Senior System Engineer

Kitron ASA; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global team projects

Training & development

Job summary

Kitron ASA in Chennai seeks an experienced Factory IT Manager to lead the local IT infrastructure and security for the production facility. You will oversee the IT team, ensure high availability, and align IT initiatives with corporate goals.

The role requires strong technical grounding and cross-functional collaboration across the LMT. You will participate in budgeting, cyber security planning, and business continuity planning, ensuring compliance with local and global standards.

Qualifications

• Strong, broad technical foundation.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Minimum 8–10 years of relevant professional experience; bachelor’s degree optional.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize factory IT systems and infrastructure availability to minimize production disruptions.
• Ensure adequate competency and capacity to operate the factory’s local IT infrastructure.
• Actively work to prevent adversaries from gaining access to Kitron information and digital processing facilities.
• Manage and develop the factory’s IT team (direct reports).
• Participate in Corporate IT initiatives and developments as needed.
• Involvement with the Local Management Team (LMT) and report IT developments and focus areas.

Skills

Technical foundation

Problem solving

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Job description

About Kitron

Kitron is a leading Scandinavian Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, delivering improved flexibility, cost efficiency, and innovation power through the value chain. The company has operations in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, India, China,Malaysia, and the United States. With 2500 highly skilled employees, Kitron manufactures and delivers anything from fully assembled electronic circuit boards to complete end - products for customers globally. Related technical services like prototyping, industrialisation, material analysing and test development are also key competencies offered by Kitron.

Our values

Location: Chennai

Deadline: 2026.10.21

Job Description:

• Prioritize factory IT systems and infrastructure availability to minimize production disruptions
• Ensure adequate competency and capacity to operate the factory’s local IT infrastructure, and similar capability for service restorations
• Actively work to prevent adversaries from gaining access to Kitron information and digital processing facilities
• Manage and develop the factory’s IT team (direct reports)
• Participate in Corporate IT initiatives and developments as needed
• Involvement with the factory’s Local Management Team (LMT):
  • Participate in LMT meetings as needed to stay informed of factory developments and priorities.
  • Update LMT on IT developments, IT events from previous period, and IT’s focus areas on the coming period that affects the factory
  • Actively participate in ensuring compliance towards local, global and customer cyber security requirements, as led by LMT
  • IT Budget responsibility for the factory, aligned with LMT priorities
  • Participate in planning and execution of factory cyber security exercises
  • Participate in business continuity planning, as led by LMT
• Follow Company planned maintenance programs for the factory’s local IT infrastructure
• Adhere to Company hardware/software standards for the factory’s local IT infrastructure, closely aligned with LMT’s investment strategy
• Build and maintain IT infrastructure with focus on zero trust, high availability, disaster recovery, immutable backup, and swift service restoration capabilities

Requirements:

• Strong, broad technical foundation
• Solid problem-solving experience
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including working in temporary teams and groups
• Minimum 8 years and maximum 10 years of relevant professional experience.
• (Optional) bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

We offer:

• Global team and projects.
• Opportunities for personal and professional development.
• Training and competence development courses.