Director of Information Technology

Main Position Responsibilities

• Responsible for enterprise technology planning, collaborating with Senior Leaders to assure alignment to goals and an information technology roadmap that supports strategic and near-term goals.
• Lead enterprise IT transformation initiatives, including potential evaluation, selection, and implementation of a standardized ERP platform, driving simplification, scalability, and process alignment across the organization.
• Assess current systems infrastructure and develop roadmap for consolidating aging and obsolete systems.
• Partner closely with Finance and Operations leadership to ensure IT investments deliver measurable business value, including cost efficiency, productivity improvements, and risk reduction.
• Provide leadership to IT application and infrastructure team, prioritizing projects based on value creation, and ensuring commitments are met while providing high quality, stable, secure and cost-effective systems and solutions.
• Own and evolve internally developed manufacturing applications, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with operational needs.
• Establish a product-oriented mindset for internal systems, including lifecycle management, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive a culture of accountability, system discipline, and data integrity across the organization, ensuring that technology solutions are standardized, adopted, and effectively utilized.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Develop and lead a comprehensive cybersecurity program, including risk assessment, mitigation strategies, incident response planning, and alignment with industry best practices.
• Regularly communicate risk posture and preparedness to executive leadership.

Employee Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in combination of application development and management including infrastructure, in both stable and growth environments.
• Experience evaluating Manufacturing ERP systems preferred.
• Demonstrated project management experience in development, versed in agile methodology, JD Edwards, Business Objects and SQL.
• Demonstrated success driving organizational change.