards and invoke these standards into the engineering process.
• Ensure that all engineering deliverables for assigned projects are identified and prioritized in a project execution plan. Measure engineering’s on-time delivery performance for critical deliverables. Define, implement and monitor measurements for continuous improvement of engineering performance and product cost reductions.
• Offer consultancy, action planning and optimization implementation strategies as the regional subject matter expert in wastewater unit process control.
• Develop and design treatment strategies and protocols with follow-up to assist in plant implementation.
• Support Sales and Marketing with technical strategy and experience to maintain current accounts and capture new business.

• Typically spends 50% of time in an operations environment, in Milwaukee, and 50% of time in an office environment. Travels 50% of the time to assigned area.
• Requires working in outside and inside environments with noise and all temperatures and climatic conditions and must be able to work under adverse weather conditions for extended periods of time.
• Possible Work Hazards: may be exposed to possible operations hazards including dust, fumes, toxic and caustic chemicals, rotating machinery, high pressure, hot or cold work temperatures, slippery surfaces, water and electrical hazards.

• Bachelor's…