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Automation Integration Engineering Program Manager-2

CoesiaCovington, KYApril 12th, 2026
About the Company About the Company R.A Jones, headquartered in Covington, KY, 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 has operating units in 36 countries, a turnover of 2,015 million euros in 2022 and over 8,000 employees. About the Role About the Role The Systems Integration Program Manager will apply your knowledge of integrated systems to support the COESIA CMS divisional objectives for cross-organizational collaborative projects. You will manage customer orders, from order acknowledgment through final customer commissioning and payment. You will direct multi-organizational team resources in achieving the most cost-effective solution and delivery of orders within a teamdeveloped scope and schedule. In this role you are also responsible for: Managing systems requirements from internal and external customers Driving program schedules from multiple sources, and managing the program’s profitability Lead and coordinate design/implementation efforts while coordinating across multiple teams to develop optimal solutions Expected to make 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 Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. Providing 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. Develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in, and get the job done. What You Need to Be Successful 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. Technical knowledge of packaging equipment/capital equipment Experience reporting KPI's to leadership driving strategic business unit development Must be willing to travel to customer and vendor sites on an occasional basis. Approximately 30% – 40% Our Offer Our Offer Coesia North America offers a competitive benefit package which includes, among other things: Multiple health insurance plan options Company paid life insurance. 401k with up to 6% company match Paid parental leave. Coesia is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity and inclusion Job Reference: CGS11868