Director of IT Operations - Build & Scale Plant Tech

Blue Signal Search; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual bonus

Health benefits

Paid time off

Company holidays

High-visibility leadership role

Build IT organization

Job summary

Blue Signal Search seeks a business-minded Director of IT Operations to own the technology function, strengthen infrastructure across locations, and guide growth through a major new production facility.

You will build an internal IT team, set the technology roadmap, manage ERP and enterprise applications, vendor relationships, and ensure scalable, secure operations that support manufacturing and plant initiatives.

Qualifications

• Progressive IT leadership with strong infra, networking, servers and security knowledge.
• Experience evaluating objectives, budgeting, and executing initiatives with business impact.
• Experience in manufacturing/industrial environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set the technology roadmap across corporate and plant environments translating business priorities into scalable plans.
• Direct core infrastructure: networks, servers, endpoints, IAM, backup, security controls, business apps.
• Own technology workstream for a major new production site including design, connectivity, security, budgeting, deployment.
• Partner with finance, operations, engineering, supply chain and plant leadership to align tech with growth and production needs.
• Provide ERP and enterprise applications leadership while collaborating with application specialists and external tech resources.
• Manage vendors, licensing, procurement, and project resources focusing on performance and accountability.
• Build and develop an internal technology team with hiring, coaching and delegation.
• Establish scalable policies, documentation, operating standards, access controls and service processes.

Skills

IT infrastructure

Networking

Servers

Security

Identity and access management

Enterprise systems

Business-minded leadership

Manufacturing environment experience

Tools

NetSuite familiarity

ERP platforms

Job description

Blue Signal Search seeks a business-minded Director of IT Operations to own the technology function, strengthen infrastructure across locations, and guide growth through a major new production facility.

You will build an internal IT team, set the technology roadmap, manage ERP and enterprise applications, vendor relationships, and ensure scalable, secure operations that support manufacturing and plant initiatives.