Information Technology Manager

Flex; West Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex in Columbia, SC is seeking a Manager of Information Technology to lead a broad range of IT activities from daily operations to strategic initiatives. Reporting to the Director of IT, you will supervise a team, manage budgets, and ensure reliable information systems across the site.

The role requires 12+ years of related experience, including supervision, and familiarity with WAN/LAN, cyber security, BAAN ERP, and Flex Flow.

Qualifications

• Typically requires 12+ years of related experience, including supervision.
• Demonstrates expert functional, technical and people and/or process management skills.
• Knowledge of WAN/LAN and Cyber Security policies and procedures.
• Experience with BAAN ERP and Flex Flow preferred (Or any other MES integration).

Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, and manage IT support and maintenance activities for reliable information systems.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software products to enhance information systems capabilities.
• Lead and develop a team of information systems professionals and support staff within budget.
• Manage system development cost estimates, budgets, and schedules.

Skills

IT leadership

Team management

Budget management

Vendor management

Cyber security

Strategic planning

Tools

BAAN ERP

Flex Flow

MS Office

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
We are seeking to hire a Manager of Information Technology located in Columbia SC, reporting to our Director of Information Technology. In this role; you will be Responsible for performing a wide range of tasks varying form individual contributor to project manager for medium to large size projects, in order to provide business analysis and recommend / implement automated solutions in support of financial processes and to ensure that the technical requirements are met in each development and testing environment.

What a typical day looks like:

• Plan, prioritize, and manage IT support and maintenance activities to ensure that organization’s information systems function reliably and that IT resources are used effectively.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software products that will enhance the capabilities of the organization’s information systems.
• Liaise with functional or operational area managers to understand their current and future information needs and determine how information systems should be installed, configured, and maintained to best meet these needs.
• Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of information systems professionals and support staff to ensure that the organization’s information systems are supported effectively and within budget.
• Approve system development cost estimates, budgets, and schedules.
• Direct daily department activities in order to maximize system utilization and support business needs as it pertains to a site’s IT infrastructure. Examples include IMAC, VMAC, and responding to Help Desk tickets.
• This IT infrastructure includes (but is not limited to) LAN, WAN, telephony, server administration, desktop support, printers and barcode scanners.
• Manages the relationship with the service providers of any outsourced infrastructure component. This includes managing the service level agreement, change management, maintaining a thorough understanding of cost issues including participating in negotiation of new cost schedules.
• Manage business continuity and recovery of company’s information systems, including needs analysis, design, plan development, implementation and documentation.
• Select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Provide technical and/or project leadership for mid to large-scale projects.
• Provide solutions to a wide range of difficult problems requiring creative solutions.

The experience we are looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires 12+ years of related experience, including supervision
• Demonstrates expert functional, technical and people and/or process management skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.
• Knowledge of WAN/LAN and Cyber Security policies and procedures.
• Experience with BAAN ERP and Flex Flow preferred (Or any other MES integration)

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