Project Manager

About the Position

Project Manager

Cary, NC, United States

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation.

Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Project Manager to support Veolia Water Technologies’ Technology & Product organization. In this role, the successful candidate will lead the execution of water and wastewater technology projects from engineering and procurement through construction, commissioning, and start-up. The ideal candidate brings a strong technical project management background, excellent customer and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced project environment.

This role is well suited to a self-motivated, organized, and commercially aware professional who can manage scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, and customer expectations. The successful candidate will collaborate with engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, Sales, Finance, Legal, suppliers, and customers to deliver safe, high-quality projects on time and within budget.

Key Characteristics

• Lead multidisciplinary teams through complex engineering, construction, and technology projects.
• Communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, subcontractors, internal teams, and leadership.
• Build strong working relationships and promote accountability across project teams.
• Manage multiple priorities, workstreams, schedules, and project deliverables.
• Apply sound judgment to resolve technical, commercial, schedule, and resource-related challenges.
• Balance customer needs with project scope, profitability, contractual obligations, and company objectives.
• Understand the design, construction, commissioning, and operational aspects of water treatment technologies.
• Promote collaboration, continuous improvement, and disciplined project execution.
• Make timely, responsible decisions that support project success and protect Veolia’s reputation.

Responsibilities

• Lead project execution from contract handoff through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up, and closeout.
• Define and manage project scope, schedule, budget, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Communicate project goals, responsibilities, priorities, and dependencies to the project team.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, project controls, construction, vendors, subcontractors, and start-up activities.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for the customer regarding process, scope, equipment, schedule, and project status.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers, engineers, suppliers, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders.
• Monitor project performance, including cost versus budget, schedule, percentage complete, risks, opportunities, and forecasted costs.
• Prepare monthly project reports and communicate status, issues, and required actions to management.
• Identify, document, evaluate, and manage scope changes and change orders.
• Support negotiations with suppliers and customers through Procurement and Sales.
• Review and interpret internal and external contracts, including scope, payment terms, schedule, changes, and risk.
• Prepare internal costing, tax, legal, insurance, and risk assessment documentation and obtain required approvals.
• Escalate issues that may affect project cost, schedule, scope, quality, customer satisfaction, or profitability.
• Support commissioning, start-up, customer handover, project closeout, and lessons-learned activities.
• Ensure project documentation, decisions, risks, and deliverables are organized and accessible.
• Share best practices and contribute to the continuous improvement of project execution processes.

Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a related technical or science discipline.
• Five or more years of hands-on experience in project engineering and project management.
• Experience managing engineering, construction, equipment, technology, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience coordinating internal teams, vendors, subcontractors, and customers.

Preferred:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience with water or wastewater treatment systems, environmental technologies, or industrial process equipment.
• Experience with commissioning, start-up, or operational handover activities.
• Experience with project controls, cost forecasting, risk management, and change-order administration.
• Familiarity with project management or enterprise systems such as Microsoft Project, SAP, or equivalent.

Skills

Core Skills:

• Project Management
• Technical Project Management
• Customer Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Cross-functional Team Leadership

Secondary Skills:

• Engineering
• Construction
• Procurement
• Commissioning
• Start-up
• Project Controls
• Risk Management
• Change Order Administration
• Project Scheduling Tools
• Microsoft Office

We Offer

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 opportunity workplace. Because our people are our greatest assets, we also offer competitive compensation and benefits that include:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Starting Day 1!
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan - 3% default contribution plus matching!
• Flexible Spending & Health Saving Accounts
• AD&D Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity

Veolia does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting firms. All vendors must have a current and fully executed MSA on file before submitting candidates. Any unsolicited resumes and candidate profiles will be deemed the property of Veolia, and no fee will be due.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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