Program Director Mobile Solutions (32553)

Join UCC Environmental, a leader in sustainable technology solutions:Looking for a career where your work has real impact? At UCC Environmental, you’ll join a company built on solving complex industrial challenges while advancing sustainable solutions for air, water, and solids handling around the world.

We’re a privately held, family-owned business with more than a century of experience supporting mission-critical industries. Our teams work with utility power providers and heavy industrial customers globally, delivering innovative solutions in environmental compliance, material handling, and high-performance aftermarket technologies. 

At UCC Environmental, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and long-term customer relationships. With continued growth across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, we offer opportunities to contribute meaningfully to an expanding international business.

Headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, UCC owns and operates sales, manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing facilities across the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your work has purpose, and your career can grow alongside a global organization, UCC Environmental could be the right fit!

The Program Director, Mobile Solutions, will serve as UCC’s lead for the business sales and operations aspects of its established and growing Mobile Solutions business, driving the next phase of scale across fleet utilization, go-to-market strategy, and new technology offerings.

This person will be the focal point for scaling UCC’s established Mobile Solutions business across all aspects: Sales Development, Marketing, Execution, Rental Process Management, and Business Strategy.  While having an entrepreneurial mindset, intimately leads direct reports and is the point person for supporting functions including Sales, Project Management, Finance and Field Engineering teams to understand market equipment needs for air, water, and solids strategic offering pillars of the business.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own and scale the rental solutions business plan for revenue and market share growth, including annual bookings, gross margin, and lead generation targets.  Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to position the offering and forecast revenue.  Collaborate with Project Management / Contract Engineering, Manager Rental Operations, and Supply Chain to continually refine a cost-competitive Mobile Fleet Execution Model.
• Drive go-to-market execution and new business development: support Sales Managers in securing strategic pilot opportunities (e.g., HVBF and ZLD), represent UCC at industry trade shows (WOCA, WEFTEC) and related events, and develop new channel and technology partnerships with solutions-based companies and equipment partners.  Partner with Marketing to execute mobile solutions awareness and thought-leadership programs, including targeted advertising, website content, and lead follow-up.  Communicating strategy to the organization and ensure Outside Sales Representatives, Sales Managers, and Sales Engineers are aligned on the mobile solutions strategic offering.
• Report to upper management status, successes, challenges, and metrics in a concise and consistent format, including monthly reporting and executive updates.
• Own operational excellence for the fleet: maintain IOMs, mobilization/demobilization checklists, maintenance handbooks, and usage guides for IoT-enabled equipment; ensure all major assets are tracked; and facilitate best-practices workshops and operational feedback sessions with internal partners to drive continuous improvement.
• Drive and report on KPIs including time and financial utilization targets across clarifiers, chemical skids, and new technology platforms (DAF/ZLD), on-time asset readiness, and budget adherence.
• Collaborate effectively by facilitating communication and relationships between Sales, Field Engineering other UCC teams to understand forecasted equipment needs.  Schedule and commit equipment for deployment.  Engage in site walk-downs and equipment mobilizations and demobilizations to understand use and ensure customer deliverables are met.
• Manage (with support of Manager Rental Operations) UCC’s rental fleet to ensure optimal technical and safe operations, coordinating procurement, receiving, and reconditioning of equipment in preparation for future deployment, and working with the plant production team to process inbound equipment and ensure timely preparation, stocking, and shipment in alignment with customer commitments.  Procure, maintain, upgrade and refresh equipment as needed.  Develop equipment retirement strategies and lead CapEx procurement procedures on Rental Equipment, working with Finance to ensure capital request and asset depreciation processes are aligned.  Monitor equipment fleet to ensure solid operating condition.
• Continually improve Rental business ERP processes, inbound/outbound equipment processes, and rental interface processes to other supporting stakeholders (internal and external) to ensure solid financial performance of the Rental Business.  Develop and Track metrics critical to Mobile Solutions business success. 
• Own the Mobile Solutions strategic planning cycle: build, execute, and quarterly review a 3+ year OGSM; develop business case investment requests for new technology platforms (e.g., media filtration, ultrapure water filtration); maintain a market and competitor dashboard to identify target growth areas; partner with the M&A team on the mobile solutions aspects of acquisition targets, including business plan development and due diligence support; support organizational design and build-out; and lead periodic ideation sessions to identify new product growth areas.
• Build and develop the Mobile Solutions team through ongoing coaching, goal-setting, and team-building.
• All other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain or equivalent experience
• 7 + years’ experience as a Manager/Director in Industrial Mobile Solutions / Equipment Rental Services Business (Water/Wastewater Industry Preferred), with a track record of scaling an established rental or service offering
• Experience managing channel/technology partnerships and representing a business at industry trade shows
• Experience in Continuous Improvement/Lean or Process Development

Characteristics and Skills:

• Strong entrepreneurial mindset to optimize and grow an already successful mobile offering.
• Broad experience working in all things rental, from marketing/sales to back-end operations.
• Comfortable using KPIs to drive fleet utilization and financial performance.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high pressure, deadline driven environment.
• Highly creative when solving complex problems.
• Excellent coaching skillset; team building and facilitation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Financial acumen and familiar with basic accounting/ finance processes.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate. 
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to balance team activities and individual work.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Thorough knowledge of MS Office applications and ability to perform complex analytics in Excel.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Prior experience with Microsoft Dynamics, Prism and other analytics software preferred.

Essential Physical Abilities:

• Ability to sit or stand at a computer, or in a manufacturing environment, for 80% of the day
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
• Ability to perform sustained physical effort handling, moving loading and unloading components in/on/off pallets containers, crates etc.
• Ability to work in awkward and strained work positions that require physical agility.
• Requires the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Core Values and Beliefs

Must be aligned with Core Values and Beliefs that drive UCC’s existing corporate culture;

• People – we trust and invest in our people, unlocking their full potential and they always come first
• Teamwork – we respect others and create a collaborative working environment of inclusion and inspiration
• Integrity – we are truthful and respectful to customers, employees, community and suppliers
• Customer Satisfaction – we keep existing customers by delivering exceptional customer service
• Innovative –we encourage resourceful problem solving in the face of adversity

Compensation and Benefits

Base Pay Range: $160,000 to $200,000 annual pay based on skills and experience

Other Compensation: Incentive pay of 0-15% based on achieving sales targets as outlined in the plan.

Benefits:         

• Insurance: Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, Employee Assistance Programs and Voluntary Options such as Vision, HSA, FSA (Medical, Dental, Vision and Dependent Care), Accident, Identity Theft, Legal coverage
• Retirement: 401(k) with up to 4% company match, Pre-Tax and Roth Options, and discretionary Annual Profit-Sharing contribution
• Time Off: 10 days of Vacation, Vacation Purchase Plan up to 10 days purchased per year, 5 days of Sick and 10 Holidays, Parental Leave, FMLA
• Miscellaneous: Student Debt Assistance, Tuition Reimbursement, Certification and License Reimbursement, Personalized Professional Development Plans and Career Path Options.

How to Apply:

If interested in this position, please apply online via our website at https://uccenvironmental.com/careers/  and select Explore Current Openings to apply for this position online.

UCC Environmental is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Disability/Veteran. If you have difficulty applying for this job online, by e-mail, or need accommodations, please call us at 847-473-5900 and ask for Human Resources.