IT Field Operations Supervisor

Valce Talent Solutions • Blair Township, PA

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About The Position

We are hiring an IT Field Operations Supervisor to lead onsite field technicians supporting plant and enterprise IT across a regional group of sites. The supervisor owns day-to-day field service delivery, including scheduling and dispatching, coaching technicians, meeting SLAs, and serving as an escalation point for plant leaders and vendors.

This is a new, hands-on player-coach role. The supervisor leads the team while also handling tickets and projects, covering technicians’ sites during PTO, illness, holidays, or leaves, and backfilling vacancies until new hires are onboarded. The role calls for a technical leader who can work directly on break-fix issues and build a high-performing team in manufacturing and warehouse environments.

The role involves regular travel between plant and site locations, work in plant, warehouse, and data center environments, and occasional evening, weekend, and on-call work for maintenance windows, outages, and recovery events. Site safety rules and PPE requirements must be followed. The position may require lifting and moving IT equipment weighing up to 40 lbs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 5 years of hands-on IT infrastructure or field services experience covering workstations, Windows Server, basic Linux, hardware break-fix, endpoint management, printers, and network troubleshooting.
• At least 2 years supervising or leading technical teams, including assigning work, checking quality, managing schedules, and coaching performance.
• Experience running multi-site or field-based support with SLA and ticket metrics.
• Working knowledge of ITSM tools, CMDB and asset management, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Experience coordinating vendors and OEMs and planning maintenance windows or after-hours changes.
• Strong communication, customer service, and stakeholder management skills, including communication with non-technical plant leaders.
• Proficiency with reporting and data analysis tools, such as Excel or a BI tool, to track team performance.
• Willingness to travel regularly to plant and site locations, cover technician shifts onsite during time off and leave, and support off-hours work during outages and maintenance windows.
• Ability to lift and move IT equipment weighing up to 40 lbs.
• Ability to work in plant, warehouse, and data center environments and follow site safety rules and PPE requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting IT in manufacturing plants, including production-floor systems, plant operations, and downtime-sensitive environments.
• Experience supporting IT in warehouse and distribution centers, including RFID, barcode scanners, handhelds, label printers, and WMS endpoints.
• Familiarity with industrial technologies and process or control systems (OT), and the boundary between IT and OT support.
• Experience working with IoT devices, sensors, kiosks, and time-and-attendance systems at scale.
• Experience leading teams through disaster recovery exercises or real recovery events.
• Experience in managed services or IT outsourcing, supporting client sites under contract SLAs.
• Certifications such as CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, ITIL Foundation, or a project management certification.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, schedule, and dispatch field technicians across assigned plant and regional sites, balancing workload, travel, and coverage.
• Hire, onboard, train, and coach technicians; conduct regular one-on-ones and performance evaluations with HR.
• Develop team skills through cross-training, certifications, and documented runbooks.
• Lead complex escalations and critical outage response onsite alongside technicians.
• Cover technician sites during PTO, sick time, holidays, and leaves of absence, including extended leave.
• Backfill vacancies until new hires are onboarded and maintain a coverage calendar and backup plan for each site.
• Stay current on site-specific technology to provide coverage without a ramp-up period.
• Own team SLA and ticket performance, including response and resolution times, backlog, first-time fix rate, and customer satisfaction.
• Plan and staff maintenance windows, power outages, downtime events, infrastructure projects, and site audits.
• Oversee asset lifecycle work, including deployments, relocations, refreshes, decommissioning, and disposal; maintain accurate CMDB and inventory records.
• Keep site playbooks, key contacts, diagrams, and operational dependencies current.
• Define, implement, and refine field operating procedures, quality checks, and safety practices.
• Track and report team metrics, identify recurring issues, infrastructure risks, and technology debt, and drive corrective actions.
• Manage parts, spares, tools, and procurement requests; support budget and resource planning.
• Serve as the primary escalation point and relationship owner for plant and site leadership.
• Communicate technical status, risks, and plans to business and technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate with OEMs, vendors, and third-party providers on repairs, warranty work, and installations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager