Position Title:  Spare Parts Program Manager

Spare Parts Program Manager – Aurora, CO

Be a part of a revolutionary change! 

At Philip Morris International (PMI), we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. 

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, if you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Our success depends on people who are committed to our purpose and have an appetite for progress.  

Our Spare Parts Program Manager is responsible for ensuring optimal availability, reliability, and lifecycle management of spare parts across assigned technologies. This role leads the development and deployment of spare parts strategies, standards, criticality analyses, and inventory optimization initiatives to support loss elimination, MTBF improvement, and overall performance enhancement. Serving as the technical lead for spare parts engineering within the Center of Excellence (CoE), the role partners closely with Maintenance, Engineering, and Operations to deliver sustainable, data-driven results.

Your ‘day to day’

• • Develop, maintain, and deploy a comprehensive spare parts strategy across U.S. manufacturing sites, including criticality analysis, min/max settings, obsolescence management, and supplier recommendations.
  • Ensure alignment of spare parts strategy with reliability metrics (MTBF/MTTR), asset performance data, and loss elimination priorities.
  • Lead spare parts loss analysis in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to identify inventory gaps, excess stock, and risk exposure.
  • Conduct feasibility assessments, build business cases, and define roadmaps for improvement initiatives.
  • Integrate spare parts strategy with reliability engineering activities, including failure mode analysis, component redesign recommendations, MTBF tracking, and consumption analytics.
  • Develop, optimize, and maintain spare parts standards, procedures, and playbooks; ensure consistent governance, documentation control, and version management across U.S. sites in alignment with global PMI standards. 
  • Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate part identification, sourcing, quality, and availability.
  • Prepare, maintain, and regularly update business continuity and contingency plans (BCP).
  • Partner closely with key stakeholders to support the initiative pipeline, optimizing spare parts inventory levels, cash utilization, and service performance.
  • Work in close coordination with main stakeholders to feed the initiatives pipeline, with the objective of optimizing spare parts inventory, cash and service level

Who we’re looking for:

• • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
  • Proven experience in a manufacturing or technical/engineering environment.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Lean Manufacturing, aligned with functional skill matrix requirements.
  • Fluent in English (written and verbal).
  • Strong knowledge of advanced analytical and problem‑solving tools.
  • Willingness and ability to travel, with no mobility restrictions.
  • Strong competencies in analytical thinking, action orientation, interpersonal effectiveness, and creativity.

Annual Base Salary Range: $ 132,000 - $165,000

What’s ‘nice to have’

Legally authorized to work in the U.S. (required)

What we offer 

We offer employees a competitive base salary and the potential to receive a discretionary annual bonus. 

 Employees (and their families) also have the option to enroll in our company's medical, dental, and vision plans. The company offers flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care and health savings accounts for those who choose to enroll in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP). Employees are auto enrolled in our company’s 401(k)/Deferred Profit Sharing (DPS) Plan, which provides for both annual 5% employer matching and annual employer contributions. 

As a new hire, you will enjoy paid vacation time, paid sick time, 12 paid company holidays, and 3 paid floating holidays. We also provide our employees with paid parental leave, paid family and medical leave, paid bereavement leave, paid sick and safe time, paid public emergency leave, paid time off for jury duty, and paid time off for certain activities relating to their status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or crime. The company offers unpaid National Guard and reserve leave, unpaid civil air patrol leave, unpaid qualified volunteer leave, and unpaid time off for employees engaging in certain activities relating to criminal proceedings. 

The company also provides basic life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, and short-term and long-term disability insurance to employees at no cost. Employees have the option to purchase supplemental life and AD&D coverage for themselves, their spouse, and their dependent children. 

Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment, and explore.

Join an inclusive, diverse culture where each team member’s contribution is valued. Collaborate with some of the world’s best professionals and feel like you belong. 

Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our size and scale provide endless growth opportunities.

Take pride in delivering our promise to society: To improve the lives of millions of smokers. 

PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

PMI is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and its U.S. affiliates have more than 2,300 employees. 

PMI has been an entirely separate company from Altria and Philip Morris USA since 2008. PMI’s affiliates first entered the U.S. market following the company’s acquisition of Swedish Match in late 2022. Philip Morris International and its U.S. affiliates are working to deliver a smoke-free future. Since 2008, PMI has invested $12.5 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate, and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke with the goal of transitioning legal-age consumers who smoke to better alternatives. In 2022, PMI acquired Swedish Match – a leader in oral nicotine delivery – creating a global smoke-free champion led by the IQOS and ZYN brands. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized versions of PMI’s IQOS electronically heated tobacco devices and Swedish Match’s General Snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Products, and renewal applications for these products are presently pending before the FDA. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com/us and www.pmiscience.com.

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