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Plant Champion
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Hybrid Onsite/Remote + Travel
Job Summary
We’re 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 USA 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.
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
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 interfaces, 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
For over 16 years, Brooksource has established and maintained relationships that are designed to meet your IT staffing needs. Whether it’s contract, contract-to-hire, or permanent placement work, we customise our search based upon your company’s unique initiatives, culture and technologies. With our national team of recruiters placed at 21 major hubs around the nation Brooksource finds the people best-suited for your business. When you work with us, we work with you. That’s the Brooksource promise.
Brooksource is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.
Benefits & Perks:
Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.
Pay Disclaimer:
The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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