VP, Engineering

Campbell's•Camden, NJ

About The Position

The Vice President of Engineering provides enterprise leadership for engineering strategy, capital investment, automation, infrastructure, manufacturing technology, and technical capability across Campbell’s manufacturing network. The role translates business priorities into safe, reliable, scalable, and financially sound solutions that support growth, productivity, innovation, sustainability, quality, and operational performance. The VP leads through partnership and service, working across Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, Quality, Finance, Procurement, EH&S, Human Resources, Commercial, and external experts. The position develops people, removes barriers, establishes effective engineering standards and governance, and enables teams closest to the work to help design and execute solutions. It oversees an annual capital portfolio exceeding $150 million and ensures major programs and complex operational challenges receive appropriate internal and external expertise, rigorous technical review, and disciplined execution. The role also advances manufacturing and operational excellence, safety, food safety, quality, compliance, sustainability, and technology modernization. The ideal candidate combines technical credibility and business judgment with a collaborative leadership approach, developing talent and shared ownership across a large, geographically dispersed manufacturing network.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, including Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, or a related discipline.
Minimum 15 years of progressive engineering leadership experience within food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, or a related manufacturing industry.
Minimum 10 years leading large, multi-site engineering organizations or complex enterprise technical networks.
Demonstrated accountability for an annual capital portfolio exceeding $150 million.
Proven success delivering large-scale capital programs, automation initiatives, infrastructure projects, and manufacturing transformations through cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated ability to mobilize diverse expertise, make sound technical decisions, and turn complex business needs into sustainable solutions.
Experience developing engineering talent, building organizational capability, and leading through influence across a geographically dispersed network.
Experience leading engineering for a multi-site food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, or comparable manufacturing network.
Experience directing major automation, digital manufacturing, processing, packaging, utilities, facilities, or infrastructure programs.
Experience building partnerships across Manufacturing, Operations, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, Quality, EH&S, HR, IT, and Commercial functions.
Experience establishing and leveraging internal and external expert networks to improve technical decisions and project outcomes.
Demonstrated servant leadership through coaching, barrier removal, talent development, and empowerment of teams.
Experience leading organizational transformation, capability building, standardization, and culture change across a complex enterprise.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
Professional Engineer (PE) certification.
Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, project management, or reliability certification.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a multi-year enterprise engineering strategy aligned with business growth, network needs, productivity, sustainability, innovation, and operational excellence.
Lead with a servant leadership mindset by listening, creating clarity, removing barriers, and enabling teams to perform effectively.
Build an inclusive, high-performing engineering organization and develop talent through coaching, stretch assignments, succession planning, communities of practice, and exposure to enterprise priorities.
Establish engineering standards, governance, project management disciplines, and decision rights while empowering teams to act with appropriate ownership and speed.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders from problem definition through design, execution, commissioning, and benefits realization.
Integrate business, operational, technical, safety, quality, financial, workforce, and customer perspectives into major decisions and solution designs.
Engage plant teams, operators, maintenance, technical specialists, and functional leaders throughout the project lifecycle; facilitate alignment and resolve issues in the enterprise’s best interest.
Partner with innovation and commercial teams to ensure products, processes, and technologies are designed for manufacturability, scalability, reliability, and sustainable execution.
Identify, convene, and leverage internal and external expertise; build technical networks and communities of practice across engineering disciplines.
Ensure major solutions receive multidisciplinary technical review and validation; promote proven design standardization, knowledge sharing, benchmarking, and thoughtful adaptation to local needs.
Lead and govern an annual capital investment portfolio exceeding $150 million, and develop long-range capital plans for capacity, network optimization, automation, infrastructure, reliability, compliance, growth, and competitiveness.
Prioritize investments using strategic value, operational need, technical risk, financial return, resource capacity, and enterprise interdependencies.
Ensure appropriate project governance, front-end planning, risk management, technical assurance, change control, benefits tracking, and shared accountability for safe, timely, on-budget delivery.
Ensure projects include operator and maintainer input and plans for training, commissioning, startup, handoff, and sustained performance.
Partner with manufacturing and plant leadership to improve safety, asset utilization, throughput, reliability, quality, yield, labor effectiveness, and cost performance.
Apply Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, reliability-centered maintenance, and other relevant methods to build local capability and address business needs.
Champion practical digital manufacturing, automation, controls, data, and smart factory solutions; provide technical support while building teams’ ability to diagnose and prevent recurring problems.
Embed worker safety, food safety, quality, environmental stewardship, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance in engineering decisions and designs.
Ensure engineering standards and solutions meet applicable corporate, FDA, OSHA, environmental, and industry requirements.
Advance sustainability priorities including energy efficiency, waste reduction, water conservation, emissions reduction, and responsible resource use.
Evaluate emerging technologies with relevant internal and external partners; lead disciplined pilots and scale-up efforts that assess feasibility, operational value, workforce impact, and economic return.
Enable innovative processing, packaging, automation, digital, and infrastructure solutions, ensuring technology is interoperable, supportable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture and long-term manufacturing strategy.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Short- and long-term disability insurance
AD&D insurance
Life insurance
Matching 401(k) plan with immediate vesting
Unlimited sick time
Paid time off
Holiday pay
Free access to the fitness center for employees in WHQ
Access to on-site day care operated by Bright Horizons
Company store
Campbell’s Cares matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Wellness benefits