VP Engineering

Are you looking for more?
 

At Mohawk Industries, we’re committed to more – more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our team.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what’s important to you. Whether you want to lead more, innovate more, learn more or create more, you can find your more with Mohawk.

What we need:

The VP Engineering is a senior leadership position responsible for the strategic direction, operational excellence, and innovation across the engineering function. This role ensures alignment with company goals through technical leadership, talent development, and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'll do: 

• Develops and leads the engineering strategy in alignment with corporate goals, innovation targets, and market needs.
• Oversees engineering operations across all product lines or business areas, ensuring timely delivery, quality, and performance.
• Builds, mentors, and retains a high-performing engineering leadership team and technical talent pipeline.
• Collaborates with product management, manufacturing, quality, and R&D to align engineering solutions with business priorities.
• Establishes and enforces best practices in design, development, documentation, and release processes.
• Leads the development of technical roadmaps and investment strategies for core platforms and product evolution.
• Identifies and implements technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve productivity, quality, and innovation.
• Ensures that engineering teams operate within compliance, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Develops and manages engineering budgets, resource allocation, and capital planning.
• Partners with executive leadership to drive operational improvements, cost optimization, and competitive differentiation.
• Serves as a key representative of the engineering function in customer, investor, and partner engagements.
• Champions a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Collaborates with the executive team to develop and implement strategic plans that align with the company's vision and goals.
• Provides visionary leadership to drive growth and innovation.
• Identifies and pursue new business opportunities, partnerships, and market expansions.
• Leads initiatives to enhance the company's market presence and competitiveness.
• Provides strong leadership to department heads and teams.
• Fosters a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Identifies and assess risks to the company's success.
• Implements effective risk management strategies.
• Drives a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Leads initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Builds and maintain relationships with key customers, partners, and stakeholders.
• Ensures high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 15+ years relevant experience or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 10+ years of management experience.

What you're good at:

• Clear expertise as a strategic leader.
• Leads through other leaders by setting strategy and direction, while allowing other leaders to set tactical operations.
• Requires the ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance from, others in sensitive situations while preserving relationships.
• Focused on and responsible for the function’s productivity and collective impact.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Able to multitask, prioritize, delegate, and manage time effectively.
• High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.
• Proficient using Microsoft Suite of products.
• High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.