The IT Manager will support manufacturing by being on-site, improving department efficiency in a safe, high quality, and productive manner.

Responsibilities:

·Sets direction for the department, ensuring preparation for the future.

·Maintain and continually develop Wide Area Network connectivity and topology, emphasizing dependability, speed and fault tolerance between divisions, corporate offices and resources and to customers.

·Sustain development of remote access/control systems environments, allowing for efficient management of many systems by fewer and off-site personnel.

·Manage and oversee all duties of the department personnel.

·Oversee administrative duties on all divisional servers and PC’s.

·Plan and supervise upgrades on hardware and software as required.

·Support enterprise, cross-divisional Microsoft Office, Active Directory, e-mail servers and CAD systems. Support EDI systems. 

·Manage enterprise systems backups, including File and Print servers, SQL Database Servers, E-Mail Servers, PC’s.

·Assist company personnel in development of small applications and/or manage relationships with outside companies to deliver required applications.

·Evaluation and implementation of MRP, CMS, and other software applications.

·Investigates and researches new technology.

·Oversee all installations and support of all company software and manages compliance.

·Assist in management of vendor software agreements/contracts.

·Oversee all set-up and support of all users on all systems.

·Develop and maintain network wiring and phone systems.

Education, Skills, and Experience

·Degree in Computer Science or relatedfield 

·Minimum of 5 years IT Management experience in a manufacturing environment

·Excellent analyticalskills and computer skills including MicrosoftOffice