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Job Posting Title

IT Manager - Three Rivers, MI

Job Description Summary

Ensures that IT processing services are fulfilled in accordance with service level agreements, optimizing computing resources. Managing the demand for computing resources. Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning the performance and throughput of selected IT services and utilizing supporting resources. Developing capacity planning; documenting the costs related to business activities, to make more informed decisions on business needs.

Job Description

• Manage, plan and lead IT plant department team activities.
• Manage IT team by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and correcting behaviors.
• Define and manage the IT budget and investments following IT Corporate standards, and the IT team KPOs and IT department scorecard to ensure alignment to Business and Corporate IT objectives.
• Manage critical IT systems and infrastructure implementation projects for new product lines.
• Manage and coordinate IT support for company infrastructure including datacenter management, network (WAN/LAN/Wireless), Servers (Physical/Virtual/Cloud), Backups, printers and users’ devices and plant floor infrastructure including industrial and ethernet network, desktops, laptops and industrial PCs.
• Manage and lead strategic in-house, custom-built MES (Manufacturing Execution System) projects implementing Warehouse Management System (WMS), Visual Management, Scrap Control and other manufacturing, quality and materials processes.
• Manage and coordinate IT support for manufacturing plant’s systems including MES, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), Device Wise Workbench, SQL Database Studio FIS (Factory Information System), QIS (Quality Information System), Traceability, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and others.
• Develop and support a collaborative environment working closely to other areas pursuing processes improvements and digitalization for systems integration between, production, quality, materials, finance and other areas such as integration between SCADA, FIS, MES, Oracle ERP and other systems.

Required Skills and Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science,   Information Technology, or a related field, or foreign equivalent education, and 5 years’ post baccalaureate progressive experience working in the automotive manufacturing industry in the position of IT Manager, IT Infrastructure Coordinator, Plant Floor Systems Coordinator, IT Coordinator,  or other  IT systems engineering coordination position.  5 years’ experience is required in each of the following:

• Providing IT Support for automotive manufacturing company for IT plant floor systems including MES, SCADA, WMS, ERP, and infrastructure including industrial and ethernet network, desktops, laptops and industrial PCs.
• IT projects implementation for automotive industry new products, deploying systems integration between SCADA, MES and Oracle ERP and supporting manufacturing, quality and materials processes and integration to finance processes.
• Working with Microsoft SQL Database Studio and Device Wise Workbench to support systems, traceability, data acquisition and SCADA integration to MES.
• IT assets configuration, monitoring and management including datacenter, network, users’ devices, industrial networks and industrial computers and training.

About AAM:

As a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, AAM designs, engineers and manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Headquartered in Detroit with over 80 facilities in 18 countries, we are Bringing the Future Faster for a safer and more sustainable tomorrow. To learn more, visit AAM.com.

Why Join #TeamAAM:

As a member of #TeamAAM, you’ll get to make a difference on day one. From your first day with us, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, embrace challenges, build your skills, and bring your authentic self to work every day, all while helping to shape the future of mobility for AAM…and the world.

AAM will not discriminate against any Associate or applicant for employment because of age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. AAM will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that Associates are treated equally during employment, without regard to their age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. For the Disabled Job Seeker: We offer reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled individuals who are applicants for employment. To request assistance or accommodations, please e-mail TalentAcquisition@aam.com. AAM is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.