ABOUT US
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.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Key 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.
What we’re looking for
- 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 accountability.
- Strong knowledge of IT service management disciplines (Incident, Problem, Change) with a bias toward action and resolution.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure, end user computing, networking, and cybersecurity fundamentals.
- Experience with operational technology (OT), digital manufacturing systems, or engineering systems strongly preferred.
- Ability to make decisions with imperfect information and drive teams through competing priorities.
- Executive level communication skills with the confidence to challenge, influence, and lead without ambiguity.
- Strong sense of accountability, urgency, and ownership in fast paced operational environments.
- Ability to travel to other PHINIA sites up to 30% of the time
WHAT WE OFFER
We provide compensation and benefits programs intended to attract, motivate, reward, and retain an incredibly talented, globally diverse workforce at all levels within our organization. Our compensation programs are informed by market data and business needs, and we are committed to providing equitable and competitive compensation. We are committed to providing our team with quality and competitive benefit programs, including health and well-being resources, family-centric policies, and an agile workplace program, where not precluded by collective bargaining agreements or national statutory plans. Plans are benchmarked for competitiveness and value.
We provide formal development opportunities at all levels and stages of employee careers. These opportunities are delivered in a variety of formats to make our portfolio of solutions agile, sustainable, and scalable to support our employees in developing the skills needed to succeed.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
SAFETY
You will consistently hear us say Safety First! We are committed to continually improving our strong safety performance supporting the health and wellness of our employees!
We also believe employee health and safety is everyone’s responsibility. We encourage safety learning and collaboration to help employees understand and follow applicable safety policies, standards, and procedures and identify opportunities to minimize or eliminate risk. Work is expected to be conducted in a manner that stresses the importance of preventing incidents and illnesses, including attending all required safety meetings and trainings. It is expected that all incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions are immediately reported to the direct manager, Human Resources, or Safety Representative.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
PHINIA is an equal employment opportunity employer such that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
VISA SPONSORSHIP
PHINIA does provide sponsorship for employment visa status based on business need. However, for this role, applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis, in the country where the position is currently based.
NO UNAUTHORIZED REFERRALS FROM RECRUITERS & VENDORS
Please note that PHINIA does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or offers from third party recruiters or staffing agencies associated with any published or unpublished employment opportunities. Any unsolicited information sent to PHINIA will be considered as unencumbered and free from any fee or charge whatsoever. Only members of our Human Resources Team have the authority to engage or authorize recruiting services, which must be agreed upon before the unsolicited resume or offer is received.
GLOBAL TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY STATEMENT
Before submitting your application you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the terms.
Career Scam Disclaimer:
PHINIA makes no representations or guarantees regarding employment opportunities listed on any third-party website. To protect against career scams, job applicants should take the necessary precautions when interviewing for and accepting employment positions allegedly offered by PHINIA. Applicants should never provide their national ID numbers, birth dates, credit card numbers, bank account information or other private information when communicating with prospective employers or responding to employment opportunities online. Job applicants are invited to contact PHINIA through PHINIA’s website to verify the authenticity of any employment opportunities.
Advancing sustainability today, powering a cleaner tomorrow. Join us on this shared journey to a brighter tomorrow. For more information about PHINIA, please visit www.phinia.com .
