VES Leader, North America

Imagine yourself…

• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.

• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.

• Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.
• Leading meaningful improvements that simplify work, strengthen performance, and help teams deliver lasting results.

At Trojan Technologies, you have the power to make it possible.

Trojan Technologies, a Veralto company, plays a vital role in making the various stages of the water treatment process more effective and efficient. Our products and services have applications across municipal wastewater, drinking water, environmental contaminant treatment, and residential water treatment, along with ultra-purification of water used in food and beverage manufacturing, pharmaceutical processing and semiconductor applications.

When you join the Trojan Technologies team and the broader Veralto network, you become part of a unique culture where purpose meets possibility: where the work we do makes an everyday impact on the world’s vital water resources, and where you’ll have the power to deepen your skillset, own your ambition, and fuel your career growth.

Take a moment to watch our video: The Power to Make Things Possible (https://vimeo.com/burnsmarketing/review/823050239/c5d19b300c)

We offer:

• Career Growth: Access to mentorship, development opportunities, and career coaching.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Health coverage, retirement plans, and 15 days’ vacation.
• Purposeful Work: Be part of a mission to safeguard the world’s most vital resources.

Reporting to the Director, VES – North America, the Veralto Enterprise System Leader - North America will help strengthen a culture of performance, problem solving, and measurable improvement across the organization. This role focuses on building sustainable operating practices, improving business processes, and enabling teams to deliver stronger results through VES-aligned continuous improvement and operational excellence methods.

In this role, you will partner with functional leaders across the organization to accelerate growth, improve operational performance, and strengthen day-to-day execution in North America. This position will provide coaching and training to leaders and associates to identify opportunities, simplify processes, solve problems at the root cause, and sustain stronger results through VES tools and practices, consistent management routines, standard work, visual controls, and structured process improvement. The VES Leader serves as a key thought partner and hands-on change agent, supporting deployment and sustainment of operational excellence best practices across functions, value streams, and frontline teams.

This position is part of the VES team located in London, Ontario and will be hybrid with the expectation of a minimum of 3-days per week in office.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

Process Leadership and Operational Excellence Implementation

• Lead and support daily implementation of continuous improvement and operational excellence practices;
  • Apply and facilitate practical improvement methods, including structured problem solving, visual and daily management, standard work, and transactional process improvement, with coaching support from senior operational excellence leaders
  • Support the daily implementation of improvement practices within assigned functions, value streams, and frontline teams
  • Provide coaching and guidance for daily management, standard work, process discipline, and transactional process improvement.
  • Audit existing processes and systems to determine actions required for improvements.
  • Build capability in continuous improvement tools through onboarding, hands-on application, certification progress where applicable, and feedback from experienced practitioners.

Lead Continuous Improvement and Kaizen Events

• Support the planning, facilitation, implementation, and sustainment of kaizen events and other improvement activities:
  • Guide pre-work, event execution, and sustainment activities while providing training on key improvement tools such as kaizen, structured problem solving, daily management, visual management, and standard work
  • Conduct regular reviews of improvement charters, pre-work, action plans, and sustainment metrics to ensure events are well prepared, effectively executed, and translated into lasting performance gains.

Partnership, Coaching, and Talent

• Partner with functional leaders, process owners, frontline teams, and operational excellence stakeholders to execute assigned improvement priorities.
• Coach associates and team leaders in foundational continuous improvement concepts, daily management routines, visual controls, standard work, root-cause problem solving, and behaviors that support a culture of operational excellence.
• Collaborate across functions and domains to support business outcomes, remove barriers, and build credibility as a practical continuous improvement and operational excellence practitioner.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Relevant experience and demonstrated impact deploying continuous improvement, lean, operational excellence, or business process improvement practices, with a focus on structured problem solving, visual and daily management, standard work, and transactional process improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate teams, learn new methods quickly, and sustain improvement actions with process owners.
• Proficiency in English (required)
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time

Trojan Technologies is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

Trojan Technologies is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto, a global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

The compensation range for this role is $90,000-$105,000 CAD per year. This job is also eligible for bonus pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, and medical/dental/vision insurance to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

This position is for a new role within our team.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

Unsolicited Assistance

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.