Leads McCain’s North American engineering organization across capital projects, reliability, environmental systems, resource efficiency, utilities, and maintenance. Oversees 45–50 engineering staff, a portfolio of 400+ projects, and $200M–$600M CAD in annual capital spending. Sets engineering strategy, manages budgets, drives safety and regulatory compliance, improves equipment reliability and OEE, advances sustainability initiatives, and develops engineering talent across manufacturing and agricultural facilities.

Lead global digital manufacturing transformation by defining roadmap, architecting analytics and AI solutions, integrating MES/SCADA/PLCs with cloud, developing predictive maintenance and anomaly-detection models, driving OEE and quality improvements, enforcing data governance, and scaling Industry 4.0 capabilities across sites.