IT Support Specialist

The primary duties of this position center on the direction, development and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure, information management network services, and hardware and software capabilities.  The successful candidate will be a technical generalist with a deep understanding of operating system, network, information security, database and storage technologies, web design and maintenance.

The IT Support Specialist will handle a wide variety of situations and support the IT Manager in the following functions:

• →Design, manage, and maintain the company network, server, and workstation infrastructure.
• →Establish and implement security technologies, techniques and policy to protect corporate IT assets and data.
• →Develop, deploy, and maintain the continuity of operations posture and backup procedures.
• →Manage services including Email, Active Directory and other network applications.
• →Monitor the performance and functionality of the Network and all associated hardware to ensure that they are working within established standards and perform necessary maintenance and upgrades on these systems.
• →Specification of equipment and services to maintain the company’s network, server, and computer system infrastructure.
• →Document all configurations and procedures for setup.
• →Design, plan, and implement additions, deletions and major modifications to the supporting infrastructure.
• →Provide insight and recommendations for the development and maintenance of corporate policies, procedures, and processes related to information technology.
• →Configure and maintain corporate web server and FTP Server for local and external access.
• →Plan, implement and maintain wireless networking infrastructure.
• →Maintain and administer printing, fax and scanning systems and supplies.
• →Build and maintain vendor relationships and manage the purchase of hardware and software products.
• →Manage the purchasing of all software, hardware and other IT supplies.
• →Track assets and ensure accountability.

Work performed in a combination of manufacturing and office environment.  Noise level in the work environment is low to moderate.