Staff Lifecycle Operations Engineer

About the Role

Responsible for a variety of hardware and software solutions across all life cycle stages. As an active partner, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality products that meet business requirements based on defined outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business teams to creatively identify, evaluate, implement, and improve technologies and processes, arriving at mutual, cost-effective solutions utilizing Lean and Agile principles.
• Lead the development of winnable strategies that creatively use resources to anticipate and solve problems, resulting in innovative solutions for the business using alternatives beyond the obvious.
• Drive the evolution of support by delivering products at the site, including sensor enablement, data visualization, mobility, vision systems, etc., to enable data-driven decisions with speed and agility.
• Ensure stability of site operations through obsolescence planning, patching compliance, and asset maintenance management.
• Maintain documentation on all systems, installations, and configurations.
• Coordinate and communicate all Change Management and Risk Management activities.
• Lead in the evaluation and implementation of third-party software solutions.
• Initiate and coordinate outsourced supplier efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 4 years of professional experience, OR Associate’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of professional experience, OR High School Diploma with a minimum of 9 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a Distinct Area of Work (DAW) or IT.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, asylee, or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Desired Skills

Technical Expertise

• Strong technical foundation in several of the following technology areas: ERP, MES, Analytics, Network, PC Client, and Infrastructure.
• Knowledge of current business function and information technologies.
• Advanced technical foundation in infrastructure technologies.

Business Acumen

• Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics.
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of all decisions.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality and delivering complete solutions that solve business problems or deliver our strategy.
• Quality and cost-driven.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer; builds strong customer relationships; creates processes with customer viewpoint; partners with customers to help shape their future initiatives.
• Ability to meet objectives by influencing and engaging across multiple teams.