• Own capital portfolio visibility and governance for assigned factories and categories.
• Support the development and prioritization of annual, three-year, and long-range capital plans.
• Drive alignment of capital investments with factory Master Plans, MBS priorities, and category growth strategies.
• Monitor capital envelope performance and proactively identify risks, constraints, and resource gaps.
• Provide recommendations on project prioritization and capital allocation to maximize business value.

• Serve as the technical CAPEX expert and maintain expertise in all current CAPEX policies, procedures, standards, and systems.
• Drive strong stage-gate governance and EFCA compliance throughout project lifecycles.
• Ensure project charters, financial justifications, cost estimates, risk assessments, schedules, and project management plans meet required standards before project approval.
• Conduct regular reviews of capital projects to ensure compliance with engineering standards, financial controls, and governance requirements.
• Ensure lessons learned and best practices are captured and shared across supported factories.

• Partner with Factory Engineering Managers to support concept development, feasibility studies, option analysis, design reviews, design freeze, and change management.
• Assist factories in resolving complex technical and operational challenges that impact safety, quality, reliability, cost, or business continuity.
• Ensure engineering resources, SMEs, technical competency units, vendors, and external experts are effectively leveraged.
• Support implementation of category, corporate, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Maintain an understanding of factory processes, technologies, utilities, constraints, and business drivers.

• Support development and management of capital budgets and forecasts.
• Monitor project cash flow, estimate-at-completion (EAC), and capital spending performance.
• Identify and escalate budget, schedule, and scope risks in a timely manner.
• Partner with Finance to improve forecast accuracy and capital performance.
• Ensure projects meet approved financial objectives and deliver expected business benefits.

• Promote an attitude of absolute intolerance toward unsafe conditions and behaviors.
• Ensure all capital projects comply with Nestle safety requirements, food safety standards, GMPs, environmental regulations, and engineering standards.
• Support risk assessments and mitigation plans throughout project lifecycles.
• Support audits, regulatory requirements, and compliance initiatives including NCE, NEE, ammonia safety, and related engineering programs.
• Ensure no capital project is implemented without appropriate consideration of product safety, people safety, quality, and environmental impact.

• Support procurement and contractor management processes.
• Ensure compliance with bidding requirements, contractor qualification requirements, and engineering procurement standards.
• Assist factories in evaluating engineering service providers, contractors, vendors, and technical consultants.
• Promote contractor safety, project quality, and execution excellence.

• Support implementation of automation, electrical and automation (E&A), MES, digital manufacturing, and productivity technologies where applicable.
• Partner with category engineering, E&A teams, and SMEs to standardize technology solutions and best practices.
• Promote innovative engineering solutions that improve safety, reliability, productivity, sustainability, and operational performance.

• Provide direct CAPEX coaching, leadership, and training to Factory Engineering teams.
• Develop engineering capability in project management, governance, financial management, and capital planning.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and best-practice deployment across factories.
• Support succession planning and development of engineering talent.
• Foster strong collaboration among Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and other key functions.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Process, Chemical, Industrial, or equivalent).
• PMP certification preferred.
• MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.

• Minimum 10 years of engineering experience within manufacturing environments.
• Proven experience leading capital projects and capital portfolios.
• Previous Factory Engineering, Project Engineering, Capital Engineering, or equivalent leadership experience preferred.
• Experience with capital planning, project governance, budgeting, forecasting, and financial controls.
• Experience with TPM, NCE, asset management, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and Corporate Engineering.

• Strong technical, leadership, and managerial skills.
• Excellent project and portfolio management capabilities.
• Strong financial acumen and capital budgeting expertise.
• Ability to influence across multiple organizational levels.
• Strong conflict resolution and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic thinker capable of translating business strategy into executable capital plans.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational change.
• Proficiency in SAP, Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and related engineering systems.
• Ability to develop others and build organizational capability.

*This role can be based out of a Home Office.