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Regional Engineering Director - LATAM (all genders)

Job Details

Contract Type:
Unlimited / Full-Time
Job Start Date:
6/1/2025
Country / City:
Mexico / Silao
Company:
Beiersdorf Manufacturing Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Job Function:
Production & Technology

Your Tasks

The Regional Engineering Director is responsible to deliver multi million Euros, highly complex engineering investments in LATAM Region, ensuring effective planning, design, development, and execution across all sites guaranteeing current and future business needs.

Strategy

  • Deploy a comprehensive regional engineering strategy aligned with the company's overall vision, mission, and objectives. Lead the development and deployment of projects, investment plan, capability, and technology development of LATAM production sites, as well future SC manufacturing technology needs.

Capex Governance

  • Leads the yearly and long-term Capex planning for the manufacturing sites across region and tracks implementation. Collaborate with peers on long term strategic masterplan for the region.

Project Management

  • Oversee the execution of multiple engineering projects, ensuring timely completion, adherence to budget, full scope, success criteria and business cases delivery, while also guaranteeing compliance with safety, quality and company standards.
    Coordinate with global engineering teams and executes an excellent stakeholder management to align project priorities, resources, and objectives. Ensures effective project management methodologies, risk management strategies, performance metrics and communication to optimize project outcomes and engagement at all levels of the organization.

Technology Development

  • Responsible to foster and co-develop Manufacturing Technology and Digitalization Initiatives adopting and implementing advanced technologies and digital solutions across the Region. Drive process optimization, efficiency improvements, and data-driven decision-making. Collaborate with Global teams and Manufacturing leaders, assuring seamless integration of new technologies for productivity, automation, digitalization, continuous improvement, and sustainability along value chain.

Maintenance Roadmap

  • Develop and implement a Lighthouse maintenance strategy aligned with the SC overall objectives, incorporating best practices, and leveraging emerging technologies. Continuously evaluate and refine the maintenance strategy to ensure optimal performance, cost-effectiveness, and equipment reliability across sites.

Organization and Processes

  • Regional content matter lead for technical development of manufacturing sites. Identify and leverage synergies between production sites & corporate Engineering by Identifying organisational needs, changes, and measures for improvement of the organisation and processes ensuring effective communication, capabilities, stakeholder buy-in, and readiness. This role is responsible to drive and continue improve, through the local technical teams, the early management and preventive maintenance at BMM and BMI production sites.

Leadership and Organizational Development

  • Functional lead of overall technical organization in the region. Coach, guide, support, engage and develop a strong talent pipeline and career plans. Ensures and further develops a high performance team, an efficient project and technical organization as well as processes.

Your Profile

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field (mandatory).
  • Master’s degree in engineering management, Operations, or MBA (preferred).
  • 15+ years in manufacturing, engineering, or supply chain functions.
  • 5+ years in senior leadership roles with regional/global scope.
  • Proven record managing multi-million Euro/dollar engineering investments.
  • Expertise in CAPEX planning, technology implementation, and sustainability initiatives.
  • Experience in FMCG or high-volume manufacturing industries (preferred).
  • Familiarity with LATAM markets and cultural diversity.
  • Leadership: Team development, stakeholder management, and fostering a high-performance culture.
  • TPM: experience in leading PM and EM work.
  • Project Management: Cross-functional and cross-border project delivery.
  • Strategic: Data-driven decision-making and aligning strategies with organizational goals.
  • Fluent in English (mandatory).
  • Spanish and/or Portuguese (preferred).
  • Travel: Extensive regional and international travel.

Additional information

We embrace Diversity and Inclusion and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of race, gender, age, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, cultural, ethnic or national origins. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae, salary expectations, relevant references and certificates) and encourage you to upload your CV without a picture. If you have any questions, please contact our recruiter Sadya Azzahra every Tuesday between 13:30 to 14:30 CET via the telephone number: +49 40 49095780

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    Get to know: Mateusz

    Logistics is one of the most exciting parts of Supply Chain in Beiersdorf. My journey there has begun in 2015 – from operational level in warehousing, through VAS planning, regional logistics, up to global logistics with a lot of interesting projects for all this time. This part of supply chain gives a lot of fun, great connections, interesting tasks, exciting projects, opportunities to travel, and chance for personal development, learning and growth.