Technical Director

About Veolia North America

A subsidiary of Veolia group, Veolia North America (VNA) 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. Please visit our website

Job Description

BENEFITS 

Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement.  Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.   

Position Purpose:  
As a member of our team, you will be working on a wide range of operational and technical issues across hazardous waste management, and industrial water utility operations. You will report to the T&P Senior Technical Director (industrial support) Senior Managers are assigned to more than one project at any point in time and also work in close collaboration with our corporate functions as well as operational teams on site.

Primary Duties/responsibilities: 

• Produce basic conceptual design of new treatment lines for hazardous wastes
  •  liquid hazardous waste (oil water separation, evapoconcentration, physico-chemical separative technologies, neutralisation & redox reactions, membrane bioreactors & MBBR, NF/RO membranes, mineral and organic sludge dewatering)
  • incineration
  • recycling opportunities
  • landfill and associated activities
• Do troubleshooting of existing HW processes and build debottlenecking/revamping/growth plans with operational teams
• Train operational teams to raise their technical background
• Develop new process optimizations or pilot new technologies, coordinating some tests with corporate functions (BS&P)
• Test and implement new tools under development (Hermod)
• Train operational teams to raise their technical background
• Work in cooperation with Performance team members.

Qualifications

Education / Experience / Background: 

• Undergraduate degree Engineering / Environment
• Master’s preferred
• Exceptional problem-solving ability with logical reasoning, creative thinking and experience-based judgment to complex challenges.
• Combined experience of process design and operations (incineration and liquid treatments)
• Incineration background will be a plus
• Know-how in engineering, design
• Knowledge in safety in design and process safety in general

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: 

• Open-minded and able to take a non-conventional approach to problem solving where precedent may not exist.
• Eager to learn from others and ability to transfer knowledge to team members and operational teams
• Intellectual curiosity and drive to succeed.
• Ability to develop credibility with people at all organizational levels, build strong relationships.
• Must be comfortable working in a fast paced and collaborative team setting closely with others but also autonomously with little direction.
• Able to communicate complex ideas clearly both in written and verbal formats.
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground and create opportunities for others.
• Passionate about coaching and mentoring individuals and teams.
• Must possess strong time management skills and have a demonstrated ability to work in both team and independent settings.
• Strong PC skills are essential with high proficiency in MS Office Suite/Google Suite.
• Ability to travel in North America and overseas for specific missions/projects
• Fluent in English, any other language among French, Spanish,... is welcome
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural international context
• Ability to convince and train plant managers and operational teams
• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time with good reactivity and prioritizing

Additional Information

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information are accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status

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Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.