Distinguished Engineer, Material Handling Systems

Position Purpose

Distinguished Engineers are recognized as experts in one or more domains within the organization and across the industry, serving as senior technical authorities with a strong track record of influencing, mentoring, and growing other technical leaders. They connect teams through collaboration and champion opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability, and technical excellence across the enterprise.

The Distinguished Engineer - Conveyor Controls serves as the highest-level technical authority for conveyor control system support across the organization. This role provides strategic technical leadership across the architecture, design, reliability, and lifecycle management of conveyor control systems, ensuring operational excellence, system availability, and safe, efficient material handling operations. The position leads advanced troubleshooting, reliability improvement initiatives, and maintenance support strategies to support long‑term platform stability.

In partnership with engineering, maintenance, operations, IT/OT teams, senior leaders, vendors, and partners, this role helps shape the go‑forward technology direction for conveyor control platforms by driving standardization, innovation, continuous improvement, and the adoption of new technologies across the enterprise.

• 30% Strategy & Planning:

• Works with senior leaders to shape the go-forward vision for the organization from a specific domain perspective

• Works with vendors and partners on the successful strategy, planning, and implementation of critical tooling and platforms

• Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps across the enterprise

• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise

• Drives thought leadership and innovation within the organization

• 30% Support & Enablement:

• Fields questions from product, project and support teams

• Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technologies with teams

• Monitors tools and leads conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams

• Learns, through reading, tutorials, relationships, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used in other organizations

• 25% Delivery & Execution:

• Teaches, mentors, grows, and advises other domain experts in the organization (including direct reports, if applicable)

• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met

• Works with vendors and partners on the successful planning and implementation of critical tooling and platforms

• Understands and articulates the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners

• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise

• 15% People:

• Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges

• Participates in and leads learning activities within the organization

• Connects teams facing similar challenges and problems to encourage consistency

• Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts

• Capable of jumping into a variety of teams to resolve issues

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports (if applicable)

• Conducts annual and mid‑year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback (if applicable)

• Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent (applicable if incumbent has direct reports)

• This role typically reports to Sr. Director or Vice President and may have a small number of non‑manager direct reports with VP approval.

• Typically requires overnight travel up to 50% of the time.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• 8‑10 years of relevant work experience
• Professionally recognized by peers…