Plant IT Specialist

2 months ago

Owensboro, United States Umanist Staffing LLC Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionJob Description:& & Job Summary:& &
  • 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&
& Top Qualifications:&
  • Good troubleshooting skills&
  • Technical expertise&
  • Ownership&
  • &
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 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&
& Years of Experience:& 5 years& of Experience&

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