Regional Digitalization & Automation Program Lead

BorgWarner; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The BorgWarner Regional Program Manager/Digitalization Lead will drive manufacturing digitalization enhancements across regional plants, coordinating with operations, automation, and IT to lift capabilities and scale proven digital solutions. You will oversee pilots, establish roadmaps, and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy.

Leverage your experience in MES, dashboards, and OT/IT integration to deliver decision-ready insights and governance, while traveling ~30% to support pilot

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years in manufacturing, automation, or industrial digitalization roles.
• Hands-on experience with manufacturing systems (MES), dashboards, analytics, and data-driven decision support.
• Strong working knowledge of automation systems including PLCs, SCADA, sensors, vision systems, and edge devices.
• Proven understanding of OT/IT integration, industrial networking, cybersecurity, and IT governance in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to translate shop-floor problems into scalable, compliant digital solutions.
• Experience supporting multi-site or regional manufacturing organizations strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support pilots and early-stage deployments across regional plants without assuming long-term execution ownership.
• Preserve and reinforce plant accountability while providing hands-on technical and application support as needed to ensure successful startup and stabilization.
• Lead and coordinate a regional network of digital and automation subject matter experts to provide aligned, timely support without overloading plant resources.
• Capture successful digital solutions and scale them through standardized playbooks, reusable architectures, and deployment patterns.
• Maintain and communicate a 30/60/90-day rolling regional digitalization execution roadmap, highlighting priorities, dependencies, and risks.
• Provide clear, decision-ready inputs and recommendations to regional leadership for escalation, prioritization, and resource alignment.
• Partner closely with plant leadership, manufacturing engineering, maintenance, IT, and corporate digital teams to translate operational needs into compliant, scalable solutions.
• Enable knowledge sharing and capability building across plants through best-practice exchanges, standards, and lessons learned.
• Execute digitalization enablement activities within priorities and direction established through regional digitalization governance

Skills

Digital Enablement

Systems Thinking

Change Management

Structured Problem Solving

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Executive Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Advanced degree

Tools

MES

Dashboards

Analytics

PLC/SCADA

Sensors/ Vision/ Edge devices

OT/IT integration

Job description

The BorgWarner Regional Program Manager/Digitalization Lead will drive manufacturing digitalization enhancements across regional plants, coordinating with operations, automation, and IT to lift capabilities and scale proven digital solutions. You will oversee pilots, establish roadmaps, and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy.

Leverage your experience in MES, dashboards, and OT/IT integration to deliver decision-ready insights and governance, while traveling ~30% to support pilot