Senior Director, Engineering

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We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Director Engineering at our Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest IL.

The Senior Director Engineering provides strategic and technical leadership for engineering product development cost reduction product improvement and commercialization. This role establishes engineering priorities directs technical resources and investments and leads complex programs that strengthen the base business and enable future growth. The position is accountable for engineering talent departmental budgets project governance manufacturing support and external technical partnerships.

You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

Engineering Strategy and Innovation

• Defines and leads engineering and next-generation product development opportunities that support the 3-5 year innovation pipeline and business growth priorities.
• Integrates consumer marketplace technical operational and business insights into engineering strategies technology roadmaps and project plans.
• Identifies emerging technologies concepts materials processes and product features for potential use in existing operations and future products.
• Establishes the scope cost timing resource requirements development path and expected business value for engineering and innovation opportunities.
• Advances open innovation and external technology scouting to improve products processes speed to market and business performance.

Portfolio Project Management and Governance

• Leads the engineering portfolio including product development product improvement cost reduction and operational initiatives.
• Refines and implements stage-gate and project governance processes that prioritize opportunities based on strategic fit technical feasibility business potential financial return risk and speed to market.
• Develops and communicates project schedules milestones resource plans risks decisions and departmental priorities.
• Ensures clear reporting on project status timelines financial performance and resource needs to business and senior leadership.
• Establishes engineering standards and procedures for project management cost estimating capital planning prototyping technical documentation and commercialization.

Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement

• Partners with Manufacturing and Operations to improve process capability product quality productivity cost reliability and safe operations.
• Confirms project assumptions and production variables including run rates scrap levels material performance quality parameters and capital requirements.
• Applies engineering statistical Lean and continuous improvement methods to resolve complex technical challenges and improve business performance.

Financial and Resource Management

• Owns departmental capital and expense budgets and ensures performance within approved financial targets and procedures.
• Develops and manages program economics including product costs prototyping costs project capital timing and expected financial returns.
• Allocates engineering resources across priorities and recommends investments based on business need technical risk capacity and expected value.

Leadership and Talent Management

• Leads develops and engages engineering and technical professionals responsible for product development commercialization and operational support.
• Establishes aligned objectives provides ongoing coaching and feedback and completes performance and development reviews.
• Drives workforce planning selection onboarding succession planning and retention while building a collaborative accountable and results-oriented engineering culture.

External Partnerships and Intellectual Property

• Builds and manages relationships with vendors suppliers technical experts research partners and industry innovators to advance priority engineering initiatives.
• Partners with Legal to develop intellectual property landscapes and strategies and protect confidential technical information.

You Will Love It Here If

• You listen learn and evolve
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment
• You put safety first always
• You are passionate about collaboration teamwork and achieving shared goals
• You believe in treating all people with respect operating ethically and growing a diverse equitable and inclusive workplace
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences

Education/Experience

Required

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or another relevant technical field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience to successfully perform the essential functions of the position.
• 12 years of progressive engineering product development manufacturing operations or technical leadership experience including project management and leadership of technical professionals or cross-functional teams.
• 30% - 40% travel required

Preferred

• Masters degree in Engineering Product Development Operations or Business Administration.
• PMP Six Sigma Black Belt Lean or Continuous Improvement certification.
• Experience with plastics processing film converting thermoforming packaging polymer materials or related manufacturing technologies.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Experience leading complex programs from concept through commercialization in a consumer products packaging plastics manufacturing or similarly technical environment.
• Broad technical knowledge of product development engineering manufacturing processes prototyping testing commercialization and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to establish technical strategy and translate business priorities into executable engineering plans.
• Strong project and portfolio management capabilities including stage-gate governance resource planning and risk management.
• Ability to diagnose complex technical and business challenges and implement practical solutions.
• Knowledge of statistical and analytical methods including design of experiments and statistical process control and of Lean manufacturing principles.
• Familiarity with intellectual property strategy processes and terminology.
• Excellent written verbal presentation and influencing skills with the ability to communicate at all organizational levels.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and relevant project management engineering statistical or design software.

Competencies

• Strategic Mindset - Anticipates future technical and market needs and translates insights into engineering strategies and long-term growth opportunities.
• Decision Quality - Evaluates technical feasibility strategic fit business potential risk and financial return to guide priorities and investments.
• Drives Results - Advances engineering commercialization cost reduction and operational programs to achieve business commitments.
• Plans and Aligns - Translates business priorities into clear objectives and coordinates people and resources to deliver results.
• Collaborates - Builds effective partnerships across functions and with external organizations to solve problems and deliver results.
• Develops Talent - Builds organizational capability through clear expectations coaching development selection and succession planning.

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