IT Manager in Gillingham

The IT Manager is the primary IT leader for an assigned PHINIA manufacturing or engineering site. This role owns the end‑to‑end performance, resilience, and evolution of site IT to ensure technology directly enables operational excellence and business outcomes. The IT Manager sets direction, makes prioritization decisions, triages competing demands, and drives execution across all site IT domains. Acting as the accountable owner between the site and PHINIA’s global IT organization, this role ensures global standards are applied with local rigor, risks are actively managed, and IT investments deliver measurable value to the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the single accountable IT leader for the assigned PHINIA sites, with full ownership of site IT execution, performance, and risk.
• Define, prioritize, and govern all site IT work, balancing operational stability, risk, cost, and transformation initiatives.
• Actively triage site IT needs, determine what moves forward, what is deferred, and how resources are deployed.
• Represent IT as the accountable owner of technology execution, risk, and performance within site leadership forums.
• Convert site business objectives into prioritized IT execution plans aligned with PHINIA enterprise strategy.
• Own site level IT planning, ensuring technology decisions are intentional, standardized, and value driven.
• Identify opportunities to modernize shopfloor IT, user experience, and digital capabilities, and drive their implementation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies with a pragmatic lens and decide when pilots or adoption deliver tangible operational benefit.
• Own day‑to‑day IT operational performance, ensuring stability, availability, and rapid recovery across all site systems.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management at the site, including root‑cause ownership and corrective action execution.
• Establish and drive accountability against site IT KPIs, service metrics, and risk indicators.
• Own performance outcomes for service providers and on‑site IT resources, holding them accountable to contractual and operational expectations.
• Ensure the right capabilities are in place to support production‑critical and engineering environments.
• Own cyber resiliency and technology lifecycle management for all site IT assets, including networks, devices, infrastructure, and OT connectivity.
• Enforce PHINIA security standards locally and drive remediation of vulnerabilities and technical debt.
• Act as the site authority for technology risk decisions and mitigation actions.
• Own site IT financial inputs, including prioritization, spend justification, PR/PO approvals, and invoice governance.
• Provide clear visibility into site IT investments, risks, and returns.
• Drive execution of global IT initiatives at the site, ensuring readiness, adoption, and sustained outcomes.
• Establish a culture of ownership, urgency, transparency, and continuous improvement across all site IT activities.
• Ensure IT is viewed as a reliable, outcome‑driven contributor to site success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 7 – 10+ years of IT leadership experience supporting manufacturing or engineering environments.
• Proven experience owning IT outcomes end to end, including prioritization, execution, and operational accountability.
• Strong knowledge of IT service management disciplines (Incident, Problem, Change) with a bias toward action and resolution.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure, end‑user computing, networking, and cybersecurity fundamentals.
• Experience with operational technology (OT), digital manufacturing systems, or engineering systems strongly preferred.
• Ability to make decisions with imperfect information and drive teams through competing priorities.
• Executive‑level communication skills with the confidence to challenge, influence, and lead without ambiguity.
• Strong sense of accountability, urgency, and ownership in fast‑paced operational environments.
• Ability to travel to other PHINIA sites up to 30% of the time.

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.

Our Values

• 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 – We 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.

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.