Employee Type:
Full timeLocation:
TX NorthlakeJob Type:
EngineeringJob Posting Title:
Senior Manager, EngineeringAbout Us:
TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.
Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values—Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.
What You Gain:
Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day!
401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.
Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).
Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.
An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.
Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.
Job Description:
About the Role:
We are seeking a strategic and collaborative Senior Manager, Engineering to serve as a key engineering leader for the Coffee, Tea, and Non-Dairy Creamer businesses. In this critical leadership role, you will guide a high-performing engineering team in developing and executing a 5-year capital plan aligned with our broader business strategy. You will oversee the capital workstream using a structured Initiative Management process, ensuring the seamless delivery of key projects. A key focus will be on strengthening the team’s technical capabilities to support successful execution of capital programs and long-term operational excellence.
You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:
- Collaboratively form and lead internal and external cross functional resources to develop the BU 5yr capital plan. Includes implementation of projects at multiple locations across the U.S. and Canada.
- Lead teams to ensure all aspects of assigned capital projects are managed following our Capital Initiative Management program.
- Responsible for the team’s project KPIs including safety, food safety, environmental impacts, operational impacts, adherence to scope, CQV performance, on time delivery, cash flow, and overall budget tracking.
- Partner with capital sourcing manager to develop procurement strategies on assigned projects and execute them.
- Lead team to develop and review business case screening scopes, schedules and estimates on strategic ideas.
- Review with leadership to provide a directional view of projects; ultimately lead process through approval on prioritized projects.
- Mentor, coach and lead team members, both internal and external, to ensure resources meet the total BU engineering needs.
- Work cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, EHS, Trans & Warehousing, Supply Planning, Technical Services, Reliability and Maintenance, Environmental, Sustainability, R&D, Finance, the BU teams, and IT to deliver assigned goals and projects.
- Lead the deployment of Initiative Management Pillar for the TreeHouse Management Operating Structure across assigned BU plants.
- Quantify losses at each facility and partner with site teams to develop master plans to eliminate losses and improve quality, reducing costs and improving efficiency, yield, and customer satisfaction.
Important Details:
- This is a full-time role that is expected to travel approximately 50% across assigned plants within the US and Canada.
- The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $132,300 to $198,500 annually. This is the lowest to highest salary that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay.
You’ll fit right in if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field
- Experience in food and beverage capital project execution
- Proficient in coffee roasting and grinding processes
- Experience with liquid flavor systems for coffee and/or tea
- Expertise with spray drying towers and processes
- 10+ years of Project Management experience that includes managing several capital projects totaling ~$5 million per year
- Experienced in multi-site capital planning.
- Demonstrated strategic planning capabilities.
- Experience leading a team of direct reports preferred
- Formal project management training or certifications are a plus
- Plant experience in operations, maintenance, and/or engineering preferred
- Experience with utility systems, wastewater pre-treatments systems, ingredient handling, food processing, and primary and secondary packaging systems preferred
- Demonstrated track record of following LEAN Capital Initiative Management processes.
- Continuous improvement mindset, to challenge current processes both internally and externally with ability to bring adaptable solutions forward
- Proven skills in project management, negotiation, communication, and technical problem solving
- Comfortable communicating, presenting & influencing Sr. Leadership on key technical issues
- Proficient with CADD and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
- Proven effectiveness in working collaboratively within a matrix organization
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At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact [email protected]
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What We Do
Rooted in tradition and built with a strategic vision, TreeHouse Foods provides private label food and beverage offerings to retail grocery and food away from home customers across North America.
TreeHouse’s branches extend across multiple product categories providing custom solutions for most of the leading grocery retailers and foodservice operators in the United States and Canada. Our growing product portfolio includes: Baked Goods, Condiments, Snacks, Meals and Beverage
Customers partner with TreeHouse to receive the best service, quality, and value for their custom brands. Our integrity, operational excellence, and market insights have made for a great view up here at TreeHouse and we like what we see on the horizon.
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