Senior Product Owner – Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES/MOM)

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PHINIA is a diversified industrial supplier and global leader in the development of fuel systems, electrical systems, and aftermarket solutions, with a strong portfolio of trusted brands that includes DELPHI®, DELCO REMY®, and HARTRIDGE™. With over 100 years of manufacturing expertise and industry relationships, PHINIA has approximately 12,500 talented employees and over 40 locations in 20 countries and is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. Read More

JOB PURPOSE

The Senior Product Owner is accountable for the product vision, capability roadmap and delivery backlog for Manufacturing Execution and Manufacturing Operations Management (MES/MOM) across the company's global manufacturing network.
The role also owns the machine qualification framework that governs how production equipment is connected, validated and formally released as a trusted source of production, quality and traceability data.
Working at the boundary between Information Technology, Operations Technology, Global Manufacturing Engineering and plant operations, the role ensures that manufacturing technology investments are prioritized against business value, deployed to a common standard, and accepted by the business with documented evidence.
PAY RANGE

204.000,00 - 255.000,00 - 306.000,00 RON Annual
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities:

Product vision, roadmap and backlog

- Define and maintain the global MES/MOM product vision and multi-year capability roadmap, aligned to manufacturing strategy and enterprise architecture standards.

- Own and prioritize the global MES/MOM product backlog, balancing plant requirements, global standards, technical debt and modernization commitments.

- Translate business objectives into epics and user stories with clear, measurable acceptance criteria; lead backlog refinement, sprint reviews and release planning.

- Maintain the global core model for MES functionality and govern approved local deviations.

- Define and report product performance indicators, including adoption, data completeness, quality and performance data integrity, traceability coverage and time to qualify equipment.

Business capability ownership:

- Act as business process owner for the MES/MOM capability set
Production operations

- Production execution and monitoring, work order management and routing, scheduling and sequencing, shift handover, downtime and volume tracking.
Quality operations

- In-process quality control, statistical process control, previous-process checks and quality gates, non-conformance management, first-time-quality and first-time-pass-rate measurement.
Traceability and compliance

- Product genealogy and serialization, component traceability with long-term retention, as-built versus as-designed records, audit trails and compliance documentation.
Performance management

- Overall equipment effectiveness, lost-time analysis, key performance indicator aggregation, real-time monitoring, throughput and cycle-time analysis.
Test and manufacturing data

- Test bench integration, test parameter configuration, results capture and analysis, pass/fail routing, data archival and certificate generation.

Machine qualification and IT/OT integration:

- Own the end-to-end equipment onboarding and qualification framework, covering connectivity assessment, tag and signal mapping to the standard data model, interface testing and formal release to production.

- Define qualification checklists and acceptance tests for PLC-connected equipment, covering cycle data, part and serial traceability, alarms, machine states and quality results.

- Work with integration and IT/OT engineers on connectivity patterns such as OPC UA, MQTT, industrial gateways and edge services, and contribute to the rationalisation of gateway technologies.

- Maintain and publish equipment qualification status across the plant network, escalating risks in a timely manner.

- Partner with Quality to ensure qualified equipment meets traceability, IATF 16949 and customer-specific requirements.

Delivery and release governance:

- Define acceptance criteria and assemble the evidence package required for each release, secured through formal sign-off by Operations, Quality, OT and IT.

- Support parallel-run and reconciliation activities for production-critical outputs ahead of cutover and define go/no-go criteria and rollback conditions.

- Collaborate with solution architects and engineering teams to ensure requirements are correctly translated into technical designs.

- Contribute to business case development, investment planning and benefit tracking.

Stakeholder, supplier and organizational engagement:

- Act as the primary point of contact between plant operations, manufacturing engineering, quality, OT security and IT for MES/MOM scope.

- Conduct structured discovery on the shop floor to understand process, equipment and operator needs before defining requirements.

- Communicate roadmap, trade-offs, status and risks to plant and global leadership.

- Manage the delivery backlog with regional implementation partners and the application management services provider, including quality gates and acceptance.

- Contribute to supplier evaluation, tender activity and technology assessments.

- Coach and mentor analysts and junior product team members and promote product management best practice across manufacturing technology teams.

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

PHINIA is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

VISA SPONSORSHIP

For this role, applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country where the position is based. Only in certain circumstances, based on business need, does PHINIA provide sponsorship for employment visa status.
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