Project Director

Are you a brilliant mind with passion for making a difference on transformational Projects with strong environmental protection impact?
How about taking your corporate career to the next level with Ecolab, a global leader in planet health and a company recognized as an official Great Place to Work
At the heart of our mission is l to help our industrial customers improve their water sustainability. With more than $15 billion in sales, an aggressive growth agenda and 48,000 global associates, this is a chance to impact the world's biggest water challenges. Come join a company making a difference in more than 170 countries around the world.
- Are you looking for a position combining both your technical, and interpersonal capabilities in an international and dynamic environment?
Don't wait any longer and join us to embrace a purposeful job that really suits You We are looking for a Project Director for our Total Water Management (TWM) program supporting customers across Europe Our impactful program designed to turn water commitments into local actions across our customers' enterprise and advance sustainable business growth.

**What's in it for You**
- Technically challenging work. Comradery with a team of highly talented professionals.
- Culture that values safety first, yours and of your team as well as the surrounding communities. Feel proud each day to work for a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life
- The opportunity to take a strategic leadership role on an absolute top priority for our engineering department and help adapting the way we work.
- The chance to make a direct impact our customers to overcome the most important challenges of this century: minimize water and climate impacts while maximizing outcomes at an optimized total cost.
- The chance to join a dynamic, ambitious Management team tasked with delivering business growth, innovation, and value to our customers
- The potential to improve the diversity of our leadership team and make a meaningful impact on our business

**Position Description**
- Is responsible in delivering capital projects by providing engineering and project management expertise on €50M + projects.
- Is responsible for delivery of the project’s within approved CAPEX budget, committed planning and state of the art quality standard.
- Will report to the Director TWM Europe and will be an integral member of the TWM EU Leadership Team. He/She will closely collaborate with the other LT members, the wider Ecolab team and the customer to deliver individual projects and support sites according to the yearly project’s portfolio assigned. The Project Director will be expected to maintain a close, dotted-line relationship with the business VP and Divisional Director.
- The project portfolio is focussed on greenfield and brownfield projects in Western Europe to start, and the project scope will vary according to the business priorities and served industries. The Project Director will be involved in setting the yearly roadmap considering ongoing Projects under completion and those to start.
- Manage on a project-by-project basis a specific task force composed by highly skilled professional.
- Manage communication and interfaces with the customer and be the first point of contact of his customer’s peer
- Will be accountable to define his expression of needs (resources, roadmap, planning ) on a Projects-by-Projects basis
- Will be accountable to present to Engineering and Business LT team the status of the projects and raise relevant points for review and decision
- Coordinate actions with ECL’s support functions (Supply Chain, purchasing ) to ensure smooth execution of the project and alignment
- Define projects execution strategy
- Manage relationships with ECL’s partners & vendors
- Ensure smooth execution and be accountable for quality, cost, timing of the projects
- Support key Contracts negotiation
- Ensure implementation of best Project Management practices
- Leverage synergies and learnings between projects, drive continuous improvement project over project

**Minimum Qualifications**
- Master´s degree with relevant experience
- Minimum 15+ years demonstrated experience of leading cross-functional, multi-project programs. Experience in an industrial environment, ideally in water treatment related sector
- Experience in managing Greenfield Projects and at least brownfield Projects on Water Cycle scope of minimum $50M CAPEX value
- PMP Project Management certification, or equivalent, is preferred
- Fluency in French and English
- Effective Networker
- Ability to manage executive level difficult discussion
- Eagerness to grow through challenging experience
- Based in France and willingness to travel and change temporarily location for future assignments

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