Site Manager
📍 Podari, Craiova

At Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, we help customers across the globe improve operational performance while driving sustainability through innovative water, process, and resource management solutions. We partner with leading organizations in a wide range of industries, delivering technical expertise, advanced technologies, and operational excellence that help customers achieve their business goals safely and efficiently.

We are currently looking for a Site Manager to lead our operations at our customer site, in Podari, Craiova. This is a strategic leadership role responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of our services, maintaining strong customer relationships, and driving operational performance, safety, and continuous improvement.

In this role, you will act as the primary point of contact for the customer, providing leadership and direction to the on-site team while ensuring the highest standards of service, compliance, and customer satisfaction. If you are a results-oriented leader with strong operational management experience and a passion for building high-performing teams, we would love to hear from you.

What you will do:

• Act as the primary operational leader at the customer site, ensuring service excellence, contractual compliance, and long-term customer satisfaction.
• Champion a strong safety culture by promoting compliance with company, customer, regulatory, environmental, and quality standards.
• Develop and execute operational plans that drive safety, performance, efficiency, profitability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee daily operations and maintenance activities, ensuring effective resource allocation, vendor coordination, and uninterrupted service delivery.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customer stakeholders, commercial teams, and internal functions to support business objectives and operational success.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team through performance management, training, talent development, and succession planning.
• Ensure site personnel have the tools, knowledge, and support required to perform safely and effectively.
• Manage site assets, inventory, and equipment to maximize reliability, minimize downtime, and support operational requirements.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance operational efficiency, strengthen customer value, and support business growth.

What you will need:

• Preferred location: Craiova, Slatina, Pitesti or nearby/ willingness to commute every day to Craiova
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Technology or related fields
• Minimum 5 years of operational experience in water and wastewater treatment, including at least 3 years in a people leadership role.
• Experience managing site operations within an industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of industrial equipment and computer-based control systems.
• Proficiency in English
• Valid Category B driving licence.
• Experience in an industrial plant setting is considered an advantage

What’s in it for You

• The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
• The ability to make an impact by doing technically challenging work.
• Comradery with a team of highly talented associates.
• Culture that values safety first.
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth.
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best.

Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging
Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance in all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin,citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.