Enterprise IT Manager

Marine technology manufacturer | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Onsite | $140,000 to $180,000 base plus bonus The company

An established marine technology manufacturer with US headquarters in Fort Lauderdale and engineering, service and sales subsidiaries across Europe. Their systems run on commercial, defense and private vessels worldwide. Roughly 10 percent travel to EU sites. Valid passport required.

Three direct reports, and none of them are a help desk:

• Systems Administrator
• Application Developer
• Master Data Manager

Ticket queue performance, prioritization and escalation across the team, with service levels reported to the COO. Support roles, escalation paths and knowledge retention practices that reduce key-person dependency. Documentation and runbooks that cut repeat escalations.

The company goes live on a major industrial ERP platform in the coming months. The IT Director carries the implementation through go-live, so you are not inheriting a program mid-flight. Your job is the IT side of it: infrastructure and connectivity requirements for integrations, and the primary IT escalation point for ERP issues without disrupting engineering or service delivery. Over time, day-to-day ERP administration settles with your Master Data Manager and you own it through them.

Servers, networking, end-user devices and business-critical applications across US and EU sites. Lifecycle management, patch management and backup/DR monitoring. Flagging infrastructure changes that exceed current scope or budget.

Endpoint security, access controls and vulnerability management. The company is working toward CMMC, and leadership is actively pressure-testing which level they actually need (like Level
1). You do not need to know the framework cold. You need to know it exists, understand what it demands of an environment like this one, and have the horsepower to lead the company there once the level is settled.

A managed service provider will be in place covering three EU entities. You are the operational point of contact within negotiated SLA terms, tracking performance and escalating gaps to the COO.

AI initiatives are already underway, including a local LLM runtime and departmental agents. Your job is keeping them inside established data, infrastructure and security guardrails. The engineering team has a capable AI product owner, so this is not a product role.

• Base salary target is $140,000 to $180,000, depending on experience
• Annual bonus
• Health insurance fully covered by the employer
• HSA with employer contribution
• 401k safe harbor with a 4 percent match
• Flat, unbureaucratic culture where decisions do not take six weeks

• BS in IT or a related field, or equivalent education, training and experience
• 7+ years of progressive IT leadership with demonstrated ownership of enterprise IT environments in manufacturing, engineering or industrial contexts
• 3+ years managing technical teams across multiple disciplines
• Windows Server, Active Directory / Azure AD and M365 administration
• Foundational networking: switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs
• Patch management, backup/DR monitoring and security hygiene practices
• Power Shell or another scripting language
• ERP experience in a production and engineering environment
• Experience managing IT contractors and MSP relationships, including SLA management and multi-site delivery
• Enough familiarity with regulated environments (CMMC, NIST, ITAR, GDPR) to know what compliance will ask of you, and the judgment to build toward it

• IFS enterprise software
• Marine, manufacturing, production or engineering environments
• Multi-entity or cross-border IT management, including EU operations
• Hybrid infrastructure across on-premises, cloud-adjacent and edge
• SOC 2 and export control exposure through defense or government customers
• Fluency in German, Dutch, French, Spanish or Italian

Hands-on and strategic at the same time. Reliable, responsive and detail-oriented. Comfortable holding several competing priorities aightforward with internal staff and external vendors.

The company has been deliberate about scope, and we would rather you know the boundaries now than discover them in month three.

• The environment is in flight, not greenfield.
• You inherit an 18-month IT roadmap rather than writing…