VP, Global Project Engineering

🕒 July 10

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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FORTNA

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1001 - 5000 employees

📦 Logistics

🚗 Transport

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Private Equity Round on 2019-03

Logistics • Transport • eCommerce

FORTNA is a company that specializes in warehouse optimization, design, and automation services. They leverage proprietary processes, tools, and algorithms to design and deliver solutions that incorporate the best-fit automation technologies and intelligent software for supply chain operations. By focusing on unique industry challenges, FORTNA provides comprehensive and data-driven solutions aimed at improving operational efficiency and profitability across various sectors.

📋 Description

• Define and lead the global project engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, customer requirements, and project delivery. • Lead and scale a global, multi-disciplinary engineering organization (~400 employees) across Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls engineering. • Build, develop, and scale high-performing engineering teams, driving a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Own engineering execution, delivery, and technical direction in close partnership with Project Delivery and commercial leadership. • Establish engineering best practices, operating models, and governance frameworks across global project engineering teams. • Drive consistency and excellence in engineering standards, design quality, and execution across regions and projects. • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Supply Chain, and Field teams to accelerate delivery and business outcomes. • Balance near-term project delivery with long-term organizational capability, capacity planning, and technical sustainability. • Own engineering resource planning, including workforce strategy, skill mix, and global capacity optimization. • Drive accountability, operating rhythms, and execution discipline across the engineering organization. • Translate technical strategies into clear business value for executive stakeholders. • Develop and execute multi-year engineering capability and investment roadmaps aligned to growth and innovation priorities. • Develop leadership talent and succession plans across the global engineering organization. • Provide architectural and technical oversight while empowering regional and functional engineering leaders. • Partner with executive leadership on strategy, investment decisions, and long-term delivery capabilities. • Represent engineering leadership internally and externally with customers, partners, and stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Executive-level leadership experience in engineering organizations preferred. • Proven ability to build, lead, and scale large, complex engineering organizations in global environments. • Demonstrated success leading distributed and remote teams at scale. • Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders. • Proven success managing large engineering budgets, resource plans, and delivery teams. • Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational and technical oversight. • Strong experience establishing engineering governance, standards, and execution models. • Ability to translate complex engineering topics into business outcomes and customer value. • Experience driving organizational change, scaling, and transformation. • Strong communication and leadership presence with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, or related discipline); advanced degree preferred • 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including executive-level roles • Experience leading large-scale, global engineering teams (200+ employees strongly preferred) • Experience in material handling, automation, supply chain, or distribution/fulfillment environments strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities