Manufacturing IT Operations Manager (Advanced Manufacturing)

Location: Sanford, North Carolina, United States. Onsite five days per week, with possible work from temporary offices during the facility transition. High travel of 50–75% may be required during construction planning, supplier reviews, equipment installation, commissioning, startup, and production ramp-up. US domestic relocation is available.

Salary: $159,120–$238,680 per year.

Company

hirify.global is developing a technology-enabled advanced manufacturing campus for compact track loaders and telehandlers, incorporating automation, robotics, digital production systems, and integrated logistics.

What you will do

• Coordinate hirify.global IT teams, architects, service providers, vendors, and technical specialists to deliver technology aligned with enterprise standards and manufacturing needs.
• Support connected equipment, automation, production visibility, industrial data, analytics, and manufacturing systems.
• Align IT and operational technology requirements, ownership, cybersecurity, supportability, dependencies, and implementation risks.
• Translate manufacturing needs into implementation plans, operational priorities, governance, documentation, training, and support models.
• Evaluate platforms and vendors based on business value, technical feasibility, cybersecurity, safety, scalability, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Lead the transition from project delivery to operational support and develop roadmaps for reliable long-term facility operations.

Requirements

• Experience leading complex IT programs, manufacturing technology deployments, site start-ups, or large-scale business transformations involving multiple teams and vendors.
• Ability to translate manufacturing and business outcomes into architecture decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and long-term plans.
• Experience guiding multidisciplinary teams toward secure, scalable, supportable, and practical solutions.
• Strong partnership and communication skills with business leaders, manufacturing stakeholders, engineers, technology teams, vendors, and systems integrators.
• Experience managing, coaching, mentoring, or directing technical professionals and leading organizational change.
• Must work onsite five days per week and be available for significant travel during facility launch activities.

Nice to have

• Experience with greenfield plants, facility expansions, infrastructure modernization, technology transformations, or complex site launches.
• Knowledge of industrial networking, edge computing, machine connectivity, factory automation, robotics, operational technology platforms, and manufacturing systems.
• Experience with operational technology cybersecurity, network segmentation, identity, asset visibility, secure remote access, resilience, disaster recovery, Zero Trust, or industrial cybersecurity.
• Familiarity with cloud or hybrid infrastructure, architecture frameworks, vendor evaluation, systems integrators, ISA-95, ISA/IEC 62443, or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Paid time off, holidays, and volunteer time.
• 401(k), HSA, FSA, disability, and life insurance benefits.
• Career development, tuition reimbursement, incentive bonus, and employee assistance programs.
• Parental leave, adoption benefits, and employee discounts.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.