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Principal Engineer, Digital Manufacturing at McCain Foods · Toronto
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Job Description
Position Title: Principal Engineer, Digital Manufacturing
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 39492
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
The Manager of Digital Manufacturing Applications is responsible for leading the strategy, execution, and lifecycle management of a diverse portfolio of 20+ manufacturing software applications. This role drives digital transformation across manufacturing operations by aligning technology with business objectives, ensuring operational excellence, and enabling scalable, secure, and compliant systems. The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on program execution, while fostering collaboration across IT, OT, and business stakeholders.
What you’ll be doing.
- Develop and execute the long-term strategy for the digital manufacturing applications portfolio, aligning with business and operational objectives
- Evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and continuous improvement across manufacturing systems
- Optimize the application landscape by consolidating or decommissioning redundant tools to improve cost efficiency and scalability
- Manage vendor relationships, including contract renewals and negotiations to ensure optimal performance and value
- Define program objectives, project scope, timelines, and budgets for digital manufacturing initiatives
- Lead cross-functional teams, proactively managing risks, dependencies, and change management efforts
- Provide consistent project updates to stakeholders and conduct post-implementation reviews to capture learnings
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product owners and support personnel, setting clear goals and KPIs
- Oversee application lifecycle management, ensuring high availability, cybersecurity, and compliance with regulatory requirements
- Drive incident and problem management practices, ensuring timely resolution and continuous improvement of systems
What you’ll need to be successful.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred
- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing IT/OT systems, with leadership responsibility preferred
- Deep expertise with manufacturing applications such as HMI/SCADA, data historians, packaging intelligence, SPC/MPC, reliability, and EHS systems
- Proven ability to define program objectives and manage end-to-end project execution, including scope, budgets, and timelines
- Strong experience leading cross-functional teams and driving change management in complex environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including delivering executive-level updates
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, systems integration, and regulatory compliance within manufacturing environments
About the team.
The Digital Manufacturing Applications team is a global, cross-functional group comprised of product owners, technical experts, and support personnel dedicated to enabling manufacturing excellence through technology. This role leads and develops a high-performing team while collaborating closely with IT, OT, Quality, Operations, and external partners to deliver scalable and impactful digital solutions.
About McCain.
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Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: $102,700.00 - $137,000.00 . CAD annually + Bonus Eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know**,* and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.*
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Job Family: Information Technology
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)