Job Category:

Project & Program Management

Job Family:

Technical Project Management

Job Description:

We team up with some of the biggest names in food to make things people love. But for us, it’s never just about what’s on the plate. It’s about the good we can do together. Because when we do good through food, everybody wins.

The Regional Project Engineering Manager leads a portfolio of engineering projects from concept through start-up, ensuring technical specifications, timelines, budgets, and business outcomes are achieved. The role recommends tactical and operational strategies for the engineering project portfolio and directs execution of strategies set by functional and/or executive leadership. This leader manages a multi-discipline project team and/or multiple project teams, partners cross-functionally, and works with external vendors/contractors to deliver safe, compliant, and reliable solutions while driving significant improvements to processes, systems, and project delivery effectiveness.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Recommend tactical and operational strategies for the engineering project portfolio that directly impact department and/or plant results.

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of plant and site capital projects, including feasibility, design coordination, procurement support, installation, commissioning, and handover to Operations.

• Translate functional/executive direction into operational plans and a project roadmap (scope, sequencing, resourcing, and risk posture).

• Establish portfolio governance (standards, templates, stage gates, decision rights) to improve predictability, throughput, and value delivery

• Lead engineering projects from concept, requirements, and design through procurement, construction/implementation, commissioning, and handover to operations.

• Ensure delivery to agreed success criteria: safety, scope, schedule, cost, quality, and operational readiness; address dependencies across functions (Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, etc.).

• Drive resolution of complex, ambiguous, and often undefined problems through analysis, investigation, and use of deep prior experience; implement corrective actions and preventive improvements.

• Manage project/portfolio budgets across multiple initiatives with accountability for moderate expenditures across multiple areas/teams, including appropriate approval/signature authority.

• Develop business cases with clear assumptions, options, risks, and benefits, influence investment and prioritization decisions with senior leaders.

• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the department and routinely with external parties (suppliers, engineering firms, contractors, authorities as applicable), including negotiation on operational issues when needed.

• Lead executive-ready briefings on project status, tradeoffs, and risk; align stakeholders on new concepts, practices, and approaches.

• Select and manage external partners and vendors through existing governance; ensure contracts/scopes support delivery outcomes, quality, and compliance expectations.

• Deliver significant improvements to project delivery processes, engineering standards, systems, and tools to enhance department/plant performance.

• Build internal capability through playbooks, lessons learned, standard work, and training; promote disciplined risk management and change control.

• Lead cross‑functional and multi-site teams, influencing without direct authority in a matrixed, multi‑site environment.