Senior Vice President - Operations

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Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) is a portfolio company owned by investment funds managed by EQT. Headquartered in Tampa, with operations across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers annually over 20 billion gallons of water to industrial, commercial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers. SSWG designs, builds, owns, and operates, delivers new facilities, or acquires and upgrades existing facilities, with the goal of optimizing project risk transfer between the public and private sectors.

We have more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants in operations throughout the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. With an outstanding reputation for decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions, the SSWG “Water-as-a-Service®” approach seeks to help solve global water and wastewater infrastructure challenges. Seven Seas Water Group is a portfolio company of EQT AB (together with its subsidiaries, “EQT”), a purpose-driven global investment organization that partners with companies worldwide through its Private Capital and Real Assets strategies.

Founded in 1994, EQT is a leading active ownership firm that has more than EUR 273 billion in total assets under management across nearly 50 active funds.

Seven Seas Water, which provides water treatment and desalination for governmental, hospitality and industrial customers in United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the AUC Group (), which provides decentralized water and wastewater treatment plants for industrial and municipal customers in the United States.

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of more than three decades of developing companies across multiple geographies, sectors, and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT has EUR 273 billion in total assets under management (EUR 141 billion in fee-generating assets under management) as of 30 June 2025, within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.

EQT has offices in more than 25 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and has more than 1,900 employees.

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The SVP – Operations is responsible for the oversight, management, and coordination of all the desal and brackish water assets, plant operations, and all department personnel for Seven Seas Water Operations based in Tampa with locations throughout the Caribbean and Panama and Peru.

• Champion the adoption of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) best practices and foster a high-performance, positive EHS culture across all operations.
• Assume ownership of the operations strategy, including developing, updating, and maintaining a comprehensive operations plan that supports all customer contracts and company business objectives.
• Provide executive oversight of site operations to ensure contractual compliance while driving improvements in revenue, profitability, asset uptime, and required product water quality.
• Lead the development and ongoing use of AI-enabled operational performance dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) to communicate results and ensure world-class operational performance.
• Serve as a senior interface with customers to ensure high levels of client satisfaction and to position Seven Seas Water as a premium service provider differentiated from competitors.
• Oversee the performance, deployment, and compliance of all operations employees and contractors, ensuring adherence to labor laws, contract requirements, and the efficient use of resources.
• Build and sustain a positive, inclusive, and performance-oriented culture that establishes Seven Seas Water as an employer of choice.
• Develop, manage, and control operational budgets, including operating expenditures and capital investment (Cap Ex), with accountability for financial performance.
• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies to enhance…