IT Manager

Job Details Level: Management

Job Location:

Lebanon Plant - Lebanon, TN 37087

Position Type:
Full-Time Regular

Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year

Travel Percentage: 10-25% Travel

Perma-Pipe is looking for an experienced IT Manager – USA

The IT Manager – USA is a hands-on role responsible for coordinating IT support, business systems activities, and technology-related initiatives for three U.S. locations supporting approximately 150 users.

This role partners with local business leaders, direct reports, and global IT teams to understand, support, and optimise business processes, especially manufacturing and the engineer-to-order process. The position ensures reliable end-user support, consistent use of global standards, and successful coordination of assigned U.S. project activities. It requires a practical understanding of infrastructure, networks, applications, and cyber-security, but is not expected to provide direct server or network administration.

The role is situated in the United States in either Lebanon, TN, Hebron OH, Rolling Meadows IL, or The Woodlands, TX.

This is not a remote or hybrid office position.

• Coordinate IT support and technology activities for three U.S. locations in alignment with business needs and global IT direction.
• Partner with global IT leadership to follow established standards, policies, and procedures.
• Support simplification, standardisation, and continuous improvement of local IT processes.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a small local IT team of two direct reports.
• Assist with local IT planning, purchasing, and cost control activities.

• Coordinate local support for workplace technology, infrastructure-related requests, and site connectivity needs in partnership with global IT and service providers.
• Monitor local service levels, user satisfaction, and issue resolution to support reliable day-to-day operations.
• Coordinate telecom services including internet and mobile providers.
• Oversee local service desk activity and ensure timely resolution or escalation of IT issues.
• Maintain and track local IT assets, including hardware and software inventories.

• Coordinate the U.S. implementation of ERP activities as part of a global project team, including local process readiness, communication, testing, training support, and user adoption.
• Work with manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, project management, and finance stakeholders to understand and support end-to-end business processes.
• Document, support and help optimise engineer-to-order processes, including quotation, engineering design, configuration, production planning, procurement, manufacturing execution, quality, shipping, and invoicing touchpoints.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, duplicate data entry, and process gaps across the engineer-to-order lifecycle.
• Support business systems, databases, and reporting tools in coordination with global teams.
• Assist with data analytics and reporting capabilities, including Power BI where applicable.
• Provide or coordinate IT support for engineering systems, CAD tools, shop-floor systems, and manufacturing environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve system usage, workflow consistency, data quality, and process adoption.

• Ensure local adherence to cybersecurity protocols and enterprise security standards.
• Participate in internal and external audit activities, including SOX-related requirements.
• Support implementation of global IT governance standards, processes, policies, and risk management practices at U.S. locations.
• Maintain alignment with HSE, quality, and corporate compliance standards.

• Coordinate assigned U.S. IT projects, system upgrades, and ERP-related activities in partnership with global project teams.
• Support initiatives that improve manufacturing efficiency, engineer-to-order execution, user adoption, data quality, and process consistency.
• Use practical project management methods to track actions, risks, timelines, and stakeholder communication.
• Identify opportunities to…