Company Description

About Us
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions is an industry leader in solving the world's most pressing water reuse, industrial, irrigation, municipal, and drinking water needs. Through desalination, advanced membrane, separation solutions, and water reuse and wastewater management and process technologies, we deliver added value to every customer. Veolia WTS provides value by improving performance and product quality, reducing operating costs, and extending equipment life through a broad range of products and services that are designed to optimise total performance. We safeguard the environment through water conservation and energy reduction. We are a great work environment, providing consistent professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.

Job Description

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (WTS) 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.

At WTS, 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 opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements. We are looking for an ES Projects Supplier Quality Lead to join our team, we are open to remote work within NAM or located near one of our key sites working hybrid as well.

Key Characteristics:
 Experience leading and directing a team of Supplier Quality Specialists, multiple
stakeholder, issues/ high specification projects, and priorities at once while driving swift
resolution of issues
 Ability to be self-lead and taking initiative is critical to success in this role
 Experience with scheduling, delivering and managing technical projects in the Oil and Gas,
Commercial construction, Mining , or other similar high-specification industries

Duties & Responsibilities 
 Lead and Delegate project assignments to the NAM ES Projects Supplier Quality team based on experience, current/future loading, and other aspects of the team. This role will be a working supervisor.
 Manage the quality of externally supplied materials in support of customer projects. This
includes the disposition of supplier non-conformances and issuance/management of
Supplier Corrective Action Reports (SCAR)

 Work with internal partners to manage Supplier Quality concerns for the ES Projects
business, this includes staffing assignments, escalations, and planning of team availability.
 Collaborate with internal engineering and external suppliers to determine feasibility of
designs for manufacturability at external vendors
 Perform root cause analysis, involving engineering and other key departments, for supplier non-conformance issues
 Audit current suppliers to evaluate risk by monitoring changes in management, key personnel, and process changes
 Support the development of new and existing suppliers by improving their quality management systems to improve overall part and documentation quality
 Determine quality resource requirements for projects out for bidding to provide accurate
accounting of labor needs for precise project accounting.
 Mitigate quality and project risks through the addition of inspections and other methods to ensure compliance to all project requirements.

Hard Skills 
 Proven leadership of a technical team and ability to manage competing priorities from internal and external partners.
 Proven experience in reading and deciphering engineering drawings and other related industrial specifications
 Practical experience with special processes (welding, casting, molding, etc…)
 Ability to work with suppliers to manage relationships, supplier performance, and product conformance
 Ability to drive technical discussions with internal and external teams and suppliers in each of the manufacturing/installation sites as defined per project
Soft Skills (Proc Competency Based Model). Please, don’t change it!
 Expert: Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field.
 Strategic: Gets the big game. Understands long term. Respects short term but doesn’t get hung up in the noise.      
 Inspirational: Ability to inspire/ motivate others.     
 Curious: Ability to pose high impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where others see problems.    
 Courageous: Champions ideas and helps transform them into actions.      
 Humble: Respectful towards peers, team members, leadership and stakeholders. 
 Holistic: Think customer and Company first.
 Accountable: Demonstrates responsibility ownership and commitment. Taking responsibility for making tough calls when necessary.
 Ambitious: Identifies underlying truths and comes up with ideas that change the way we
conceptualize issues, depicts vision of future that rallies teams to compete in new ways.

Qualifications

Education & Experience Required:

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or chemical engineering or other technical engineering degree and 5 years of supplier quality or inspection related work experience.3+ years experience leading a team of technical personnelWork experience with steel fabrication, pressure vessels, plastic injection molding, oil and gas or water treatment systems, and/or electromechanical assembly processesWork experience with QRQC, Lean Six Sigma, DOE, Deming Cycle, FMEA, 8D, APQP, Control Plan, PPAP, MSA, etc.

Preferred: 

Previous project management experience from ITO (Inquiry to Order) to OTR (Order to Remittance)Technical inspection experience or certification in welding, NDT, and other disciplines Project Management experienceWorking knowledge of NSF, AWS B31.1 and B31.3 welding codes and Canadian equivalentsBusiness and Technical English Language KnowledgeQualified ISO9001 auditor or equivalent
 

Additional Information

Working Conditions:

Up to 20% domestic and international travel as requiredVisits to supplier and customer sites that may be located outdoors or in other exposedenvironmentsOffice/Remote opportunities available

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.