IT Specialist

Job Purpose

Designs, implements, and maintains information systems that support and drive the business. Scope ranges from business system integration through individual application administration. This individual must take an active role in fulfilling their responsibilities while also possessing a broader understanding of the company's needs. The systems supported by this role will influence business operation and decisions, so a high degree of attention to detail is expected.

Key Result Areas

• Operations
• Administration
• Finance
  
  

Primary Work Activities

• Administrate business applications for purchasing, quality, and sales and marketing departments.
• Oversee company network architecture, including servers, routers, and virtual machines.
• Create and maintain connections between business applications.
• Support manufacturing and product service databases and utilities.
• Design and implement data backup and security measures.
• Specify and procure computing and networking assets.
• Administrate individual productivity tools such as Microsoft products.
• Communicate and report systems status to leadership.
  
  

Essential Job Competencies

Customer Focus

• Demonstrate leadership and commitment with respect to the quality management system by promoting improvement as it applies to their areas of responsibility.
• Attention To Detail: Focuses on task precision for its own sake and detail orientation as a constant standard for self and others, ensuring quality and precision in every task or project.
  
  

Communication

• Team Orientation: Works collaboratively in a group setting to achieve shared results.
  
  

Initiative

• Takes Initiative in a Business Unit: Takes action on problems or opportunities and blazes new trails without prompting by others, preparing alternatives so the outcome is not jeopardized by unexpected barriers.
• Develops Technical Competence: Stays abreast of new developments in both the business & his/her main field to be effective inside the organization.
  
  

Problem Solving

• Analytic Ability: Systematically applies a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning to arrive at a well-founded, logical conclusion.
• Makes Profitable Recommendations In A Contributor Role: Weighs decisions against their impact on the bottom-line to provide recommendations that are efficient, cost-effective and practical.
• Maximizes Results By Anticipating Obstacles That Could Impede Progress: Identifies barriers to success and methodically removes them to ensure the desired results.
• Practical Thinking: Absorbs new information quickly and is comfortable dealing with abstract concepts and relationships, relating new information to old information to expand and refine one's frame of reference.
  
  

Required Certification

• Infor Certified Professional with 1 - 4 years of experience
  
  

Essential Job Skills

• Experience with data security and backup.
• Experience with business applications such as Hubspot and Jira.
• Experience with database maintenance.
• Experience with network architecture and administration.
• Experience with Cisco VPN and VMware.
• Experience with Google and Microsoft products.
• Experience with computer hardware specification and acquisition.
• Experience with supporting individual user applications and PC’s.
  
  

Equal Employment OpportunityWe are committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for our employees. We intend to fully comply with applicable laws regarding non-discrimination of employment. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), national origin, disability, age, military or veteran status, or genetic information is prohibited. Anyone who violates this policy will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.