IT Specialist

Job Description:

IT Specialist – Business Applications – Manufacturing Central Apps

Huntsman is seeking an IT Specialist – Business Applications – Manufacturing Central Apps supporting the IT Division. This position will report to the IT Manager Sr - Manufacturing Center of Excellence.

In summary, as the IT Specialist, you will:  

• Lifecycle global or regional strategic applications. Maintain proper documentation of this life-cycling. Life-cycling includes but is not limited to
  • Planning and Requirements
  • Design from architecture designs
  • Testing and Deployment
  • Operations and Maintenance
  • Retirement
  • Rationalization
  • Stakeholder and business owner communication

• Assist in the implementation of projects.
• Communicate tactfully and effectively both verbally and in writing and maintains effective work relations with those encountered during the course of employment.
• Follow the sun support during critical incidents.
• Work closely with the customer, understanding the issues and requirements associated with their business processes, assisting them in evaluating viable options, and when appropriate, make recommendations on technology solutions or configuration changes.
• Play a key role in the planning, designing, configuring, installing, training, unit testing, and commissioning of new technology solutions.
• Ensure that all relevant standards with regard to data management, system security, data security, account management and change control are satisfied to maintain the integrity of the managed systems. Provide production support for assigned business systems including, maintaining data security and integrity, controlling user access, third and fourth level support, and coordinating with other technical resources to assist as necessary.
• Any other items needed to ensure that the manufacturing technology team meets the needs of Huntsman as determined by MT management. Be flexible and adaptable to new instructions and/or dynamic organizational priorities is critical for job success.

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
 
The candidate must have an unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Business/Computer Science and 5+ years of experience.
• Or Bachelor’s degree in Business/Computer Science and 3+ years of experience.
• Experience in lieu of degree – 10+ years in like positions.

Skills and knowledge

•  In depth level knowledge of the following technology areas:
  • Firewalls and cyber security best practices
  • Networks, subnetting, packet flow
  • Servers, storage, backups, high availability, fault tolerance
  • Backups and disaster recovery
  • Active Directory and Group Policy
  • Virtual Desktop technologies (Azure, VMware, etc.)
  • Automation tools and processes
  • PowerShell / scripting
  • Diagraming skills for system design artifact creation
  • Development and deployment of IT projects from MT Architecture designs
  • Database design, structured query language, tables, queries, field relationships

• Some knowledge of:
  • Data lakes and data warehousing
  • Programming with various languages
  • Mobility

Huntsman is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation and/or expression or any other characteristic protected by law in every location in which we have facilities national or local. 

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Huntsman is aware of a scam involving fraudulent job offers. Huntsman does not make job offers until after a candidate has submitted a job application and has participated in a face-to-face interview. Please be advised that emails from Huntsman always end in “@huntsman.com” , and that any job offer that requires payment or requires you to deposit a check is likely a scam. If you have questions about any open positions at Huntsman, please visit our Careers website at http://www.huntsman.com/corporate/a/Careers.

Additional Locations:

Auburn Hills, Michigan, McIntosh, Alabama, Ringwood, Illinois, Rock Hill, SC