Plant IT Specialist - Umanist Staffing LLC

Job Description:&

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Job Summary:&

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Client is looking for a driven, hands-on IT hardware and software Plant IT Champion that can keep manufacturing IT systems running smoothly, manage IT life cycle projects, and ensure manufacturing IT needs are met.&

This person will be the Single Point of Contact for multiple sites.&

This person will act as the liaison between manufacturing sites and IT, ensuring manufacturing IT systems run trouble free, timely completion of projects, delivering quality outputs/results, and anticipating the business needs impacting IT.&

The candidate will have the ability to speak both IT and OT knowledgeable in the levels of the ISA-95 model, critical manufacturing operations, interfacing with the enterprise systems, computer/network infrastructure, equipment connectivity, and security. This is an onsite job where safety practices must be followed, understand how manufacturing works, and recognize the business needs for growth, re-alignment, and products.&

The candidate will have a home base and travel as needed to nearby sites. This person applies best practices to organize computer/network hardware, cabling, documentation, patching, and health monitoring.&

In addition, they are the “smart hands” working with offshore support specialists and familiar with IT terminology, practices, and tools. When a disaster unfolds, this person leads the charge for recovery&

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Top Qualifications:&

Good troubleshooting skills&

Technical expertise&

Ownership&

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Responsibilities:&

Form relationships with site personnel to be their trusted advisor. Be their voice for IT.&

Proactively monitor manufacturing IT system health for multiple locations and address issues and outages&

Oversee user IT requests, get involved to move request along, and clear roadblocks&

Assess plant IT infrastructure and make improvements as needed&

Plan, coordinate, communicate project efforts and provide onsite project support for IT equipment.&

Maintain support documentation such as network diagrams, architectures , hardware inventory, application inventory, and key contacts in a site playbook.&

Be the source of functional understanding of IT processes, tools, and integration of plant equipment with IT platforms and applications as well as Manufacturing business knowledge&

Work with sites to have an IT roadmap aligned with the business needs&

Coordinate and facility activities with third party vendors, offshore support, and other locations&

Participate in site-level DR, BCP, CMDB activities&

Capture lessons and learned and maintain in a repository&

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Key Qualifications:&

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Networking or similar technical field&

5+ years of hands-on experience with manufacturing applications, manufacturing network infrastructure, workstations, tablets, laptops, servers, firewalls, storage, barcode scanners, and printers.&

Demonstrated experience for manufacturing infrastructure best practices and IT standards&

Knowledgeable in ERP, MES, LIMS/LAB, QC/SPC, PLM, EAM, EHS, Training, and Time Keeping systems&

Operational knowledge for connectivity to hand-held devices, PLC, DCS, scales, conveyors, ovens, serial interfacd, etc.&

Experience creating site documentation such as hardware/software inventories, process flows, and architectures&

Demonstrated experience to troubleshooting issues at all levels of manufacturing hierarchy (L1 to L4)&

Experience working in production environment, know follow safety procedures, and knowledgeable in manufacturing processes especially agricultural&

Experience in ITIL aligned infra/ app delivery, facilities management and business knowledge of IT Platforms and Applications&

Effective communicator for technical and non-technical stakeholders, users, and IT staff, at all levels of the organization as an IT/OT hybrid&

Has worked with onshore/offshore model&

Competent with ITIL Framework, ITSM tools, and Change Management&

Experience working in a Global Enterprise IT multi-vendor Environment&

Experience working within a structured Project Delivery Framework&

Ability to collaborate, build relationships, and drive successful results through partnerships and across departments and organizations i.e., IT/OT Hybrid&

Self-starter and able to work independently&

Sound judgment and excellent problem-solving skills in handling balanced, complex issues&

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Years of Experience:&

5 years& of Experience&