VP, Global Project Engineering
Location
California
Posted
5 hours ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
VP, Global Project Engineering
FORTNA
• Define and lead the global project engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, customer requirements, and project delivery. • Lead and scale a global, multi-disciplinary engineering organization (~400 employees) across Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls engineering. • Build, develop, and scale high-performing engineering teams, driving a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Own engineering execution, delivery, and technical direction in close partnership with Project Delivery and commercial leadership. • Establish engineering best practices, operating models, and governance frameworks across global project engineering teams. • Drive consistency and excellence in engineering standards, design quality, and execution across regions and projects. • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Supply Chain, and Field teams to accelerate delivery and business outcomes. • Balance near-term project delivery with long-term organizational capability, capacity planning, and technical sustainability. • Own engineering resource planning, including workforce strategy, skill mix, and global capacity optimization. • Drive accountability, operating rhythms, and execution discipline across the engineering organization. • Translate technical strategies into clear business value for executive stakeholders. • Develop and execute multi-year engineering capability and investment roadmaps aligned to growth and innovation priorities. • Develop leadership talent and succession plans across the global engineering organization. • Provide architectural and technical oversight while empowering regional and functional engineering leaders. • Partner with executive leadership on strategy, investment decisions, and long-term delivery capabilities. • Represent engineering leadership internally and externally with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
Job Requirements
- Executive-level leadership experience in engineering organizations preferred.
- Proven ability to build, lead, and scale large, complex engineering organizations in global environments.
- Demonstrated success leading distributed and remote teams at scale.
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders.
- Proven success managing large engineering budgets, resource plans, and delivery teams.
- Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational and technical oversight.
- Strong experience establishing engineering governance, standards, and execution models.
- Ability to translate complex engineering topics into business outcomes and customer value.
- Experience driving organizational change, scaling, and transformation.
- Strong communication and leadership presence with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, or related discipline); advanced degree preferred
- 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including executive-level roles
- Experience leading large-scale, global engineering teams (200+ employees strongly preferred)
- Experience in material handling, automation, supply chain, or distribution/fulfillment environments strongly preferred
Benefits
- Equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons
- Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
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