Senior Manager, Engineering

TreeHouse Foods; Toronto; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RRSP match

Paid time off

Vacation & sick days

Holidays

Training programs

DevelopU platform

Wellness programs

Employee resource groups

Job summary

TreeHouse Foods is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead 5-year capital planning and project execution across multiple food manufacturing facilities in the US and Canada. You will guide a high-performing engineering team, oversee a Capital Initiative Management program, and strengthen technical capabilities for long-term operational excellence.

You will partner with functions including Operations, Quality, EHS, Finance and IT to deliver ambitious capital goals while mentoring team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field required.
• Aseptic environment experience preferred (operations, maintenance, startup, validation).
• Multi-site capital planning experience required; strategic planning skills essential.
• Formal project management training or certifications are a plus.
• Experience with utility systems, wastewater pre-treatments, ingredient handling, food processing, packaging preferred.
• LEAN Capital Initiative Management processes familiarity is expected.
• Strong continuous improvement mindset; ability to propose adaptable solutions.
• Ability to communicate and influence senior leadership on technical issues.
• Proficiency with CAD and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.

Responsibilities

• Lead 5-year capital plan development for manufacturing facilities in scope.
• Oversee capital projects using the Capital Initiative Management program.
• Monitor KPIs: safety, environmental, budget, cash flow, schedule.
• Develop procurement strategies with sourcing manager.
• Review business cases and drive project approvals.
• Mentor and lead internal and external engineers to meet needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver goals and projects.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Capital planning

Project management

Continuous improvement

Senior leadership communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

PM certifications (PMP etc.)

Tools

CAD

Excel

PowerPoint

MS Project

Job description

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

ON Works from Home

Job Type:

Engineering

Job Posting Title:

Senior Manager, Engineering

About Us:

TreeHouse Foods 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!

• RRSP program with a 3% employer match (with increased matches awarded based on service) and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll!

• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days and 11 company 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 lead capital planning and project execution across multiple food manufacturing facilities. 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 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 a 5-year capital plan for manufacturing facilities in scope. This 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 the capital sourcing manager to develop procurement strategies on assigned projects and execute them.
• Support on-site engineering and plant leadership to develop and review business case screening scopes, schedules and estimates on engineering concepts. 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 business’ engineering needs.
• Work cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, EHS, Transportation & Warehousing, Supply Planning, Technical Services, Reliability and Maintenance, Environmental, Sustainability, R&D, Finance, Human Resources/Labor Relations the Growth Unit leaders, and IT to deliver assigned goals and projects.

Important Details:

• This is a full-time role that is expected to travel approximately 50% across assigned plants within the US and Canada.
• This position is for an existing vacancy,
• The preferred locations for this role are Toronto, Ontario or Chicago, Illinois
• The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $124,700.00 - 187,100.00 CAD 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.
• This posting is for an existing vacancy.

You’ll fit right in if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field
• Experience working in an aseptic environment is strongly preferred, including but not limited to operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, capital project execution, startup and process validation
• Experienced in multi-site capital planning. Demonstrated strategic planning capabilities.
• Formal project management training or certifications are a plus
• 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
• Comfortable communicating, presenting & influencing senior leadership on key technical issues
• Proficient with CADD and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Project. Proven effectiveness in working collaboratively within a matrix organization

This job opening is for an existing job vacancy.