Vice President, Operations & Engineering

Overview:

This position will report directly to the President & CEO, and is accountable for translating customer commitments into safe, reliable, efficient, and profitable execution across BNSF Logistics' project cargo, rail-integrated logistics, warehousing, transload, freight management, trucking, and other complex logistics services.   This position will lead to the end-to-end delivery of customer solutions from commercial handoff through successful project completion.

This role serves as the organization's primary owner of execution performance and customer outcomes after commercial handoff, with accountability for continuous improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC)

The position works closely with Commercial and other enabling functions to ensure effective handoffs, disciplined project execution, proactive customer communication, rapid problem resolution, and continuous feedback that improves future solutions.

The Vice President of Operations and Engineering provides strategic and operational leadership for Design & Securement, Project Management, Field Operations, Warehousing and Transload Operations, Freight Management, Trucking Operations, Dimensional Railcar Operations, Safety & Quality, and Continuous Improvement, ensuring alignment across functions and accountability for operational performance, service delivery, safety, and profitability.

Key Responsibilities:

Safety & Quality, Project Management, Operations, Engineering Design & Securement, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Leadership, and Coaching & Capability Building.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics or related discipline required; an MBA and/or an advanced degree preferred.

- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across operations, project management, engineering, transportation, logistics, manufacturing or comparable complex execution environments.

- Demonstrated experience leading multi-functional teams responsible for complex customer or project execution.

- Strong understanding of project management, field operations, transportation and operational performance management.

- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, structured problem solving or comparable continuous-improvement methodologies strongly preferred.

- Experience leading technical and operational professionals across geographically distributed operations.

- Rail, project cargo, heavy-haul, industrial, engineering, warehousing, transload or complex multimodal logistics experience strongly preferred.

- Strong customer communication, executive communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

- A combination of relevant education and experience may be considered in lieu of specific qualifications.