Vice President, Global Manufacturing Engineering

Church & Dwight•Ewing, NJ

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Engineering Vice President will be responsible for enterprise engineering, capital strategy, operational risk governance, facilities, and sustainability across a $6B+ global consumer packaged goods organization. This role will provide global leadership for capital deployment, decarbonization, automation, digitalization, engineering standards, technology transfer, and “build to adapt” technology, and will play a critical role in supporting long-term manufacturing strategy, cost competitiveness, agility, operational resilience, and business continuity across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in engineering, manufacturing, capital planning, sustainability, operational risk management, and enterprise transformation, with a proven ability to lead complex global portfolios in regulated environments. This role will involve cross-functional partnership with Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, Plant Leadership, Treasury, ESO, R&D, regulators, industry groups, and external partners to drive productivity, operational excellence, compliance, manufacturing modernization, and sustainable business growth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline required.
15+ years of progressive leadership experience in engineering, manufacturing, or operations within a capital-intensive, regulated environment required.
Consumer packaged goods experience in Household and Personal Care categories.
Demonstrated experience with process automation and digitalization in global companies.
Demonstrated success leading enterprise capital planning and executing large, complex portfolios with strong governance and financial discipline.
Proven ability to lead enterprise-wide technical, engineering, and operational improvement initiatives.
Experience operating in complex, global organizations with multiple manufacturing facilities.
Experience delivering automation upgrades and control system modernization, including standardization and technology transfer at scale while managing operational and cybersecurity risk.
Familiarity with validation practices and regulated manufacturing expectations, including Computer System Validation and Quality Systems Validation.
Track record of advancing sustainability and decarbonization initiatives through cross-functional partnership.
Strong executive communication, stakeholder alignment, change leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate from the boardroom to the plant floor.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
Relevant professional certifications in engineering, sustainability, project management, safety, or environmental management.
Experience in global consumer packaged goods manufacturing.
Experience with acquisitions, integrations, manufacturing insourcing, or enterprise transformation in complex global environments.

Responsibilities

Lead enterprise-wide engineering and sustainability strategy aligned with long-range manufacturing, capacity, automation, and cost objectives.
Direct more than $120 million in annual capital deployment and oversee capital planning, project prioritization, return on investment analysis, and the Corporate Annual Capital Budget.
Serve as the enterprise authority for sustainability and lead decarbonization and science-based target strategies through practical, operationally grounded programs.
Establish and maintain engineering standards and technology transfer workflows from research and development through commercialization to support scalable, compliant, and cost-effective manufacturing readiness.
Lead manufacturing transformation toward Industry 4.0 standards, process automation, digitalization, control system modernization, standardized technology transfer, and manufacturing systems that enable agentic artificial intelligence.
Strengthen enterprise risk governance, disaster recovery, and business continuity frameworks across facilities, including critical infrastructure, utilities, process safety, operational risk, and cybersecurity risk.
Partner with Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, Plant Leadership, Treasury, ESO, and other stakeholders to deliver productivity, cost savings, service improvements, quality, compliance, and enterprise risk mitigation.
Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, Responsible Care, Factory Mutual requirements, corporate engineering standards, state codes, federal regulations, validation practices, Computer System Validation, and Quality Systems Validation.
Provide oversight to Corporate Engineering and Facilities leadership, including Project Managers and Senior Project Managers, and build, develop, and retain high-performing global engineering and technical teams.
Oversee contractor selection, external engineering partnerships, execution governance, and organizational representation with regulators, industry groups, and external stakeholders.
Direct capital projects from feasibility through design, construction, and startup, including infrastructure modernization, automation, new product launches, capacity expansion, acquisition integration, and manufacturing insourcing.
Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on manufacturing capability, engineering, capital investment, and change management while promoting safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.