Associate Manufacturing IT Infrastructure Tech

bridgestone; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onboarding program

Mentorship

CSR activities

Global environment

Work-life balance

Inclusive team

Job summary

Bridgestone is seeking a Manufacturing IT Infrastructure Tech for our Warren-area plant to support the IT team, ensuring smooth operations of hardware, software and networks, and handling installation and maintenance of IT assets and related infrastructure.

You will help design improvements to plant IT systems and contribute to reliable manufacturing operations, with a focus on collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement at Bridgestone.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to IT infra projects with detailed guidance.
• Helps analyze network capacity needs for current and future requirements.
• Helps design network architecture and analyzes software/hardware/network systems.
• Assists in ensuring SLA compliance and protocols.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Business Unit

BAMG - Warren

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Job Category

Engineering & Science

Position Summary

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations is seeking a Manufacturing IT Infrastructure Tech for its tire manufacturing facility located in Morrison, TN. You will support the IT team and the plant by working to ensure the smooth functioning of computer hardware, software, and networks as well as installation/configuration and proper maintenance of IT assets and related infrastructure. Develop and design solutions to improve and maintain the IT systems supporting plant operations. The Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations plant in Warren County, Tennessee produces truck and bus radial tires, including premium steer and wide base. The nearly 2 million square-foot facility employs more than 1,100 teammates as Operating Technicians, Safety and Health Managers, Quality Assurance, Engineers, and IT professionals. Apply and join our team to begin a career at Bridgestone Americas. Trust your talent; trust the journey. Be Bridgestone.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the work on computer integrated manufacturing problems of limited scope and contributes on projects or processes while receiving detailed instructions from higher level professionals
• Helps analyze the short-term and/or long-term network capacity needs for current and future network requirements
• Helps design the network architecture and performs technical analysis of software, hardware, network systems, systems engineering for front-end processors, multiplexes, LAN/WAN communications, network nodes, switches, and various transmission systems
• Assists in ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreement (SLA) standards and protocols
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

n/a

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent work experience

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they feel safe bringing their chosen version of themselves to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• An effective and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider all individuals for employment based on their unique merit and without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.