High Level Statement of the Role
The IT Manager will be responsible for leading the plant IT and software engineering group. This group is responsible for designing and implementing application and data solutions to improve the systems, reports, and processes used by the operations, engineering, quality, and materials departments.
High Level Roles & Responsibilities
Grow and develop the software engineering team skill set.
Continuously improve software quality and testing practices.
Integrate equipment and information systems to automate data exchange and enhance reporting
Automate data acquisition, collection, aggregation and reporting to reduce error, increase efficiency, and improve information availability
Develop the team’s experience in data science and build a big data solution for our operational challenges
Take our operation to the Industry 4.0 revolution
Research new tools, software, and equipment for plant specific needs to more highly automate operations, transactions, and reporting in all departments
Evaluate existing transactions and reports for automation opportunities, translate opportunities into technical requirements, logic, and code
Write interfaces, conversions, reports and queries
Facilitate and organize continuous improvement teams focused on software automation and error proofing projects.
Lead project teams with numerous technical and non-technical disciplines
Document processes and systems
Work with global team to interact with global systems in an acceptable manner to automate transactions to/from global systems
Skills to Perform This Role
Interpersonal Skills
Extremely Creative/Innovative in groups and teams
Self-motivated
Work with a variety of disciplines, situations, and people
Facilitate and communicate organizational and process changes
Positive attitude
Team player – easy to get along with
Technical Skills
Understanding of electronics manufacturing processes
Experience with Specific Tools: SAP, , Valor, PLM
Development experience with .NET, MySQL, PHP, C, HTML, Perl, Python in an open systems environment on Windows systems
Understand both manufacturing processes and IT systems and possess strong root cause analysis skills to identify correlations and draw conclusions.
Experience developing system interfaces, machine interfaces, web applications, web services and clients, Windows services and forms, software libraries, database development, and scripting.
Experience developing and maintaining highly modular code libraries utilizing revision control software
Experience with lean software development methodologies to facilitate the rapid prototyping, development, and deployment of applications and systems
Extensive experience with shop floor data collection, including serialized data collection of process results, test results, paperless repair operations, quality analysis and reporting, statistical process control, shop floor processes and controls, scheduling, and traceability
Software project management experience (scope, workload, resources, timeline, revision control)
Hardware knowledge: servers and IP networks, shop floor data acquisition, automation, and flow control (PLCs, mobile RF devices, RFID devices, barcode scanners, label printers and serialization)
Machine and tester data acquisition interfaces
Ability to translate “vague” verbal descriptions of processes and transactions into detailed logic flow and code
Communication Skills
Extract rules for rules-based decisions from team members
Effectively communicate technical and non-technical information to/from both non-technical and technical users
Good written and verbal communication
Leadership Skills
Ability to plan and execute software and system projects
Open minded visionary
Champion diversity of ideas and thought processes
Good organization skills
Ability to Mentor/Teach/Coach
Ability to make decisions
Business Skills
Outstanding vision and problem solving skills
Handle multiple simultaneous projects
Meet challenging deadlines
Prioritize projects by maximum positive business impact
Lean Six Sigma methodologies to solve business problems