Manufacturing Systems Administrator

Job Description

Job Description

What Makes Honda The Best?

Are you an innovator? Honda’s core values are what make our company unique.

• Dreams: The Power of Dreams mentality drives our team to create intelligent products that enhance mobility and increase the joy in people’s lives.
• Joy and Passion: The joy we experience at Honda is fueled by our dreams and passion.
• Challenging Spirit: Honda’s challenging spirit pushes us to set and reach ambitious goals. Honda is voluntarily reducing 50% of carbon dioxide emissions in our products by 2050 and developing technology to reduce the number of collisions to zero by 2040.
• Respect for the individual: This core value pushes our associates to contribute at the highest level and work effectively on a team.

If your goals and values are at the same speed as Honda’s, we want you to join our team!

About this position:

This position will primarily be responsible for overseeing the day to day operation / health of our Manufacturing System Server Environment. This position will coordinate with customers, the local Manufacturing Systems Technical contractor, and Honda North America IT.

Your responsibilities:

• Respond to, troubleshoot, diagnose root cause, propose and implement countermeasures for issues impacting IT manufacturing systems infrastructure.
• Monitor production IT infrastructure environment to ensure adequate system performance and response times for production applications.
• Establishes and documents environment and procedures to ensure data integrity including system failover and backup/recovery with a zero downtime mindset.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps based on business requirements and aligned with peers at other Honda manufacturing companies in North America.
• Present and complete production IT systems infrastructure changes, upgrades, and additional hardware requirements based on business requirements and technology roadmap.
• Ensure software license compliancy, certificates and vendor maintenance of HMIN production IT systems.

What you need to be successful in the role:

• Understanding of Cisco UCS principles, setup and configuration to manage infrastructure resources.
• Ability to install, configure, backup, restore and administer Red Hat, Jboss, AMQ, and DB2.
• Manage, configure, and assign resources in VMware.
• Ability to create, utilize, modify, and maintain Ansible scripts.
• Strong communication and team working skills – both verbal and written, ability to deliver informative and well-organized information to both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Lead and organize multiple support teams to resolve system and infrastructure issues including peers from other Honda locations, external service providers, and consultants.
• Provide technical and subject matter expertise for daily operations and related projects based on business requirements.
• Ability to use SQL and DB2 commands to SELECT, SORT, GROUP, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, EXPORT, and IMPORT DB2 data, ability to use scripts for automating day to day tasks.
• Experience with installing, configuring, and managing monitoring tools.
• Working knowledge or experience with DB2 Q replication.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Word.

Required Work Experience:

At least 2 years Red Hat system administration experience.

Required Education:

BS computer science/technology.

A few other important details:

• Requires strong communication skills, customer service mindset is a must.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, open office work environment where production or system downtime requires immediate attention even when cause is unknown.
• On call support availability 24x7.
• Weekends, adjusted shifts, and paid overtime required to execute and verify system changes for hardware, software and applications.
• Potential for travel up to 25%

We care about our associates and their wellbeing. We offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Competitive total compensation
• 401k Plan with company contributions
• Flexible and valuable insurance plans
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)
• Onsite automobile service center and wellness center
• Development to further your career
• Discount on Honda products
• Paid time off and paid holidays