Senior Director, Engineering - Performance Acceleration Engineering

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Performance Acceleration Engineering leads the engineering pillar within the Grocery Network Performance Acceleration team. This role is responsible for providing the technical engineering capability required to identify, design, validate, and scale higher-complexity process, automation, in-depth business analytics, operational flow, and mechanism improvements across the network.

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering pillar of the Performance Acceleration model
• Provide overall direction for the engineering function within the Grocery Network Performance Acceleration organization
• Establish and lead the engineering strategy that supports network performance improvement, technical enablement, and scalable solution design
• Ensure engineering work is aligned to business priorities, operational needs, and the future-state PA operating model
• Serve as the senior engineering leader interfacing with Operations, CoE, divisional leaders, field teams, and key support partners
• Drive technical solution design and engineering enablement
• Oversee the identification, design, and implementation of engineering-enabled solutions that reduce operating expense, improve service, improve safety, and enhance operational performance
• Lead the evaluation of technical opportunities involving automation, material flow, equipment capability, mechanism design, infrastructure constraints, and broader operating-system improvements
• Ensure engineering-supported initiatives are grounded in strong technical feasibility, operational practicality, and long-term scalability
• Apply industrial engineering, systems thinking, data analysis, and technology-enabled methods to improve flow, capacity, and performance across the network
• Support pilot validation, scale readiness, and deployment
• Partner with CoE and field teams to ensure technically complex pilots are properly validated and packaged for scale
• Support the transition of solutions from development and pilot through rollout and sustainment by ensuring technical requirements, assumptions, and constraints are clearly understood
• Review and approve engineering plans, implementation timelines, budgets, and operational readiness for multi-site initiatives where engineering support is required
• Visit sites and engage with field teams to validate needs, remove barriers, and ensure technical solutions are progressing according to plan while minimizing operational disruption
• Provide governance, visibility, and partnership across the network
• Build strong working relationships with divisional leaders, operations leaders, engineering partners, suppliers, and internal support teams to align priorities and resources
• Review and confirm business cases, financial analyses, and project justifications for engineering-supported work
• Provide visibility to senior leadership on technical opportunities, risks, readiness, constraints, and expected value
• Present engineering concepts, design recommendations, and network-enablement plans to senior leadership for review and decision-making
• Lead high-impact engineering teams and capabilities
• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization capable of solving complex network problems and supporting technically enabled performance improvement
• Manage priorities and resource allocation across multiple engineering initiatives and ensure the team is focused on the highest-value work
• Build organizational capability in data-enabled engineering, mechanism design, technical problem solving, and scalable operational support
• Strengthen the team’s ability to develop engineering solutions that simplify field execution, reduce redundant work, and increase adoption

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering is engaged on the right opportunities requiring technical depth and system-level thinking
• Technical solutions are feasible, scalable, and integrated effectively into pilot, rollout, and sustainment processes
• Operational barriers tied to engineering, infrastructure, capacity, or mechanism design are solved more quickly and more effectively
• High-impact engineering-supported solutions are scaled successfully with less rework and less operational disruption
• Leadership has strong visibility into technical opportunity, risk, and value across the network
• The engineering function is seen as a practical enabler of performance acceleration, not a siloed specialty team

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field and 6 years’ experience in Industrial Engineering, supply chain, or a related area OR 8 years’ experience in Industrial Engineering, supply chain, or a related area
• 4 years’ supervisory experience

Additional Compensation

• Annual salary range: $130,000.00 - $260,000.00
• Performance-based bonus awards

Benefits

• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement

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