Director, Engineering PMO

Clemens Food Group LLC•Hatfield Township, PA

About The Position

This is an opportunity to build the future of engineering project management for a growing manufacturing organization investing heavily in facilities, infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. As Director of PMO Engineering, you will help shape how capital investments are identified, prioritized, governed, and executed across multiple manufacturing facilities. You will build processes, develop talent, influence strategy, and create systems that will support the business for years to come. If you enjoy solving complex challenges, developing people, and creating structure within a fast-moving environment, this role offers a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact. You will lead a growing PMO Engineering organization responsible for overseeing a significant capital investment portfolio across multiple manufacturing facilities. Your leadership will help prioritize, govern, and execute projects that support growth, operational excellence, infrastructure modernization, automation, and long-term business performance. Your leadership will help transform engineering from a reactive organization into a strategic business partner that proactively plans, prioritizes, and executes investments that improve safety, reliability, productivity, and growth.

Requirements

Director-level engineering leadership experience.
Experience leading large capital portfolios within manufacturing environments.
Multi-site project management and capital planning expertise.
Strong financial and business acumen.
Ability to influence leaders across operations, engineering, finance, and executive teams.
Experience building high-performing technical teams.
Strong project governance and PMO leadership capabilities.
Strategic thinking balanced with operational execution.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to simplify complex technical topics for non-technical audiences.
Strong coaching and mentoring abilities.
High accountability and ownership mentality.
Continuous improvement mindset.
Comfort managing competing priorities across multiple locations.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
Led engineering, PMO, manufacturing excellence, or capital project organizations across multiple manufacturing sites and are comfortable managing large-scale capital portfolios exceeding $75M-$100M.
Enjoy balancing long-term strategic planning with day-to-day execution, building processes, standards, and governance that improve how an organization operates.
A strong communicator and coach who can influence executives, operations leaders, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders while developing the next generation of engineering talent.

Nice To Haves

Experience primarily focused on individual project execution rather than managing enterprise-wide capital portfolios and investment strategies.
Leadership experience limited to single-site operations, small organizations, or capital programs under $10M-$20M.
Preference for highly structured environments with established systems rather than helping build processes, create alignment, and lead organizational change.

Responsibilities

Lead enterprise-wide capital planning and project portfolio management.
Develop and maintain a rolling five-year capital investment roadmap.
Establish PMO governance, project standards, reporting structures, and execution frameworks.
Partner with plant leadership to identify and prioritize strategic investments.
Oversee major facility, utility, infrastructure, automation, and production equipment projects.
Develop engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.
Drive project execution excellence across multiple manufacturing facilities.
Improve organizational capabilities through standardization, risk management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

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