What are the responsibilities and job description for the Information Technology Manager position at United Plastic Fabricating?
United Plastic Fabricating is the industry leader in the manufacture of plastic water tanks for the fire industry. In addition, we design and manufacture a variety of products for the industrial and transportation markets.
The IT manager will be responsible for managing all IT technologies and technical IT infrastructures as well as manage personnel in department. Below please find a list of additional job functions that may be included but not limited to role:
- Oversee all Communication (LAN, WAN, email, etc.), database, backup recovery, and regulatory compliance
- Prepare overall status and activity metrics that documents and tracks delivery of IT services, planned and unplanned system outages, and other key IT performance metrics
- Maintains overall security of the network, systems, and data
- Develop and manage relationships with vendors in support of staff augmentation and systems support
- Manage overall capacity utilization of server/hardware environment ensuring it is optimized to meet business requirements
- Contribute to the development of IT departmental strategies to align with the overall business strategy as well as corporate strategy
- Develop and maintain overall backup and recovery strategy (Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity)
- Establish and implement 'best practice' standards as well as departmental policies and procedures
- Overall responsibility for leasing, and strategic planning for system upgrades Determine, recommend and implement hardware and software upgrades for business
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent
- A minimum of 5 years experience in a manufacturing environment
- Leadership and technical skills
- Experience in a CMMC environment helpful
- Willingness to travel to different sites to understand current business units and IT challenges in order to recommend solutions
- Strong hands on/technical knowledge of core Microsoft technologies including but not limited to Windows Servers, Active Directory, MS SQL and core Network/Cisco technologies
- Certs in Mcp, Itil 4, Network plus, Project plus, Microsoft or azure, Crisc and Pmp helpful
- Knowledge of VMware technologies including ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 6.0, vCenter Server, Update Manager, and application virtualization via ThinApp
- Good familiarity with other IT Infrastructure technologies like storage area networks (SAN), WAN acceleration devices, virtualization, and data warehouse
