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IT & Data Systems Engineer
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IT & Data Systems Engineer
An exciting opportunity is now available for an IT & Data Systems Engineer, to join a leading manufacturing business, with an ambitious systems development program.
Due to the nature of the manufacturing operational environment, technology issues will have a direct impact on production uptime, safety and customer delivery, and a Production-first mindset is key!
Main Purpose of Role
To own and improve the reliability of factory-floor systems and production data flows, bridging IT, Operational Technology and business reporting needs.
To support all Operational Technology - plant-floor PCs, industrial connectivity and vendor access patterns and ensures production data flow is stable, monitored, and well-documented.
To help monitor, maintain and develop the data systems/reporting within the business, ensuring quality data and reporting is available and well-documented.
The role works closely with the Infrastructure & Security Engineer to ensure OT networks are securely segmented, and with the DBA & Systems Development Engineer to maintain resilient SQL/reporting pipelines.
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Key Responsibilities
OT Systems
- Support and maintain plant-floor PCs, terminals, and industrial endpoints used in production operations.
- Own Operational Technology connectivity troubleshooting in collaboration with Engineering and Vendors
- Support OT network structure and segmentation (VLANs, access paths)
Data & Production Flows
- Primary owner for production systems/data flows reliability, monitoring, and issue resolution.
- Work with DBA & Systems Development Engineer to troubleshoot SQL/ETL job failures that impact production reporting or operational decision-making.
Day-to-Day Housekeeping
- Daily health checks on production data flow
- Daily review of production-impacting alerts/incidents and ensure escalation path is followed when required.
- Maintain an up-to-date Operational Technology asset inventory
Skills & Experience
Skills
- Production-first mindset with calm, structured troubleshooting under pressure.
- Strong analytic and problem solving
- Strong communication skills to work across Operations, Engineering, Finance and third-party vendors.
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Experience
- Experience supporting systems in a manufacturing/industrial environment or in a role with high uptime requirements.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (IP, VLANs, routing concepts) and how connectivity impacts shop-floor systems.
- Practical experience supporting Windows endpoints and basic server/service dependencies in an operational environment.
- Working knowledge of SQL fundamentals
- Comfortable coordinating vendors and maintaining disciplined documentation.
Desirable
- Experience supporting production data systems and integrations.
- Experience working with IT segmentation concepts and vendor access governance.
- Power BI / reporting awareness.
- Experience with ticketing systems and basic ITIL-style incident/change processes.
Interested, please contact Graeme at Vibe Recruit on 07971 309403 or apply now!
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