Digital Manufacturing Program Manager

Magnum Ice Cream Co.; Covington, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-competitive pay

Flexible ways of working

Health and wellbeing benefits

Paid time off

Learning and development

Job summary

Magnum Ice Cream Company is seeking a Digital Program Engineering Manager to lead the development, deployment and scaling of digital manufacturing across the North American ice cream factory network. You will translate pilots into standards, drive adoption, and partner across automation, IT/OT, and operations.

You will own the digital roadmap, improve data quality and access, deploy dashboards and analytics, and develop value-led AI use cases to reduce downtime and waste while increasing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing systems, computer science, data science, automation, IT, or related field.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• 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, ML, predictive maintenance, advanced analytics, simulation, or modeling in manufacturing.
• Ability to lead cross-functional programs, influence without authority, manage change, and deliver results across sites.

Responsibilities

• Own the digital roadmap: build and govern a prioritized North American roadmap aligned with factory losses, business needs, CapEx plans, and standards.
• Turn data into action: improve data acquisition, quality and access; deploy dashboards and analytics.
• Scale AI and predictive maintenance: develop use cases using equipment, condition-monitoring, historian, SCADA and maintenance data.
• Enable connected manufacturing: collaborate with automation, controls, IT/OT, cybersecurity, engineering and operations to integrate systems and data platforms.
• Deliver digital solutions: lead requirements, design, testing, deployment, documentation and ongoing improvement for manufacturing apps.
• Drive measurable performance: use digital insights to improve downtime, waste, yield, throughput, reliability and energy performance.
• Governance and security: enforce architecture, cybersecurity, data privacy, access controls and risk-review.
• Build capability and adoption: train operators and engineers; establish playbooks and sustainable support routines.

Skills

Digital transformation

Industrial analytics

Data science

Dashboards & analytics

AI / ML familiarity

Predictive maintenance

Cross-functional leadership

Change management

OT/IT collaboration

Python / SQL / data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering / manufacturing systems / computer science / data science / automation / IT

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

SCADA

Historians

MES/MOM

PLC/HMI

Industrial networks & OT connectivity

Job description

Magnum Ice Cream Company is seeking a Digital Program Engineering Manager to lead the development, deployment and scaling of digital manufacturing across the North American ice cream factory network. You will translate pilots into standards, drive adoption, and partner across automation, IT/OT, and operations.

You will own the digital roadmap, improve data quality and access, deploy dashboards and analytics, and develop value-led AI use cases to reduce downtime and waste while increasing