Project Leader

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country's largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. 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. Job Description Position Purpose: In 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. Safety: 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. Compliance: 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. Reliability: 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. People 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. Customer 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. Cost 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. Primary Duties/Responsibilities: Ability to inspire and guide a team towards project goals, providing clear vision and motivation. Focused on empowering team members by fostering an environment of collaboration, accountability, and support. Skilled in mentoring and developing individual team members to enhance their contributions and professional growth. Excellent communication skills to articulate project goals, expectations, and progress to both internal teams and external stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills for building effective relationships across departments and ensuring alignment with operational objectives. Demonstrates leadership by example, setting high standards for work ethic, professionalism, and accountability. Ability to influence without direct authority, gaining buy-in and cooperation from cross‑functional teams or stakeholders Ability to engage with clients, providing regular updates, and ensuring their needs and expectations are addressed throughout the project. Skilled at managing stakeholder expectations and navigating sensitive situations diplomatically. People Management: Foster a positive and inclusive work culture that promotes employee engagement, development, and retention. Provide strategic leadership, coaching, #J-18808-Ljbffr