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About The Position

Requirements

• Executive-level leadership experience in engineering organizations preferred.
• Proven ability to build, lead, and scale large, complex engineering organizations in global environments.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed and remote teams at scale.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders.
• Proven success managing large engineering budgets, resource plans, and delivery teams.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational and technical oversight.
• Strong experience establishing engineering governance, standards, and execution models.
• Ability to translate complex engineering topics into business outcomes and customer value.
• Experience driving organizational change, scaling, and transformation.
• Strong communication and leadership presence with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, or related discipline); advanced degree preferred
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including executive-level roles
• Experience leading large-scale, global engineering teams (200+ employees strongly preferred)
• Experience in material handling, automation, supply chain, or distribution/fulfillment environments strongly preferred
• Proven experience supporting complex project delivery organizations

Nice To Haves

• Experience in automation, robotics, and system integration environments
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle execution in capital project environments
• Lean, Six Sigma, or operational excellence experience
• Experience working in high-growth, transformation-driven organizations

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global project engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, customer requirements, and project delivery.
• Lead and scale a global, multi-disciplinary engineering organization (~400 employees) across Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls engineering
• Build, develop, and scale high-performing engineering teams, driving a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own engineering execution, delivery, and technical direction in close partnership with Project Delivery and commercial leadership.
• Establish engineering best practices, operating models, and governance frameworks across global project engineering teams.
• Drive consistency and excellence in engineering standards, design quality, and execution across regions and projects.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Supply Chain, and Field teams to accelerate delivery and business outcomes.
• Balance near-term project delivery with long-term organizational capability, capacity planning, and technical sustainability.
• Own engineering resource planning, including workforce strategy, skill mix, and global capacity optimization.
• Drive accountability, operating rhythms, and execution discipline across the engineering organization.
• Translate technical strategies into clear business value for executive stakeholders.
• Develop and execute multi-year engineering capability and investment roadmaps aligned to growth and innovation priorities.
• Develop leadership talent and succession plans across the global engineering organization.
• Provide architectural and technical oversight while empowering regional and functional engineering leaders.
• Partner with executive leadership on strategy, investment decisions, and long-term delivery capabilities.
• Represent engineering leadership internally and externally with customers, partners, and stakeholders.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, citizenship status (if authorized to work in the U.S.), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
• Will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.