Director, Engineering (Distribution

BU Engineering Director

The BU Engineering Director is responsible for leading engineering activities across an assigned business unit and supporting operational performance, manufacturing readiness, reliability improvement, capital project execution, and adoption of enterprise engineering standards across manufacturing plants. This role leads Operating Unit Engineering teams within the business unit while partnering cross-functionally to drive engineering alignment, operational performance, technical issue resolution, and effective execution of prioritized capital initiatives across manufacturing operations.

Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with company safety standards, leading engineering activities across assigned business unit operations, providing leadership, coaching, technical support, and capability-building for Operating Unit Engineers within the business unit, driving process optimization, reliability improvement, and engineering performance across manufacturing sites, leading escalation management and support troubleshooting for complex operational, technical, process, and reliability issues across manufacturing sites, driving adoption and implementation of enterprise engineering standards, tools, governance, and best practices across manufacturing sites, supporting manufacturing readiness, startup stabilization, and operational performance improvement initiatives, leading prioritization and execution of capital projects within the business unit, ensuring alignment to operational needs, business priorities, engineering standards, scope, schedule, budget, and safety expectations, partnering with Capital Project Engineering, Operations, and plant leadership to support project planning, readiness, execution, startup, stabilization, and benefits realization for approved capital initiatives, and performing additional duties as assigned.

Essential qualifications include 10+ years of manufacturing engineering, process engineering, reliability engineering, or technical operations experience, 5+ years of leadership or technical leadership experience supporting manufacturing operations, experience supporting high-volume manufacturing operations across 20+ plants, experience improving operational performance related to throughput, uptime, reliability, yield, scrap reduction, and process capability, experience supporting process troubleshooting, operational stabilization, and manufacturing readiness initiatives, experience supporting capital project planning, execution, startup, stabilization, and operational handoff within manufacturing environments, experience driving engineering standardization and best practice adoption across manufacturing operations, strong leadership, communication, organizational, and cross-functional coordination capability, ability to coach, mentor, and support engineering teams across 20+ plants, ability to operate effectively within matrixed manufacturing organizations, and proficiency using common office technology and tools.

Preferred qualifications include experience supporting packaging, plastics, injection molding, extrusion, thermoforming, molded fiber, paper, or related manufacturing operations, and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline highly preferred.