Crush it here!

We're not just about grapes. Our bold ambition is to be the leading company of convenient, good for you, fruit-based food and beverage globally. To make this happen, we need talented, agile and innovative people who want to help us grow something special together.

Our culture is authentic, and we are building an inclusive environment where you belong and can be the best version of yourself. If you're passionate about achieving goals, trying new things and making an impact every day, we want to hear from you!

Position Summary:

We're looking for a Director of Corporate Engineering who will be responsible for setting and delivering the strategic and operating objectives of Corporate Engineering to meet corporate short- and long-term business strategies.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborates with corporate and plant resources in order to leverage continuous improvement thinking in support of Supply Chain Excellence.
• Responsible for ensuring large scale projects are successfully implemented on time and on budget, including but not limited to new innovation, platform, cost savings, capacity and/or other highly visible capital projects.
• Manages engineering resources to ensure that the Company's facilities maximize their capability to receive, store, process and package finished product through efficient and effective planning, technical evaluation, and implementation of the capital investment program.
• Manages the multi-year capital planning process to ensure the most effective use of the company capital assets; prepares corporate capital budget annually; coordinates the capital priority systems; recommends and controls corporate capital cash flow as needed to meet timelines and budget objectives.
• Ensures compliance with Welch's legal and regulatory responsibilities in regards to environmental requirements, food safety, people safety, etc. (i.e. OSHA, EPA, USDA, FDA, etc.).
• Leads staff in understanding the Strategic Growth Plan (SGP) and their role to support justification, planning, and execution of key capital projects identified.
• Responsible through engineering and plant staff for facilities and equipment design and implementation of technology to assure efficient manufacturing practices.
• Responsible for hiring and career development of staff, encompassing performance management, identifying development needs and opportunities
• Supports and collaborates with local plant management sponsors to implement and utilize asset care management via the use of technology, continuous improvement tools, and standard work procedures that are to be used to extend asset life.
• Provides leadership for the Engineering organization by defining, building and leading Engineers in project execution, in line with best-practice project leadership methodology
• Ensures full compliance with CQV (Commissioning, Qualification & Verification process) and other commercialization procedures during execution of key projects
• Defines and ensures project objectives, milestones, deliverables and work methods during key project execution phases, including providing key capital and engineering updates to senior leadership.
• Responsible for preparing materials and leading Capital & Budgeting reviews, including Monthly Capital Meetings with Welch's Leadership Team (WLT).
• Participates in various stakeholder governance meetings as required, including Stage-gate, Board of Directors, Productivity, Value Engineering, CQV, etc.
• Supports VP of Operations as extended staff member
• Leads select projects as working engineer in conjunction with leadership responsibilities
• Responsible for monitoring, reporting and delivering budgeted cashflow
• Additional responsibilities, assignments, and special projects as assigned

Who You Are:

• Someone who has Functional/technical engineering excellence
• You have strong strategic capabilities and business acumen
• You drive for results, and hold people accountable
• You embrace and manage ambiguity
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You work collaboratively with other functions in support of accomplishing Strategic Planning initiatives.
• You have strong leadership capabilities in directing and guiding the work of other technical talent.
• Collaborative partner who works across all functions and at all levels of the organization, including Marketing, R&D, Finance, IT and Operations
• A track record of leading and building teams; able to hold employees accountable for results; able to recognize when education and training is needed.
• A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual; able to motivate him/herself and others; a natural bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Current on Engineering practices, continually developing personal knowledge and connected to the Engineering and other technical communities.
• You have strategic leadership competencies, including delivery execution, commercialization excellence, resource and project prioritization.

What You'll Need:

• S. Engineering degree required MBA preferred
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, or project management roles of increasing responsibility, preferably in food or CPG manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading initiatives across multiple locations (i.e. plants, corporate, etc.)
• Maintenance experience desired
• PSM experience/expertise desired
• Proficiency in Office Applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Preferred location is North East, PA. Also can be based in Concord, MA or Lawton, MI
• Able to travel 25-40% of the time dependent upon office location

What You'll Enjoy:

• Organization with a bold, clear purpose.
• Authentic culture that supports working together to deliver results.
• Workplace where teams care about each other and your voice is heard.
• 40 hours paid time off to volunteer for all non-union employees
• Core and voluntary benefits so you can choose the right recipe for you.
• Generous 401(k) plan with annual company match.
• Learning and development opportunities with coaching.
• Safe and clean working environment
• Collaborative colleagues working together to deliver results

Welch's is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Protected Veteran