VP, Engineering

Campbell's • Camden, NJ

22h • $237,600 - $326,700

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 strengthen growth, productivity, innovation, sustainability, quality, and operational performance.

The VP leads through partnership and service, bringing together manufacturing, operations, supply chain, R&D, quality, finance, procurement, EH&S, human resources, commercial teams, and external experts to define needs, evaluate alternatives, and deliver enterprise-wide outcomes. The role establishes clarity, removes barriers, develops people, and enables the teams closest to the work to contribute to solution design and execution.

The position oversees an annual capital portfolio exceeding $150 million and ensures that appropriate internal and external expertise is applied to major capital programs, network investments, technology modernization, and complex operational challenges. Success depends on disciplined governance, shared ownership, rigorous technical review, and solutions that can be operated, maintained, and sustained in practice.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, such as Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of progressive engineering leadership experience within food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, or a related manufacturing industry.
• At least 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.
• Ability to mobilize diverse expertise, make sound technical decisions, and convert 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 managing annual capital investments of $150 million or more with disciplined governance and demonstrated business outcomes.
• 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 team empowerment.
• 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, listening actively, creating clarity, removing organizational and technical 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 speed and ownership.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders from problem definition through design, execution, commissioning, and benefits realization, integrating business, operational, technical, safety, quality, financial, workforce, and customer perspectives.
• Engage plant teams, operators, maintenance personnel, technical specialists, and functional leaders throughout project lifecycles; facilitate alignment and resolve issues in the enterprise’s best interest.
• Partner with innovation and commercial teams to ensure new products, processes, and technologies are manufacturable, scalable, reliable, and sustainable.
• Identify and leverage appropriate internal and external expertise; create technical networks across processing, packaging, utilities, facilities, automation, controls, reliability, digital manufacturing, and project execution.
• Ensure major solutions receive multidisciplinary technical review and validation; promote proven design reuse while adapting appropriately to site, product, process, and customer needs.
• Capture and share technical knowledge, project learnings, benchmarks, and standards; benchmark external practices and emerging technologies.
• 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 cost competitiveness.
• Prioritize investments transparently, considering strategic value, operational need, technical risk, financial return, resource capacity, and enterprise interdependencies.
• Ensure project teams apply fit-for-purpose governance, front-end planning, risk management, technical assurance, change control, and benefits tracking; support safe, on-time, on-budget delivery and intended outcomes.
• Ensure solutions are developed with the people who will operate and maintain them, including 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 methodologies to build local capability and address business needs.
• Champion practical digital manufacturing, automation, controls, data, and smart factory solutions; provide responsive technical support while building teams’ problem-solving capabilities.
• Balance near-term operational support with long-term asset, technology, and capability strategies.
• Embed worker safety, food safety, quality, environmental stewardship, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance into engineering decisions and designs.
• Ensure engineering standards and solutions meet applicable corporate, FDA, OSHA, environmental, and industry requirements; partner with relevant teams to identify risks, apply controls, and verify performance.
• Advance sustainability through energy efficiency, waste reduction, water conservation, emissions reduction, and responsible resource use.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices with R&D, Operations, IT, Supply Chain, Procurement, suppliers, and technical partners.
• Lead disciplined pilots and scale-up efforts to evaluate technical feasibility, operational value, workforce impact, and economic return.
• Enable innovative processing, packaging, automation, digital, and infrastructure solutions that improve growth, resilience, productivity, quality, and cost competitiveness.
• Ensure technology decisions are interoperable, supportable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture and long-term manufacturing strategy.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, short- and long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance, with coverage options for individuals, families, and domestic partners.
• Matching 401(k) plan with enrollment available on the first day of employment and immediate vesting.
• Unlimited sick time, paid time off, and holiday pay.
• Free access to the fitness center for employees at WHQ.
• Access to on-site day care operated by Bright Horizons and a company store for employees at WHQ.
• Campbell’s Cares matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
• Wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive