Engineering Innovation Vice President

Are you an Innovative Director of Engineering and looking for your next career move? We’re seeking an Innovative Vice President of Engineering to lead multi-site teams in developing and delivering innovative new products. Partnering with Supply Chain, Procurement, and Innovation leaders, this role will shape products that fuel growth, improve profitability through efficiency, maintain exceptional quality, and advance our sustainability goals. The ideal candidate brings proven experience collaborating directly with external customers at a strategic level. This role will reside in/near Columbia, Missouri.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and oversee Engineering team at multiple sites
• Communicates with internal and external partners to coordinate and execute project plans
• This is a customer facing engineering department who is participates in customer presentations on a regular basis
• Oversee intellectual property by working with highly engineered and patented tool technology, IP trademarks, private licensing agreement
• Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise and judgment in evaluating complex issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Promotes innovation initiatives for new products and ideas.
• Establish and institute fundamental Engineering specifications for prototype and production Testing; and standardize Engineering practices to develop and control drawings and 3D models
• Can lead a New Product Development process through all Stages
• Develop and execute on an Engineering Organizational design that can execute the business strategy
• Responsible for developing an annual budget and managing it to achieve budgeted profitability
• Collaborates with the company’s executive leadership to develop and meet organizational goals while supplying expertise and guidance on projects, operations, and systems.
• Drives excellence in project management and delivers operationally robust solutions to agreed costs and timescales and in conformance with all compliance and safety standards, policies and regulations

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering; Master's preferred
• Experience leading Engineering teams (Innovation/R&D)
• Intellectual Property Experience
• Meeting with external customers, strategizing, planning and developing
• Demonstrated Leadership in cross functional teams and the development of new products.
• Anticipate new business opportunities or challenges to ensure sustainable competitive advantage.
• General knowledge of the processes within marketing, supply chain, production, quality, and R&D.
• Ability to travel as needed.

Full benefit package.