Sr Director, IT

CECO Environmental•Addison, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

CECO Environmental is a global leader in providing sustainable solutions for industrial air, water, and energy transition. Since 1966, we’ve been addressing the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our mission is to protect people, the environment, and industrial equipment, making a tangible impact across industries like renewable energy, semiconductor manufacturing, power generation, and water treatment. As a purpose-driven company, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity, ensuring that every project we undertake creates lasting positive change. At CECO, you’ll be part of a growing, dynamic team committed to a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable future. We are proud to share that CECO was named one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Companies for 2025 and that Forbes recognized CECO as one of America’s Most Successful Small‑Cap Companies for 2026, marking our third consecutive year on the Forbes list. CECO Environmental is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ under the ticker CECO, reflecting our strong growth, financial performance, and commitment to delivering value to shareholders. As part of the CECO corporate team, you will play a key role in supporting the continued growth and success of our global family of brands. Whether working in finance, HR, IT, accounting, marketing, or another corporate function, your expertise will help drive efficiency and innovation across our organization. By joining CECO, you’ll be part of a company committed to protecting the environment and enhancing industrial operations, all while fostering a collaborative and purpose-driven work environment. The Senior IT Director, Global Infrastructure & Operations, serves as the enterprise’s senior operational leader responsible for the strategy, delivery, and continuous improvement of CECO Environmental’s global technology foundation. This role oversees global infrastructure, cloud platforms, cybersecurity operations, service management, and IT operations across all regions, ensuring secure, reliable, scalable, and cost‑effective services that enable CECO’s business growth and global footprint delivering an exceptional employee experience. Acting as the VP of IT’s primary operational partner, this leader drives execution excellence, modernization, and global standardization across a diverse technology landscape. The Senior IT Director ensures that CECO’s hybrid cloud environment, global networks, collaboration platforms, and service operations meet the needs of a complex, multinational manufacturing organization while maintaining a strong security and compliance posture. Working closely with the VP of IT, executive leadership, business stakeholders and other IT leaders, this role translates business strategy, growth initiatives, and M&A activity into modern, standardized, and resilient IT services. This role is ideal for a seasoned global leader who thrives in enterprise environments, excels at operational rigor, and brings deep expertise in infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity operations, and service management. collaboration platforms, and service operations meet the needs of a complex, multinational manufacturing organization while maintaining a strong security and compliance posture. Working closely with the VP of IT, executive leadership, business stakeholders and other IT leaders, this role translates business strategy, growth initiatives, and M&A activity into modern, standardized, and resilient IT services. This role is ideal for a seasoned global leader who thrives in enterprise environments, excels at operational rigor, and brings deep expertise in infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity operations, and service management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or MIS desired, MBA or MS preferred.
Minimum of 20 years in Information Technology and at least 10 years’ experience in a management role with direct reports.
10 or more years of related experience at publicly traded manufacturing organization is preferred with demonstrated success leading M&A technology integrations and ability to lead global teams managing MSP’s and vendor ecosystems
10 or more years of global customer service and technical experience with Azure, M365, and global WAN is preferred.
Demonstrated capability to conceptualize, analyze, and solve technical and business challenges and ability to work with global teams and managed service providers
ITIL v3 / ITIL 4 Foundation or higher
Microsoft Azure certifications (Architect, Administrator, or equivalent)
Relevant security or governance certifications (CISM, CISSP, or similar) a plus
Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 35%
Infrastructure & Cloud Strategy
Azure Architecture & Governance
IT Service Management (ITIL)
Operational Excellence & Resilience
Cybersecurity Partnership
Executive Communication
Financial & Vendor Management
Global People Leadership
Risk, Compliance & Governance
Business & Technology Alignment
Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Customer and Personal Service (intercultural skills, service minded) — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Administration and Management – knowledge of business and management principles involved in P&L management, human resources staffing and evaluation, leadership technique and coordination of people and resources.
Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Critical thinking - Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Management of Personnel Resources - Leading, motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Persuasion - Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Analytical - Strong analytical skills. Being able to analyze complex challenges by identifying fundamental drivers, fact finding and creating options based on facts and figures.
Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Oral Comprehension-The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Aptitude for Technology - The ability to apply and improve extensive or in-dept specialized knowledge, skills, and judgement by assessing, and translating information technology into responsive and effective procurement solutions.

