R.A. Jones Systems Integration Program Manager

About the Company

R.A Jones, headquartered in Covington, KY with another location in Davenport, Iowa, is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of primary and secondary packaging machinery for the beverage, chemicals, food, pharma & healthcare, and industrial goods industries. R.A Jones offers an extensive portfolio of solutions for applications in aerosol filling, cartoning and box filling, chub packing, cup filling, pouching and modified atmosphere packaging. R.A Jones is part of Coesia, a group of innovation-based industrial and packaging solutions companies operating globally, headquartered in Bologna, Italy.

Coesia, a group of innovation-based industrial and packaging solutions companies operating globally, headquartered in Bologna, Italy, and fully owned by Isabella Seràgnoli. Coesia's companies are leaders in automation solutions for multiple industries, ranging from automated processing and packaging machinery, testing and vision systems, to digital printing technologies, factory flow solutions and precision gears. Our customers include leading players in Consumer Goods, Healthcare & Pharma, Tobacco, Ceramic Tiles, Luxury Goods, Aerospace, Racing & Automotive, Electronics. Coesia has 141 operating units in 35 countries, a turnover of about 1.9 billion euros and over 8,000 employees. In the United States, Coesia employs over 900 people.

About the Role

We are seeking highly professional leadership for our Integration Program Manager role in support of R.A Jones customers. This individual will manage customer orders from order acknowledgment through final customer commissioning and payment. Also, this position is charged with directing multi-organizational team resources in achieving the most cost-effective solution and delivery of orders within a team-developed scope and schedule.

In this role you are responsible for:

• Managing systems requirements from internal and external customers, driving program schedules from multiple sources, and managing the program’s profitability.
• Lead and coordinating design/implementation efforts while coordinating across multiple teams to develop optimal solutions.
• Making appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-deployment and communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal/external cross-functional and remote project teams.
• Strong program management background, will have demonstrated experience leading large projects, and will have a well-rounded technical background in current technologies
• Anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management, anticipating and making tradeoffs, and balancing the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Provide maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
• Must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities.
• Developing and driving high-level strategic initiatives but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in, and get the job done.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor’s degree required (or a combination of relevant experience and education).
• 5 years of technical product or program management experience.
• 7 years of working directly with engineering team experience.
• Understanding and development of floor plan and facility flow patterns.
• Must be able to develop customer floor plans and understand process capabilities with material flow.
• Strong interpersonal skills; excellent written and oral communication skills; able to interact with all levels of employees, management, and external customers.
• Able to work in an office and manufacturing environment at Jones and customer facilities.
• General business (finance, operations, engineering) reporting.
• SAP knowledge a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business (or a combination of relevant experience).
• 7 years of technical product or program management experience.
• 10 years of working directly with engineering team experience.
• Technical knowledge of packaging equipment/capital equipment.
• Experience reporting KPI's to leadership driving strategic business unit development.

Working Conditions

• Safety glasses with side shields and steel toe safety shoes are required while in shop.
• Some exposure to dust, dirt, and noise.

Physical Requirements

• Must be willing to travel to customer and vendor sites on an occasional basis. Approximately 30% – 40%.

Our Offer

Coesia North America offers a competitive benefit package which includes, among other things:

• 401K offering 6% company match with no vesting period.
• Flexible remote work offering.
• 8-weeks paid parental leave.
• Multiple health benefit & insurance options.
• PTO, sick time, and 12 observed calendar holidays.
• Company paid short-term disability (80% wager placement) & long-term disability.
• HSA company contribution for individual & employer family coverage.

Coesia is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity and inclusion.