Network Engineering Manager

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia’s market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

The Network Engineering Manager is responsible for leading, coordinating, and overseeing the day‑to‑day operations of the enterprise network environment. This role provides technical leadership and people management for Network Engineers while ensuring the availability, performance, and security of Covia’s network infrastructure. The Network Engineering Manager is accountable for operational excellence, adherence to standards, and delivery of network services that support business and operational requirements across all locations.

The successful incumbent will have the following Key Accountabilities:

• Provide leadership and direct management of the Network Engineering team, including workload prioritization, task assignment, coaching, and performance management.
• Ensure reliable operation of enterprise network services, including LAN, WAN, wireless, VPN, internet connectivity, and supporting network security components.
• Oversee incident, problem, and change management activities related to network services, ensuring timely resolution and minimal business impact.
• Serve as escalation point for complex or high-impact network issues and outages.
• Ensure network designs, configurations, and changes align with established standards, security requirements, and architectural direction.
• Review and approve network changes and implementations following defined change control processes.
• Maintain accurate and current network documentation, diagrams, standards, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with Information Security, Infrastructure, OT, and Application teams to support enterprise initiatives and site projects.
• Coordinate with vendors, carriers, and managed service providers to support network operations, projects, and issue resolution.
• Support network lifecycle management, including hardware refreshes, capacity planning, and technology improvements.
• Provide regular reporting and metrics related to network performance, incidents, and operational health.
• Assist IT leadership with network strategy, roadmap planning, and budgetary input as required.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical understanding with people and operational management.
• Proven problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Customer-focused mindset with attention to business impact and operational reliability.

The successful incumbent will have the following Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in network engineering or network operations within an enterprise environment.
• Prior experience leading or supervising technical staff, either in a formal management role or technical lead capacity.
• Strong working knowledge of routing, switching, TCP/IP, VLANs, wireless networking, and VPN technologies.
• Experience supporting multi-site and geographically distributed networks.
• Experience with enterprise networking platforms and vendors (e.g., Cisco, Palo Alto, Aruba, or similar).
• Experience working in manufacturing, industrial, or OT‑integrated network environments.
• Industry certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Network , or equivalent.
• Familiarity with IT service management processes (incident, problem, change).

Occasional after-hours support required for major incidents, maintenance windows, or critical changes.

Periodic travel to Covia locations may be required.

Commitment to Our Culture

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage—guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success—ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

• Live the Life-Saving Rules
• Build high-performing work teams
• Focus on customers
• Demonstrate a growth mindset
• Do the right thing, always

 At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success.  Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality, and respect within the workplace.  We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or military service or reserve or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits. 

Benefits:

• Excellent Healthcare Benefits – medical, vision, dental
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Time Off Paid Holidays
• Disability plans and Life / AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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