Senior Director – Process Engineering NORAM

• Full-time
• Contract type:
  Standard

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 Technology 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.

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.

The Senior Director of Process Engineering provides strategic and operational leadership for the Water Tech 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Provide executive oversight of process design activities for Water Tech 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…