Director, Information Technology

Job Details

Description

CEC is committed to hiring people with passion, talent, a collaborative spirit, and a drive to succeed both individually and as a team.

With offices in DFW, Austin, and Montana, CEC Facilities Group is one of Texas' premier specialty contractors, and we are growing at a rapid pace.

We are looking for competent professionals to join our team as we launch new projects and continue growing.

Position Summary

Information Technology Director is responsible for our internal IT department. This includes the entire IT portfolio and desktop support function.

IT Director will bring positive energy and a passion for partnering with company business leaders to deliver tactical high value, transformative, IT projects and support.

This is a hands-on position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of IT professionals. Foster a collaborative and high-performance work culture.
• Establish detailed short-term, medium-term and long-term IT plans to meet company strategy and goals. Collaborate with senior leadership to identify technology opportunities and risks.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of the company's IT infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Maintain and enforce IT security policies and procedures to protect the company's data and infrastructure form threats.

Say current with cybersecurity trends and best practices.

• Establish, maintain and track SLA performance of existing and identified service providers, subcontractors and equipment suppliers to the IT department.
• Audit and establish documented data recovery and business continuity plan from IT perspective. This includes proposing and implementing plans to address any gaps identified in the current infrastructure.
• Participate in the annual budgeting process for Information Technology staffing, expenses and capital costs, including budgeting for the following year based on approved IT plans and monitoring spending to adhere the current year IT budget.
• Maintain and support company-wide Analytics, BI, KPIs, and data visualization across platforms.
• Partner with business leaders across the company to prioritize initiatives and standardize approaches to information delivery.

Serves as a key point of contact for information delivery needs and seeks ways to improve the new technology utilization and adoption.

• Provide regular reports and updates on IT performance, projects, and initiatives to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Extend the baseline Microsoft Technology Stack to enhance user productivity through implementation of new software technology where applicable, and the implementation of policies that more effectively utilize IT resources.
• Be a hands-on development and administration manager with experience in these technologies in use : Microsoft Office 365 Client and Online Suite Microsoft OneDrive for Business Microsoft Power Automate Microsoft Power BI Microsoft SharePoint PowerShell Scripting Cisco Meraki Network Infrastructure Windows Server Infrastructure, Active Directory Azure Salesforce

Other Duties and Responsibilities

Performs other related duties as assigned to ensure efficient and effective processes, completion of projects and smooth operation of department.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Prefer 8 years experience in Information Technology Leadership role.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Ability to work well with technical and non-technical company employees.
• Strong analytical background with business acumen, and heavy experience in business and analytical consulting.
• Demonstrated excellence in communications (verbal and written), presentation, financial management, analytical and customer focus skills.
• Work closely with Sales & Marketing, Estimating and Production leadership to drive the development and execution of new data-driven improvements.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job operates in a clerical office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requires mobility within an office environment.
• Regularly required to talk and hear. Effectively communicate with others both written and orally, including using the telephone.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• The employee may be required to walk; reach with hands and arms; and bend.
• May be required to stoop, kneel, and crouch. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Possess good hearing, normal or corrected.
• The employee must be able to regularly lift and / or move up to 10 pounds, lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. The employee may be required to climb stairs.

Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required and night or weekend shifts, as needed.

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in our workforce. It is our policy to attract and retain the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, status as a military veteran, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.