IT Manager - Newport News - ref. m60190119

Overview:

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card

The A.C. Coy Company has an immediate opening for an IT Manager. Ideal candidates must have more than 5 years' IT experience preferably in the agricultural food, logistics, or industrial sectors. Experience in Oracle JD Edwards is highly desired.

Responsibilities:

• Works with managers to identify and analyze requirements for information systems, develop and modify project plans, solicit input from project team, and participate in phase, milestone, and final project reviews
• Creates documentation that includes process workflows, procedures, diagramming, project reports, metrics, policies, and more
• Partners with colleagues in different work units to assess how projects will affect workloads and identify dependencies and possible issues across teams
• Will have to manage requests relating to the company's ERP software
• Recommends appropriate products and services to managers to define and track project scope, requirements, and deliverables
• Recommends purchase or contracting for IT services, equipment, products, supplies, property, or other items
• Will deal with change management, for monitoring and planning infrastructural change activities, in agreement with suppliers and application areas
• Implement and enforce security best practices and policies to protect company data and assets
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Strong knowledge of network protocols, security protocols and infrastructure technologies
• Must have a deep knowledge of IT logic, from processes to regulations
• Must be able to support internal or external audit activities
• Responsible for managing the hardware and software infrastructure, with reference to the corporate network infrastructure, internal services in the data center and in the cloud
• Must be able to build strong vendor relationships with external and internal service providers and team members
• Participates in analyzing and resolving problems associated with technical issues, project resource issues, and project integration issues
• Prepares cost estimates and develops proposals for all changes requested that affect the project
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field- preferred

• 5 years experience with SAP, SAGE, or Oracle JD Edwards
• Strong understanding of PLC-Manufacturing, Security, Microsoft, and Adobe EDI logistics systems
• Knowledge of APIs and web services
• Experience preferably in the agri-food sector, logistics and industrial sector
• Flexible, autonomous and eager to learn
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills