The CPSNA Engineering Strategic Project Director will lead high‑impact initiatives at the Puerto Rico and/or Atlanta Plant. This role is accountable for delivering projects from equipment arrival through construction, commissioning, and Vertical Start‑Up (VSU), including developing protocols (IQ/OQ/PQ), training materials, operating procedures, and maintenance strategies (AM and RCM). The Director will integrate the best global practices, oversee on‑site execution, ensure safety, quality, and schedule compliance, and manage dedicated project managers for each initiative.
What You’ll Do for Us :
Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of high impact, multi-year strategic engineering projects that enable the future state of CPS North America capabilities.
Act as the single point accountability for assigned strategic initiatives, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, cost, quality, and safety commitments.
Support NA Engineering in large scale capital projects concept definition, and take the lead in assigned projects from detailed engineering through commissioning and handover, ensuring adherence to CPS Engineering standards, SPP financial controls, and CAPEX governance requirements.
Support NA Engineering team in project feasibility studies, option analysis, and business case development, including risk assessment, ROI evaluation, and alternative scenario recommendations. Collaborate to comply with company, regulatory, legal, environmental, food safety, and KORE requirements.
Oversee assigned projects’ change control, risk management, and issue resolution, escalating as needed to senior leadership.
Partner closely with Manufacturing, Maintenance, PQA, QSE, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, and Automation teams to ensure projects are fully integrated and operationally ready.
Serve as the primary interface with external engineering firms, OEMs, system integrators, and contractors, ensuring quality execution and contractual compliance.
Coordinate with CPS NA Engineering, Master Plan, Automation, and Transformation teams to ensure consistency and alignment across initiatives.
Lead the deployment of new technologies, equipment, and manufacturing solutions that improve safety, capacity, quality, cost, and flexibility.
Evaluate emerging technologies and engineering solutions, supporting pilots, proof of concepts, and scale up decisions.
Support digitalization and automation initiatives in partnership with Automation and OE teams.
Lead final commissioning, qualification, and handover of projects to Operations, ensuring stable start ups and achievement of expected performance.
Partner with Manufacturing and PQA teams to support process validation, documentation, and training for new systems and technologies.
Ensure lessons learned are captured and embedded into engineering standards and future projects.
Drive structured change management for strategic projects, ensuring stakeholder engagement, readiness, and adoption across impacted functions.
Communicate project status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior leadership and governance forums.
Lead, mentor, and develop project managers, engineers, and technical resources assigned to strategic initiatives.
Build strong project management and engineering execution capabilities through coaching, standards deployment, and best practice sharing.
Foster a culture of safety, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within project teams.
Promote continuous improvement in project execution methodologies, tools, and governance.
Benchmark internally and externally to identify best practices in capital project delivery and engineering excellence.
Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Data Compilation, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Manufacturing Analytics, Mechanical Engineering, Microsoft Office, Process Control, Process Engineering, Production Processes, Quality Engineering, Risk Assessments, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Supply Chain Processes
Puerto Rico
Cidra
00% - 25%
No
November 9, 2026
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