# Water Program Director

PQ is a leading global provider of silicates, silicas and derivative products. PQ's products are used in a wide variety of industrial processes and many customer products, from decorative paints to green cement, from clean drinking water to green tires and from toothpaste to biofuels and beer. Ideal candidates resonate with PQ's Core Values of Integrity, Sustainability, People, Customer Focus and Safety. Successful employees embrace and model these values in their behaviors and actions. We are seeking an early-career-to-mid-career water treatment professional with 5 - 10 years of chemical industry experience to own PQ’s water program across all manufacturing facilities. This role sets water treatment strategy, selects and manages treatment programs and suppliers, and controls both operating and capital spend for water treatment company-wide. The successful candidate will combine hands-on technical service or sales experience from a major water treatment provider with the commercial judgment to deliver measurable preventative, restorative, and opportunistic value at each site. Location: This role can be based near a major PQ plant or office, such as Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; o

- **Id**: 4304035
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pq-corp-water-program-director>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chester, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T21:02:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:00:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4111
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Minerals, Chemical Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 693696
- **Name**: PQ Corp.
- **Domain**: pqcorp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pqcorp>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T05:40:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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