Senior Director of Process Engineering to lead the design and development of water, wastewater, and biosolids treatment solutions across North America. This executive leader will build and develop a high-performing process engineering organization, ensuring solutions are technically sound, commercially competitive, operationally practical, and aligned with customer and market needs. The role partners closely with business line leaders, commercial teams, operations, product management, R&D;, and project execution.

The role requires the ability to travel domestically and internationally 20% of the time. Develop and execute the process engineering strategy in support of NORAM growth objectives. Lead, develop, and expand a high-performing team of process engineering professionals.

Establish engineering standards, methodologies, quality controls, and governance processes. Provide technical oversight for water, wastewater, and biosolids treatment system design. Improve engineering quality, speed, productivity, standardization, and scalability.

Partner with commercial and business leaders on strategic customers, proposals, and complex opportunities. Align treatment solutions with market requirements, customer needs, and business objectives. Drive innovation in process design, modeling, automation, digital tools, and engineering workflows.

Promote continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical capability development. Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, regulatory, and risk-management requirements. Serve as the senior escalation point for complex technical and process-related issues.

Contribute to regional and global strategic planning, portfolio decisions, and operational excellence initiatives.



Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Environmental, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field. 12+ years of progressive process engineering experience in water, wastewater, and/or biosolids treatment. 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams or multidisciplinary technical organizations. Proven success building high-performing teams and delivering technically rigorous, commercially aligned solutions.

Deep expertise across municipal and industrial water markets and treatment technologies. Demonstrated experience with organizational change, continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering standardization. PE license, advanced degree, or experience with digital engineering tools, global teams, or M&A; integration preferred.

Engineering governance and operational excellence Customer and market insight Innovation and change leadership Executive-level communication skills. At Veolia, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal chance workplace.

The range is not an absolute, but a guide, and offers will be based on the individual candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, as well as internal peer equity. 169,000 - 220,000 CAD Retirement program: Life Insurance Paid Holidays Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disclosure: We do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position. Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in Canada. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for Canadian work authorization (e.g. closed work permit) for this opportunity.

📌 Senior Director Process Engineering NORAM (Oakville)
🏢 Veolia | Water Tech North America
📍 Oakville