Nice To Haves

MBA or MS preferred.
10 or more years of related experience at publicly traded manufacturing organization is preferred
10 or more years of global customer service and technical experience with Azure, M365, and global WAN is preferred.
Relevant security or governance certifications (CISM, CISSP, or similar) a plus

Responsibilities

Own and execute CECO’s Infrastructure & IT Operations strategy and multi‑year roadmap, aligned to business, digital, cybersecurity, and data strategies, in collaboration with the VP of IT and other CECO business leaders.
Lead CECO’s transition toward cloud-first and service-oriented operations, with Azure as a core platform leveraging and enabling other Microsoft technology offerings.
Translate business growth, global operations, and M&A requirements into scalable standardized and resilient technology solutions.
Serve as a senior technology advisor to IT and business leadership on infrastructure, cloud, resilience, and operational risk matters and performs other duties of similar nature as assigned.
Accountable for the design, operation, and continuous improvement of: Enterprise infrastructure (on‑prem and cloud), Microsoft Azure environments (hybrid connectivity, identity, security, governance), Networks (global WAN, LAN, wireless), SD-WAN/SASE, End-user computing and collaboration platforms (M365)
Establish operational excellence through automation, standardization, and reliability engineering principles with data driven decision making
Ensure high availability, performance, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity for all critical systems.
Design and operate Global ITSM fit‑for‑purpose IT Service Management practices, grounded in ITIL but optimized for business outcomes for a large global organization.
Own global Incident, Problem, Change, Major Incident, and Service Request processes.
Leverage ITSM platforms and operational data to: Improve service reliability, Reduce repeat incidents, Enhance user experience, Increase transparency for executives and business leaders
Define and manage SLAs, OLAs, and service catalogs aligned to business expectations implementing AIOps, automation, and predictive analytics to improve service reliability and reduce operational toil
Establish and enforce global infrastructure, cloud, and operational governance frameworks, standards, and reference architectures.
Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and control frameworks, including SOX, GDPR, CMMC, and IT General Controls (ITGC).
Own operational aspects of third‑party risk, technology risk assessments, and vendor governance.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Internal Audit to ensure consistency and control.
Own the operational security posture of infrastructure platforms, including: Secure configuration baselines, Patch and vulnerability management, Backup, disaster recovery, and resilience testing
Partner closely with Cybersecurity leadership on: Zero Trust architecture, data protection, Manage the controls and tools in place, Incident response, Ransomware readiness and recovery
Ensure security is embedded into infrastructure and operational processes from design through execution and implement IT objectives and policies.
Manages compliance with the global laws and applicable regulations including GDPR, SOX, CMMC utilizing standard frameworks.
Lead IT due diligence, integration planning, and post‑acquisition harmonization for global M&A activity
Develop and maintain standardized playbooks for onboarding acquired entities into CECO’s infrastructure, security, and service ecosystem.
Assess technology risk, cost, and operational impact during M&A evaluations.
Own the Infrastructure & Operations budget, including forecasting, cost optimization, and vendor spend and license optimizations across the enterprise globally.
Lead cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) practices.
Manage strategic vendors, global MSPs, and cloud providers to ensure service quality, value, and risk management.
Ensure adherence to software licensing agreements and asset management controls.
Build, lead, and develop high-performing, globally distributed Infrastructure & Operations teams.
Define workforce strategy, including internal capability development, outsourcing, and vendor partnerships.
Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
Coach and mentor leaders while building succession plans and reducing single‑points‑of‑failure.
Define and report executive-level KPIs and dashboards covering: Service availability and performance, Cost efficiency and cloud spend, Risk and resiliency posture, User experience and satisfaction
Enable data-driven decision making through transparent and actionable insights.