Lafayette Site IT Leader

Job Description Summary

Responsible for managing information technology for a manufacturing plant, including all IT infrastructure necessary for shop operations. As the Site IT leader, you will be responsible for performance & availability of IT infrastructure as well as partner with the business on digital improvements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As the Site IT leader, you will be responsible for performance & availability of IT infrastructure as well as partner with the business on digital improvements.
• Designs & implements the roadmap to drive digital improvements across IT infrastructure landscape.
• Influences LPBs and below on their decisions.
• Partners with the business to participate in lean/ process improvement initiatives & enable business transformation leveraging digital tools.
• Familiar with all business applications in use at the site and have awareness of overall business flow.
• Familiar with the digital product catalog and how it fits in with site operations.
• Works on machine instrumentation initiatives to enable enhanced business operations.
• Proactively monitors network performance (WAN / LAN / WLAN) and escape issues.
• Builds relationships with Central DT product teams for quicker resolution of networking and server/storage issues.
• Initiates technology obsolescence and improvement projects.
• Works with the CMMC compliance teams to integrate CMMC policies into the network infrastructure and design.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in IT Operations and IT Infrastructure
• Knowledge and proficiency with CMMC models, OT Networks, Firewall implementation.
• Experience with one or more of the following industrial protocols is a plus: MODBus, MTConnect, BACNet, or OPC
• Note:
  
  Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
• Eligibility Requirement:
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

Desired Characteristics:

• Proactively learns new tools and integrates new methods to drive improved outcomes.
• Identifies and assesses new technologies that can add value and capability to GE.
• Builds rapport with the team and gets buy-in for ideas.
• Drives stakeholder understanding and acceptance of new ideas in their business.
• Participates in change programs by planning implementation activities with other change champions.
• Implements monitoring and feedback systems.
• Solicits ideas for improving primary business processes.

• Establishes & communicates team members' roles in relation to their function and data.
• Shares knowledge, power and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill.
• Coordinates role responsibilities with that of others to achieve mutual goals.
• Encourages groups to work together to resolve problems.
• Proactively coaches and/or mentors others to improve their contribution to the team.
• Fosters relationship building between team members and those outside the team.
• Works with others to achieve goals without regard to band/title.
• Identifies gaps in roles on teams, and is recognized for growing and distributing talent pools across the organization.

• Identifies when additional information is needed from customer/manager/stake holder and asks relevant questions to obtain it.
• Delivers solution(s) where additional information may not be needed or available, while clearly stating any underlying assumptions.
• Communicates status.
• Evaluates data sets to determine possible value or steps to create value.

• Adjusts information (e.g. level of complexity) and story to align with audience.
• Produces functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize, using presentation and storytelling concepts.
• Informs stakeholders of customer issues, identifies potential problems or conflicts and resolves them when necessary.
• Explains the story of the rationale and benefit…