IT Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads the team of cross functional team of business analysts, IT leads and support analysts to deliver end-to-end application management services for shopfloor apps deployed at more than 20 Adient JIT manufacturing facilities in North America.
• Leads requirements analysis, support, launch and support activities for Sequencing and other shopfloor applications.
• Develop and maintain application road map and architecture aligned with IT and business goals and objectives.
• Initiate and lead CI actions to improve the application platform availability, performance, cost of ownership, service quality and response time.
• Leads technical workshops, product road shows to increase the awareness of new changes, emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies.
• Liaise with plant operations and materials team and extended IT teams to ideate, document, and prioritize the new business demand/CI projects.
• Responsible to develop/present high level functional designs, project plans, solution architecture and budgetary estimations.
• Manage shopfloor apps installation, configuration, and deployments at manufacturing sites.
• Responsible to monitor the performance, reliability, and availability of the shopfloor applications
• Responsible to manage release and change management processes for shopfloor apps while adhering to overall Adient IT change management/security/Disaster Recovery/audit compliance policies/procedures.
• Collaborates with corporate Infrastructure team to define and certify the standards for shopfloor Client PCs and servers.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks associated with application deployment, data security, and compliance.
• Maintain accurate documentation for applications, including technical specifications, user manuals, and change management records.
• Ensure applications adhere to industry standards, legal regulations, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Manages weekly, monthly, quarterly and year goals and team performance appraisals.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree preferably in Computer Science/Engineering, MIS or related technical field.
• Minimum 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in shopfloor systems space in manufacturing industry, preferably in automotive sector
• Proven experience in ITIL based service design/execution specifically management of Incidents/ Problems/Changes and deployments.
• At least 5 years' experience in managing team size of 6-10 people consisting of IT business and application support analysts in virtual and/or hybrid environment.
• Demonstrated experience in leading medium/large scale IT software development, upgrade, deployment Projects.

• Certifications in project management and service management would be a big plus (PMP, ITIL foundation)
• Strong analytical, problem solving and problem management skills.
• 15-20 % travel to Adient sites within North America region

PRIMARY LOCATION

Central Tech Unit Plymouth MI