You will support the business by providing advanced network engineering expertise for industrial networks in approx. 20 CertainTeed roofing factories in North America. This position will be accountable for building Industrial Network Standards to be applied to factory industrial networks. This will require detailed assessment of current state and the ability to develop a gap analysis and roadmap to include budgeting. This position entails the design and solution implementation, management, troubleshooting support, of factory industrial OT networks on the floor, including servers, switches, HMI industrial PC’s and numerous PLC’s.

This will include analyzing existing network infrastructure, identify weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and IT policy compliance issues. Suggest, develop, design, and implement solutions with a focus on reliability in close collaboration with the central IT/OT Team. Work closely with the factories to prepare and submit capital expenditure requests for major improvement projects. You will build and maintain highly-detailed network documentation including network diagrams and architectural assessments for support, audit, compliance and disaster recovery purposes. Develop capabilities in the factories by providing training of network troubleshooting for existing plant technical resources including automation and controls engineers and maintenance technicians. In this position, you will be responsible for production support and business issue resolution. In order to do this effectively, you will be the first contact for end user technical inquiries and network issues and will work directly with the central IT/OT Team in problem analysis and customer concerns. You will collaborate with Engineering and Developers/Data Architects to provide an overarching data structure strategy for ISA95 type infrastructure as an example as well as change management, security measures, and information architecture implementation for data collection solutions & environments.