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It 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. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.\n Position Purpose:\nIn the role of Project Leader, the successful candidate will lead the planning, execution, and completion of a project, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and timely delivery within budget constraints. Navigate project-specific challenges with resilience and adaptability, proactively addressing obstacles as they arise. Effectively communicate project goals, progress, and challenges to team members and stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned and informed. Foster a collaborative team environment by leveraging strong emotional intelligence and building positive relationships within the project team. Develop and implement creative, practical solutions to overcome project-related issues and drive successful outcomes. Ensure that project teams reflect and respect diversity, promoting an inclusive and supportive working environment. Drive project success by keeping a clear focus on achieving defined objectives and delivering high-quality outcomes.\nSafety: Lead and nurture a safety culture driven by individual behavior and accountability across the assigned project. Ensure proficiency in the applicability, care, and use of all site-specific, facility-required PPE. Maintain plant compliance with OSHA, State, and Veolia Safety and Environmental Programs.\nCompliance: Lead efforts to ensure compliant execution of the specific contract for the assigned project site, including adherence to established environmental, safety, operating, and emergency response procedures.\nReliability: Demonstrate skills and responsibilities related to ensuring dependable project execution, maintaining high-quality standards, and delivering consistent results. Apply ingenuity and initiative to coordinate problem resolution, manage conflicting priorities, and meet deadlines within a team environment. Serve rotational 24-hour emergency on-call as required by the site.\nPeople Focused: Exhibit strong leadership and mentoring skills to effectively manage resources (eg.personnel, equipment, materials, facilities, funds, and reputation). Demonstrate effective communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to motivate all levels of project personnel. Evaluate employee performance, match abilities with job requirements, and capitalize on talents to meet business objectives. Ensure effective communication and execution of business initiatives and progress toward goals by employees.\nCustomer Obsessed: Build and maintain strong customer relationships, understanding customer needs, requirements, and feedback to incorporate into project deliverables. Administer client contracts to ensure compliance, customer satisfaction, and prompt identification and notification of scope changes. Perform baseline client relations duties, including progress reports and special reports preparation and presentation. Participate in client meetings, special award programs, and professionally handle client service issue resolution. Assist with regulatory agency reports and public relations duties as necessary. Performance measured by Net Promoter Score and participation.\nCost Effective: Hold responsibility for budget preparation and implementation of cost control measures. Forecast budget, staffing, and equipment needs. Demonstrate proficiency in spreadsheet and database software, optimizing technology and systems used to communicate, manage budgets, streamline processes, and increase efficiency. Maintain full P&L and budgeting ownership for the assigned project.\nPrimary Duties/Responsibilities:\nAbility to inspire and guide a team towards project goals, providing clear vision and motivation.\nFocused on empowering team members by fostering an environment of collaboration, accountability, and support.\nSkilled in mentoring and developing individual team members to enhance their contributions and professional growth.\nExcellent communication skills to articulate project goals, expectations, and progress to both internal teams and external stakeholders.\nStrong interpersonal skills for building effective relationships across departments and ensuring alignment with operational objectives.\nDemonstrates leadership by example, setting high standards for work ethic, professionalism, and accountability.\nAbility to influence without direct authority, gaining buy-in and cooperation from cross-functional teams or stakeholders.\nAbility to engage with clients, providing regular updates, and ensuring their needs and expectations are addressed throughout the project.\nSkilled at managing stakeholder expectations and navigating sensitive situations diplomatically.\nPeople Management:Foster a positive and inclusive work culture that promotes employee engagement, development, and retention.\nProvide strategic leadership, coaching, and mentoring to regional personnel.\nImplement company employee recognition programs and address employee concerns promptly and effectively. Generally, supervise a staff of >10 FTEs.\n\nSafety:Champion a culture of safety excellence by implementing and enforcing comprehensive safety protocols, procedures, and best practices across the entire project.\nConduct regular safety training programs and promote individual accountability for safe work practices.\nMonitor and report on project safety performance metrics, including incident rates and near-misses.\nPromote a culture of safety accountability and individual responsibility.\n\nBusiness Development and Client Relations:Maintain outstanding relationships with current clients.\nFacilitate opportunities for scope expansions, contract extensions, and renewals.\nParticipate in council meetings for the project and neighboring cities/towns to build relationships with prospective clients.\nSolicit client feedback and respond to customer needs promptly.\nSeek customer and sales input to gain an intimate understanding of customer needs, problems, and systems.\nImprove satisfaction levels by identifying needs and implementing corrective actions.\nEvaluate and develop new business opportunities.\n\nContract Management:Interpret contracts to define deliverables and fulfill schedules.\nConduct routine client meetings, assign tasks, set deadlines, and track progress.\nEnsure customer requirements and deadlines are met.\nAutomate processes where possible and capture historical data for future quotes.\nParticipate in project start-up teams.\n\nProcurement:Manage contract MBE/WBE/VBE procurement requirements.\nEnsure compliance with legal requirements and company policies.\nIdentify and justify capital expenditures partnering directly with the client.\n\nFinancial Management:Monitor project's financial performance.\nCompliance with cost center budget.\nPersonnel utilization.\nPricing.\nCustomer invoicing and collections.\nPrepare monthly reports in a timely manner.\nDevelop and present annual budgets for project review.\nEnsure project meets or exceeds financial plans.\nForecast monthly budget variances.\nEnsure timely collection of receivables.\n\nOperational Oversight:Manage facilities generally >10 mgd, including several worksites or a single large water/wastewater plant.\nGenerally responsible for revenue less than $10M.\nSupervise a staff of >10 FTEs.\n\nWork Environment:\nSpends 60% of time in the operations environment and 40% of time in the office environment at a project site.\nAttends client meetings (e.g., city council, utility board or internal management).\nNeed to work outside in inclement weather conditions and drive a company vehicle to perform duties.\nOccasional travel for training or meetings.\n Education/Experience/Background:\nA degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field is strongly preferred but not required.\n6 years of leadership experience, 4 of which leading project teams, with a strong emphasis on effective team collaboration and project delivery.\nKnowledge/Skills/Abilities:\nLeadership and Personal Qualities:Outgoing, self-directed, goal-oriented, and creative in identifying opportunities.\nStrong organizational and project management skills with attention to detail.\nHigh degree of initiative, judgment, and resourcefulness.\nAbility to find creative solutions to complex problems and manage changing priorities.\nDemonstrated leadership ability with understanding of HR principles.\n\nFinancial Management:P&L ownership, budgeting, and cost control for project sites.\nProven track record of delivering excellent customer satisfaction.\n\nRelationship Management:Build and maintain strong partnerships with customers.\nExcellent communication skills (written, verbal, listening, and presentation).\nAbility to handle sensitive communications internally and with all levels of project stakeholders.\n\nCompliance and Safety:Commitment to compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.\nAbility to understand and manage safety, environmental, and health requirements.\n\nTechnical Skills:Facilities and capital equipment management.\nProblem-solving and solution development.\nTeam building and motivation across all personnel levels.\nTechnical writing and total quality management.\nStrong PC skills, including proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet, and database software.\nAbility to optimize technology and systems to streamline processes and increase efficiency.\n\nRequired Certification/Licenses/Training:\nMust be able to obtain the certifications as required.\n Benefits: Veolia’s comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental, vision, life insurance, savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteering and more. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement.\nWe 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.\nDisclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. 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