Vice President of Engineering

About

The Vice President of Engineering is accountable for building a world‑class engineering organization that delivers fast, accurate, material‑agnostic customer designs and supports the Company's transition from a job‑shop “copy the customer print” model to a highly engineered, creative, rapid‑prototyping, fast‑to‑market solutions model.

This leader will define standards, implement systems, drive process discipline, elevate design capability, and scale the Company's technical engine across all substrates and facilities.

Responsibilities

Organizational Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a high‑performance engineering organization across over 30 company locations.
• Establish clear roles, competencies, metrics, development plans, and succession plans.
• Drive clarity, accountability, and a continuous‑improvement culture.

Standards, Controls & Technical Governance

• Establish and maintain engineering standards and controls across all business units.
• Create and own the master document and revision‑control system for all customer drawings, specs, and engineering files.
• Implement consistent Design SLAs—speed‑to‑quote, speed‑to‑design, documentation accuracy, manufacturability, and review checkpoints.
• Own the Cost Estimating SLA for timely, consistent, and accurate quoting inputs.

Systems Implementation & Digital Enablement

• Lead and complete the Zoho Project roll‑out, ensuring adoption, governance, templates, workflows, and reporting.
• Implement next‑generation design software, tools, CAD/CAE standards, templates, and engineering data management (drawings library).

New Product Launch (NPL) & Engineering Workflow

• Build and own the Company's New Product Launch process—from voice‑of‑customer through design, prototyping, testing, PPAP (if applicable), costing, and handoff to production.
• Drive cross‑functional collaboration with Sales, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain.
• Reduce cycle‑times through standardized workflows, stage‑gate reviews, and better design reuse.

Design Capability & Transformation Leadership

• Lead the Company's shift from job‑shop drawing replication to true design engineering, including:
  • creative and innovative concepts
  • material‑agnostic selection (foam, corrugated, molded pulp, wood, hybrids)
  • rapid prototyping and fast iteration
  • lab testing and validation
  • value engineering and sustainability optimization
• Increase engineering throughput and utilization through structure, tooling, and training.

Costing & Estimating Excellence

• Oversee the cost estimating discipline, ensuring accurate BOMs, labor estimates, material usage, and manufacturability checks.
• Improve consistency of cost models across the Company's substrate families and geographies.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Design cycle‑time vs. SLA
• Cost estimate accuracy and variance
• Engineering utilization & throughput
• Reduction in rework/ECOs driven by engineering inputs
• New Product Launch speed & success rate
• Customer satisfaction with technical support
• Contribution to revenue growth and margin expansion

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required (Packaging, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or related).
• 10+ years in engineering leadership within packaging, manufacturing, automotive, industrial products, or related engineered‑solutions industries.
• Demonstrated success building teams, implementing systems, and scaling engineering operations.
• Experience establishing standards, controls, and disciplined engineering processes.
• Proven ability to drive cultural & process transformation in a multi‑site environment.
• Ability to travel extensively across North America.