Sulzer is a leading engineering company with a proud heritage of innovation. Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.
About The Role
Join Sulzer's Water Treatment Solutions team as our Head of Solutions Design, leading the development, standardization, and optimization of technical solutions for municipal and industrial water and wastewater applications.
This strategic leadership role is responsible for building competitive, scalable, and high-performing treatment solutions across key process technologies. You will lead solution development, pilot testing, process validation, and application standardization while managing multidisciplinary teams across process engineering, design, and laboratory functions. The role plays a key part in supporting business growth by transforming technical innovation into practical, market-ready solutions.
Your Main Tasks And Responsibilities
• Lead the development and standardization of treatment solutions for municipal and industrial water and wastewater applications.
• Define application guidelines, process design criteria, and standard technology configurations.
• Ensure solutions are cost-effective, competitive, and aligned with market and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Application Management, and R&D; teams to integrate new technologies into standardized offerings.
• Develop and maintain a general reference database of validated applications, case studies, and performance benchmarks.
• Plan, organize, and oversee pilot testing programs, both internally and at customer sites.
• Define pilot objectives, testing methodologies, performance KPIs, and validation criteria.
• Analyze pilot and full-scale operational data and convert findings into robust design standards and solution improvements.
• Lead and develop process designers, laboratory technicians, and other technical specialists to ensure engineering ex
📌 Head of Solutions Design (Madrid)
🏢 Sulzer
📍 Madrid