Director, Engineering PMO

This is not a maintenance role. This is not a project execution role.

This is an opportunity to build the future of engineering project management for a growing manufacturing organization investing heavily in facilities, infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence.

As Director of PMO Engineering, you will help shape how capital investments are identified, prioritized, governed, and executed across multiple manufacturing facilities. You will build processes, develop talent, influence strategy, and create systems that will support the business for years to come.

If you enjoy solving complex challenges, developing people, and creating structure within a fast-moving environment, this role offers a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact.

The Impact You’ll Make

You will lead a growing PMO Engineering organization responsible for overseeing a significant capital investment portfolio across multiple manufacturing facilities. Your leadership will help prioritize, govern, and execute projects that support growth, operational excellence, infrastructure modernization, automation, and long-term business performance.

Your leadership will help transform engineering from a reactive organization into a strategic business partner that proactively plans, prioritizes, and executes investments that improve safety, reliability, productivity, and growth.

What You’ll Do

• Lead enterprise-wide capital planning and project portfolio management.
• Develop and maintain a rolling five-year capital investment roadmap.
• Establish PMO governance, project standards, reporting structures, and execution frameworks.
• Partner with plant leadership to identify and prioritize strategic investments.
• Oversee major facility, utility, infrastructure, automation, and production equipment projects.
• Develop engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Drive project execution excellence across multiple manufacturing facilities.
• Improve organizational capabilities through standardization, risk management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

 

What Makes This Role Exciting?

• Direct ownership of a large-scale capital portfolio.
• Executive-level visibility and influence.
• Opportunity to build a PMO Center of Excellence.
• Significant autonomy and decision-making responsibility.
• Diverse project portfolio ranging from infrastructure and utilities to automation and manufacturing systems.
• Ability to create engineering standards and practices that will shape the future of the organization.

 

What We’re Looking For

• Director-level engineering leadership experience.
• Experience leading large capital portfolios within manufacturing environments.
• Multi-site project management and capital planning expertise.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Ability to influence leaders across operations, engineering, finance, and executive teams.
• Experience building high-performing technical teams.
• Strong project governance and PMO leadership capabilities.

 

Skills & Mindset

Successful candidates typically demonstrate:

• Strategic thinking balanced with operational execution.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to simplify complex technical topics for non-technical audiences.
• Strong coaching and mentoring abilities.
• High accountability and ownership mentality.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Comfort managing competing priorities across multiple locations.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.

 

This Role Is Ideal For You If...

• You have led engineering, PMO, manufacturing excellence, or capital project organizations across multiple manufacturing sites and are comfortable managing large-scale capital portfolios exceeding $75M-$100M.
• You enjoy balancing long-term strategic planning with day-to-day execution, building processes, standards, and governance that improve how an organization operates.
• You are a strong communicator and coach who can influence executives, operations leaders, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders while developing the next generation of engineering talent.

This Role May Not Be the Right Fit If...

• Your experience has primarily focused on individual project execution rather than managing enterprise-wide capital portfolios and investment strategies.
• Most of your leadership experience has been limited to single-site operations, small organizations, or capital programs under $10M-$20M.
• You prefer highly structured environments with established systems rather than helping build processes, create alignment, and lead organizational change.

 

Your Future at Clemens Food Group

This role offers the opportunity to build something meaningful.

You’ll help create the systems, processes, and engineering capabilities that support future growth while developing the next generation of engineering talent. Your work will influence how capital investments are planned and executed across the organization for years to come.

If you’re looking for a role where you can build, lead, influence, and leave a lasting legacy, we’d like to talk with you.

 

Agency Statement:

Clemens Food Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.

 

EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Clemens Food Group to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. All employees are subject to a pre-employment screening process including a background check and drug screen. In addition, we will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to your recruiter.