Digital Program Engineering Manager
About The Position
Lead the development, deployment, and scaling of digital manufacturing capabilities across the North American ice cream factory network. The role connects factory priorities, manufacturing data, AI, predictive maintenance, analytics, and IT/OT capabilities to deliver secure, scalable solutions that improve reliability, OLE/OEE, waste, yield, throughput, energy use, and decision-making. The manager translates successful pilot solutions into repeatable standards and drives adoption across sites. The position works across factory operations, automation, controls, IT, OT, cybersecurity, and engineering. It includes building a digital roadmap, improving manufacturing data and analytics, scaling AI and predictive-maintenance use cases, and leading digital solutions from requirements through deployment and ongoing improvement. The manager also establishes governance and security practices and builds capability among factory teams through training, coaching, and sustainable support routines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing systems, computer science, data science, automation, IT, or a related technical field.
- Manufacturing experience in digital transformation, engineering, industrial analytics, automation, IT/OT, or connected-factory environments.
- Strong knowledge of OLE/OEE, downtime, waste, yield, throughput, reliability, maintenance, and capacity-loss analysis.
- Hands-on experience with manufacturing data, databases or data warehousing, dashboards, visualization, and analytics tools.
- Working knowledge of SCADA, historians, MES/MOM, PLC/HMI environments, sensors, industrial networks, and OT connectivity.
- Familiarity with AI, machine learning, predictive maintenance, advanced analytics, simulation, or modeling in manufacturing.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional programs, influence without direct authority, manage change, and deliver measurable results across multiple sites.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without current or future employer sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- An advanced degree in a relevant technical field.
- Ability to translate complex technology into clear operational value, establish common standards, and embed new digital ways of working on the factory floor.
Responsibilities
- Build and govern a prioritized North American digital roadmap aligned with factory losses, business needs, CapEx plans, and regional and global standards.
- Improve manufacturing data acquisition, quality, structure, and access; deploy trusted dashboards and descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
- Develop value-led AI and predictive-maintenance use cases using equipment, condition-monitoring, historian, SCADA, and maintenance data to reduce failures and improve asset performance.
- Partner with automation, controls, IT, OT, cybersecurity, engineering, and operations to integrate sensors, PLC/HMI/SCADA, historians, MES/MOM, and enterprise data platforms.
- Lead requirements, design, testing, user acceptance, deployment, documentation, support, and continuous improvement for manufacturing applications.
- Use digital insights to improve downtime, waste, yield, throughput, reliability, capacity, quality, and energy performance.
- Apply approved architecture, cybersecurity, data privacy, responsible AI, access-control, and risk-review requirements; prevent unauthorized data or AI exposure.
- Train and coach operators, technicians, engineers, supervisors, and leaders; establish key-user models, playbooks, and sustainable support routines.
- Translate successful pilot solutions into repeatable standards and drive adoption across sites.
Benefits
- Market-competitive pay and performance-related rewards; the position is bonus eligible and long-term incentive eligible.
- Flexible ways of working.
- Support for health, wellbeing, and life outside work.
- Time off, including paid vacation and holidays, to rest and recharge.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- Health insurance, including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement savings benefits.
- Life insurance and disability benefits.
- Parental leave and sick leave.
- Access to voluntary benefits. Specific benefits vary by location.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
