Digital Program Engineering Manager

Life tastes better with ice cream

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. 
 

We create iconic ice cream brands that are part of everyday life, bringing moments of joy to millions of people around the world. Everybody loves ice cream. And as the world’s biggest pure‑play ice cream company, we have the scale and ambition to make a real difference. 

What truly sets us apart is how we work. 

We move fast and keep things simple. We turn ideas into action, trust people to take ownership, and work as one team to win together with integrity. Our culture is high‑performance, collaborative and focused on getting things done. 

We’re curious and ready for what’s next. We embrace digital, use data to make better decisions, and keep learning, including how AI can help us work smarter and serve consumers better. 

Lead the development, deployment, and scaling of digital manufacturing capabilities across the North American ice cream factory network. This role connects factory priorities, manufacturing data, AI, predictive maintenance, analytics, and IT/OT capabilities to deliver secure, scalable solutions that improve reliability, OLE/OEE, waste, yield, throughput, energy use, and decision-making. The manager will translate successful pilot solutions into repeatable standards and drive adoption across sites.

• Own the digital roadmap: Build and govern a prioritized North American roadmap aligned with factory losses, business needs, CapEx plans, and regional/global standards.
• Turn data into action: Improve data acquisition, quality, structure, and access; deploy trusted dashboards and descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
• Scale AI and predictive maintenance: Develop value-led use cases using equipment, condition-monitoring, historian, SCADA, and maintenance data to reduce failures and improve asset performance.
• Enable connected manufacturing: Partner with automation, controls, IT, OT, cybersecurity, engineering, and operations to integrate sensors, PLC/HMI/SCADA, historians, MES/MOM, and enterprise data platforms.
• Deliver digital solutions: Lead requirements, design, testing, user acceptance, deployment, documentation, support, and continuous improvement for manufacturing applications.
• Drive measurable performance: Use digital insights to improve downtime, waste, yield, throughput, reliability, capacity, quality, and energy performance.
• Ensure governance and security: Apply approved architecture, cybersecurity, data privacy, responsible AI, access-control, and risk-review requirements; prevent unauthorized data or AI exposure.
• Build capability and adoption: Train and coach operators, technicians, engineers, supervisors, and leaders; establish key-user models, playbooks, and sustainable support routines.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing systems, computer science, data science, automation, IT, or a related technical 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, machine learning, predictive maintenance, advanced analytics, simulation, or modeling in manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional programs, influence without direct authority, manage change, and deliver measurable results across multiple sites

Ideal Candidate: A practical, business-minded digital manufacturing leader who can translate complex technology into clear operational value, establish common standards, and embed new digital ways of working on the factory floor.

WHAT YOU'LL GET:

Alongside meaningful work and strong development, we offer a reward package that typically includes

• Market-competitive pay and performance related rewards
• Flexible ways of working
• Support for health, wellbeing and life outside of work
• Time off to rest and recharge
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

Pay: The pay range for this position is $103,000 to $154,400. The Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC) takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits: TMICC employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverage for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Specific benefits vary by location

Why join us?

This is a place for people who are passionate about ice cream and are growth obsessed - both for the business and for themselves. People who act like an owner and drive our business end-to-end. People who are driven by success to deliver more than we ever thought we could! 

You’ll thrive here if you value an inclusive culture, with low ego and hierarchy - and if you’re excited to continuously learn and challenge how we work, using digital, data, and new thinking to push us forward.

• Roles with real accountability and visible impact

• Free to move fast, experiment and challenge how things are done

• Continuous learning and development as the business grows

• Reward linked to performance and contribution.

Your career here is shaped by what you deliver, as you work across functions and markets and grow with the business.

Ready to build the future of Ice Cream?

If this sounds like the place where you'd thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Apply online and share your CV. We'll review your application and be in touch with the next steps. 

If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected]. Please note: This email is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry about positions or application statuses. The Protected Veterans or Individuals with Disabilities AAP narratives are available for inspection by any employee or applicant for employment Monday through Friday during normal business hours at establishment.

Additional information

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.   
Disclaimer 
Equal Opportunity Employer: The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.