The IT/IS Leader provides leadership, management, and coordination of the IT/IS and Systems Engineering operations. Coordinates with appropriate internal and external parties on all executive levels to ensure system up-time KPIs are met along with facilitating project workloads/projects with the various Engineering, Manufacturing, and Maintenance groups.  Provides project management guidance for multi-disciplined resources/projects and support matching inside resources. The IT/IS Leader contributes to building brand value and achieving system uptime.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for manufacturing plant’s up-time of IT/IS systems
• Responsible for ensuring efficiency and maintenance of IT/IS system positively affect the manufacturing environment’s OEE (overall equipment efficiency)
• Leads departmental budgeting, planning and approval processes
• Achieves and ensures departmental objectives consistent with corporate and global strategies
• Prescribes policy compliance and enforcement
• Acts as a liaison with executive management, both within the procurement function and interdepartmentally
• Develops long range general IT/IS and Systems Engineering strategies and plans
• Performs special projects requiring a high level of confidentiality and sensitivity
• Coordinates project resources that best fits with the organizations needs following a waterfall/agile SDLC
• Negotiates with support vendors for better solutions and rates resulting in more sustainable implementations
• Supports multiple regions in the application of horizontal deployment

Background & Requirements

• Ten or more years of comprehensive professional experience in the IT/IS field with some Manufacturing Systems Engineering
• Five or more years as a Senior Manager, providing leadership, coaching, guidance, and training and contributing to staff development
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Information Systems or related discipline. MBA or Advanced degree preferred
• Technical experience includes:
• Automated manufacturing environments with large data collection repositories and industrial controls
• Cimplicity, HMI, and SCADA platforms
• SQL server and Oracle RDBMS 
• Reviewing test plans (unit, system, integration, & user acceptance)
• Reviewing Implementation plans
• Incident, problem, and change management
• Project Management methods, tools and application development process
• Manufacturing execution system (MES) in a large-scale production environment
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in a large-scale production environment
• Networking concepts and technologies   
• Agile Methodology/Scrum principles an advantage
• Native or fluent in verbal and written Spanish, as well as a professional level of English language.

Skills                

• Enterprising
• Investigative
• Good initiative
• Leadership & coaching
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Ability to work cross functionally in a multi-cultural organization