IT Manager

About the role

PHINIA: Advancing sustainability today, powering a cleaner tomorrow. PHINIA is an independent, market-leading, premium solutions and components provider with over 100 years of manufacturing expertise and industry relationships, with a strong brand portfolio that includes DELPHI®, DELCO REMY® and HARTRIDGE™. With over 12,500 employees across 43 locations in 20 countries, PHINIA is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. At PHINIA, we Provide fuel systems, electrical systems, and aftermarket products and solutions of the highest quality - developed and manufactured responsibly - that are designed to enhance efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles, industrial machinery, and other applications. In doing so, we contribute to a cleaner tomorrow, treat our people and surrounding communities with respect, and hold ourselves accountable to robust ethical standards. Our Culture PHINIA promotes and cultivates an inclusive culture and diverse perspectives, strives to maintain its reputation for excellence, thrives on the power of collaboration, and fosters the development of our talented employees. We believe in making a positive impact through our business and actions, and we take our collective responsibility seriously. Career Opportunities We believe in building a brighter tomorrow for our employees as well as our customers and encourage you to learn about our long history, strong culture, new technologies, and future vision. We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities. Join us on this shared journey toward a brighter tomorrow. JOB PURPOSE The IT Manager is the primary IT leader for an assigned PHINIA manufacturing or engineering sites. This role owns the end to end performance, resilience, and evolution of site IT to ensure technology directly enables operational excellence and business outcomes. The IT Manager sets direction, makes prioritization decisions, triages competing demands, and drives execution across all site IT domains. Acting as the accountable owner between the site and PHINIA's global IT organization, this role ensures global standards are applied with local rigor, risks are actively managed, and IT investments deliver measurable value to the business.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single accountable IT leader for the assigned PHINIA sites, with full ownership of site IT execution, performance, and risk.
• Define, prioritize, and govern all site IT work, balancing operational stability, risk, cost, and transformation initiatives.
• Actively triage site IT needs, determine what moves forward, what is deferred, and how resources are deployed.
• Represent IT as the accountable owner of technology execution, risk, and performance within site leadership forums.
• Convert site business objectives into prioritized IT execution plans aligned with PHINIA enterprise strategy.
• Own site level IT planning, ensuring technology decisions are intentional, standardized, and value driven.
• Identify opportunities to modernize shopfloor IT, user experience, and digital capabilities, and drive their implementation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies with a pragmatic lens and decide when pilots or adoption deliver tangible operational benefit.
• Own day to day IT operational performance, ensuring stability, availability, and rapid recovery across all site systems.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management at the site, including root cause ownership and corrective action execution.
• Establish and drive accountability against site IT KPIs, service metrics, and risk indicators.
• Own performance outcomes for service providers and on site IT resources, holding them accountable to contractual and operational expectations.
• Ensure the right capabilities are in place to support production critical and engineering environments.
• Own cyber resiliency and technology lifecycle management for all site IT assets, including networks, devices, infrastructure, and OT connectivity.
• Enforce PHINIA security standards locally and drive remediation of vulnerabilities and technical debt.
• Act as the site authority for technology risk decisions and mitigation actions.
• Own site IT financial inputs, including prioritization, spend justification, PR/PO approvals, and invoice governance.
• Provide clear visibility into site IT investments, risks, and returns.
• Drive execution of global IT initiatives at the site, ensuring readiness, adoption, and sustained outcomes.
• Establish a culture of ownership, urgency, transparency, and continuous improvement across all site IT activities.
• Ensure IT is viewed as a reliable, outcome driven contributor to site success.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 7 - 10+ years of IT leadership experience supporting manufacturing or engineering environments.
• Proven experience owning IT outcomes end to end, including prioritization, execution, and operational acco

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