Vice President Engineering GEM (Great Britain, Europe, Middle East & North Africa)

Position Title:Vice President Engineering GEM (Great Britain, Europe, Middle East & North Africa)

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Requisition ID: 45075 

The Company

Guided by our purpose to celebrate real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food, we are committed to operating responsibly and creating positive impact for our employees, customers, communities, and the environment. Our success is built on talented people who are empowered to make decisions, challenge the status quo, and continuously improve how we work. Together, we foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and high performance.

Relationships

• • Peers: North America VP of Engineering, LATAM & APACSA VP of Engineering, GEM VP of FSQ, GEM VP of EH&S
  • Scope of Responsibilities
    • • Manage the engineering organization's operating and capital budgets, ensuring spending discipline, accurate forecasting, and return on investment across all projects.
      • Champion a culture of continuous improvement, driving the adoption of lean principles and industry best practices across engineering, maintenance, and operations.
      • Provide regular reporting and communication to senior leadership on engineering performance, capital project status, and key risks.
      • Ensure robust risk management practices are in place across engineering, maintenance, and utility systems to protect people, assets, and continuity of operations.
      • Develop and oversee the overall Capital Project Delivery Portfolio, consisting of 300+ active projects and roughly EUR 200M - EUR 400M spend per year, across McCain's GEM asset base, governing prioritization, business cases, IRR and other investment measures, approvals, spend discipline and benefits tracking.
      • Participate as a key champion on multiple high-value initiatives associated with plant and project safety (Construction Safety, Machine Guarding, Pedestrian Safety, Operations Safety, Process Safety, Boiler Safety, Food Safety, and more), engineering standardization, project and portfolio management tool sustainment, and more.
      • Participate in early ideation of strategic business initiatives including new plant builds (greenfield and brownfield), expansions, plant closures, new product development, new technology adoption, mergers and acquisitions, and more.
      • Oversee a utility engineering group responsible for boiler, industrial refrigeration (including ammonia-based systems), and HVAC operations across the GEM manufacturing network, ensuring reliable, code-compliant, and energy-efficient performance.
      • Standardize utility engineering practices, spare-parts strategy, and vendor relationships across sites to reduce operational variability and total cost of ownership.
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        Leadership of Engineering Services for GEM

      • Compliance of the organization to Finance and Procurement policies

    Capital Spend: EUR 200M - EUR 400M yearly

  • Location and Travel

    Candidate Profile

    Experience developing one-year and five-year engineering and CapEx plans and governing a significant multi-site portfolio, ideally at a scale of 200+ projects and EUR 200M+ in annual spend

  • Working knowledge of European and UK engineering, environmental and process safety regulatory frameworks
  • Maintenance - Spending, Budget Adherence
  • OEE - Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Technical

3)   Ability to lead across cultures, countries and sites, building capability, accountability and collaboration within a matrixed, multi-country organization.

2)   Acumen: To understand the competitive landscape of our business and what drives our ability to compete profitably. This allows development of compelling business cases to enroll stakeholders in support of value enhancing initiatives led by Engineering. Mastery of this business capability would include proficiency in the following:

c.   Strategic Perspective: An overall big picture understanding of the business. This encompasses having an understanding of critical interdependencies across functions and geographies, and grasping the short and long-term trade-offs of business decisions.

Must Have: Bachelor's Degree, Engineering

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

AI & Digital Capabilities.

At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know  and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. 

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Job Family: Engineering & Technical

Location(s): NL - Netherlands : North Holland : Amsterdam || FR - France : Other : Reference job description || GB - United Kingdom : Other : Reference job description || NL - Netherlands : Flevoland : Lelystad || NL - Netherlands : Gelderland : Wezep || NL - Netherlands : Limburg : Maastricht || NL - Netherlands : North Brabant : Cuijk || NL - Netherlands : North Brabant : Helmond || NL - Netherlands : North Brabant : Tilburg || NL - Netherlands : Other : Reference job description || NL - Netherlands : Utrecht : Duurstede || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Kruiningen || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Lewedorp || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Rilland || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Yerseke  

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