Vice President, Engineering

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Voyant Beauty

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1989

🏭 Manufacturing

💄 Beauty

🤝 B2B

Manufacturing • Beauty • B2B

Voyant Beauty is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on personal care, beauty, and household products. It operates an integrated manufacturing network in the U. S. , Canada, and Europe with facilities that produce fragrance, aerosols, bar soap, and liquid products for categories including skincare, haircare, body care, home care, men's care, pet care, and OTC topical drugs. Voyant offers end-to-end capabilities including ideation, formulation, R&D, testing, plant scaling/tech transfer, pilot engineering, quality assurance, packaging design, regulatory assistance and supply chain solutions. The company emphasizes innovation, vertical integration, ESG, and quality assurance, and presents itself as a partner for brands seeking manufacturing, formulation, and commercialization services.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the engineering, maintenance, and facilities infrastructure strategy aligned with corporate goals • Identify technology and process investments supporting business growth, scalability, and customer expectations • Own and prioritize a multi-year engineering roadmap • Oversee facilities engineering, site layout, utilities, infrastructure upgrades, maintenance programs, reliability initiatives, and preventive/predictive maintenance strategies • Ensure facilities and infrastructure meet operational, safety, and environmental standards • Own the engineering capital expenditure budget, forecasting, and scenario planning • Oversee facility expansions or strategic closures, new equipment installations, automation initiatives, ROI analyses, project timelines, and stakeholder communication • Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver engineering initiatives on time and within budget • Guide continuous improvement in process design, quality assurance, production efficiency, and sustainability • Collaborate with Operations and Quality to reduce waste, downtime, and variability • Manage change management for process improvements and technology upgrades • Drive reliability programs to improve equipment performance • Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team across process, packaging, facilities, and maintenance • Ensure team development, succession planning, and performance management • Partner with Commercial, R&D, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance to launch products, resolve technical challenges, and improve customer satisfaction • Ensure engineering and maintenance activities meet FDA, ISO, GMP, OSHA, safety, and environmental standards • Represent engineering, facilities infrastructure, and maintenance and reliability leadership in executive meetings, customer presentations, and board updates • Evaluate and implement manufacturing technologies and systems, including smart manufacturing and flow to the customer • Develop and manage engineering budgets, timelines, and KPIs • Oversee third-party contractors, consultants, and vendors • Promote accountability, innovation, and operational excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Industrial) (Required) • 15 years of progressive engineering leadership experience, with at least 5 years in a senior/executive role within a contract manufacturing, personal care, CPG, food, personal care, or pharmaceutical industry (Required) • Proven success managing multi-site engineering operations and leading capital investment programs exceeding $10M (Required) • Proven success leading and managing Facilities Engineering as well as Maintenance and Reliability of infrastructure and manufacturing assets (Required) • Ability to align engineering vision with corporate goals and long-term growth strategies • Mastery in planning, budgeting, and executing large-scale capital projects in a manufacturing environment • Understanding of Lean Six Sigma principles and continuous improvement tools, including Kaizen, Gemba, Root Cause and Corrective Action, Problem Solving Techniques, and DMAIC • In-depth knowledge of manufacturing systems, equipment, automation, and packaging technologies • Ability to lead, coach, and inspire engineering teams at all levels • Skilled in presenting to executives, managing stakeholders, and fostering cross-functional alignment • Familiarity with FDA, GMP, ISO, OSHA, EPA, and other relevant regulations • Commitment to delivering high-value technical solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities for development and advancement • Safe and secure work environment • Equal employment opportunities • Disability accommodations consistent with applicable laws