Shopfloor Apps Solution Architect

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

PHINIA is seeking a Shopfloor Apps Solution Architect / Delivery Coordinator to own delivery outcomes across manufacturing IT projects spanning multiple global plants. This role evaluates technical proposals, coordinates cross-functional delivery, and ensures shopfloor solutions meet architecture standards and operational requirements. The coordinator partners with a Bucharest based architecture lead for technical direction and serves as the in timezone point of contact for plant stakeholders, vendor teams, and the India based engineering team. This is not a hands on coding role — it requires someone who has coded enough to detect when engineers or vendors are oversimplifying or padding, and who can make architectural decisions that hold up on the plant floor.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery outcomes for manufacturing IT projects across multiple PHINIA plants, coordinating engineering resources, vendor teams, and plant stakeholders to meet scope, timeline, and quality commitments.

• Evaluate technical proposals, solution designs, and effort estimates from engineers and vendors; identify gaps, challenge assumptions, and ensure alignment with PHINIA’s architecture standards and shopfloor realities.

• Serve as the primary in‑timezone interface between plant ME/OpEx teams and the delivery team — triaging incoming requests, setting priorities, and managing stakeholder expectations.

• Coordinate cross‑functional delivery across MES, ERP (SAP), SCADA/PLC, historians, and IoT platform integrations, ensuring end‑to‑end solution coherence across the integration landscape.

• Manage vendor and system integrator engagements — reviewing deliverables, enforcing milestone gates, evaluating technical quality (not just timelines), and course‑correcting when needed.

• Structure delivery under ambiguity: scope manufacturing IT projects with incomplete requirements, run discovery sprints, and keep delivery on track when plant teams cannot fully articulate their data or process needs.

• Provide architecture oversight for shopfloor applications, dashboards, machine‑data connectors, and operator interfaces in collaboration with the Bucharest‑based architecture lead.

• Drive SQL‑based data mining across production databases to validate integration outputs, troubleshoot data quality issues, and support plant stakeholder reporting needs.

• Ensure all shopfloor solutions follow PHINIA’s cybersecurity, Zero‑Trust OT, data integrity, and resilience standards, including IEC 62443‑aligned principles.

• Produce and maintain technical documentation including architecture overviews, integration specifications, data‑flow diagrams, and delivery runbooks for global implementation teams.

• Contribute to digital manufacturing initiatives including IIoT enablement, predictive analytics, machine connectivity, AI/vision systems, and smart‑factory programs.

• Support knowledge transfer and onboarding of new team members; build documentation and processes that reduce single‑person dependencies.

• Responsible for coordinating and ensuring delivery of local team results.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Manufacturing Systems, or a related technical field

• 8–12 years of experience in manufacturing IT, MES, or shopfloor application development/integration, with at least 3 years coordinating multi‑plant or multi‑workstream delivery

• Strong understanding of the shopfloor integration landscape: MES platforms (Rockwell, Siemens, Ignition, or equivalent), ERP (SAP), SCADA/PLC, historians, and industrial communication protocols (OPC‑UA, MQTT, SOAP, REST, AMQP)

• SQL fluency (joins, window functions, query optimization) for data mining against production databases; comfort reading and debugging JSON, XML, and SOAP payloads

• Big data awareness: familiarity with time‑series databases, data lake concepts, and streaming ingestion patterns

• Basic algorithm understanding (sorting, searching, complexity analysis) sufficient to evaluate engineering proposals

• Demonstrated ability to challenge technical teams and vendors constructively — detecting over‑engineering, underestimated effort, or architectural shortcuts

• Experience managing vendor/system integrator engagements with technical quality oversight, not just timeline/budget tracking

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes: traceability, quality checks, OEE, operator workflows, and machine data capture

• Experience with IT/OT cybersecurity principles, network segmentation, and secured industrial architectures

• Ability to work effectively across time zones with geographically distributed teams

• Proactive, structured, and able to manage multiple global initiatives with competing priorities

• MES platform certifications (Rockwell, Siemens, Ignition, etc.) — preferred

• Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ‑900, AZ‑204, or AZ‑305) — preferred

• IT/OT security certifications (ISA/IEC 62443 awareness) — preferred

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

• Product Leadership - Innovation that brings value to our customers 

• Humility - Seeking out diverse perspectives and working collaboratively 

• Inclusivity - Recognizing our differences makes us stronger; we are bold and intentional 

• Net-Zero - Committed to energy efficiency, waste reduction and beneficial reuse 

• Integrity - Taking responsibility for our decisions and doing what is right 

• Accountability - Taking ownership of our actions and driving results

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.

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