SUMMARY:
Plant Infrastructure Support Lead, Manufacturing industry, Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
POSITION INFO:
Our client, a renowned Manufacturer in the Automotive industry is seeking to URGENTLY appoint a dynamic Plant Infrastructure Support Lead to join their multifunctional team based at their Ladysmith Operation.
MAIN PURPOSE FOR THE ROLE:
- To serve as Plant IT Engineer/Technicians team leader.
- To ensure IT Governance, Strategic planning of digital systems landscape, Systems Uptime, Disaster recovery.
- To deliver IT Project Capex Budget planning and management.
- To ensure the effectiveness of Management, reporting, and steering committee deliverables.
- To effect Customer support excellence.
KEY COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:
- At minimum a bachelor’s degree in IT
- Certifications / Training / Licences / Registrations are essential.
- Preferred: ITILL, Windows OS (All) server, Cisco, Veeam.
- At least 5-years’ IT team lead experience
- Ability to drive IT Project management deliverables.
- Server Engineer, Network Engineer - design, configuration, and management
- Server and Network monitoring software
- Cyber Security
- Organizational Information systems
- Desktop Support.
- IT Support in a manufacturing environment
- CCTV, Access Control, LIMS, PABX
- SQL, SCADA, Historians, MES, ERP.
KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Leadership:
- Performance management of subordinates
- Individual people’s development
- Presentation skills, Plant Operational & Architectural Committees, Global IT systems Alignment.
- Coaching and training operational staff on plant systems knowledge gaps.
- Identifying new technologies and compiling business cases for adoption.
- Safety (OHS) Audit responsibilities.
Reporting and Systems administration:
- Systems availability, performance, and capacity management
- Disaster recovery strategies, fail over testing, SOP’s, policies, IP Lists etc, Change management.
- IT Support excellence & tacking.
- Business systems integration and automation
- System upgrades
- Plant Shutdown activities.
IT Functional systems:
- WAN, LAN, WiFi, IT &OT networks, firewalls, NAT, NAS, Tape backups
- Servers, Server Rooms, UPS
- Cyber Security, antivirus
- SQL Database administration
- AD, SCCM, CCTV, Access Control, PABX, LIMS, Warehouse & weighbridge systems
- Office systems: Printers, PC’s, Laptops, renewals, replacements, Software Licencing, desktop support, Help desk.
- Asset management.
APPLY NOW!
WILLINGNESS TO RELOCATE TO LADYSMITH IS ESSENTIAL. SHOULD THIS OPPORTUNITY NOT BE ALIGNED TO YOUR CAREER ASPIRATIONS, KINDLY FORWARD IT TO A FRIEND.
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