Field Support IT Analyst

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets – passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off-highway equipment – Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a Field Support IT Analyst in Reggio Emilia.

• Work to provide local desktop and network support and act as a liaison among the stakeholders to understand the structure, policies, and operations of the organization, supplier, and customer, and to provide solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals
• Be aware of and execute the Dana support processes and effectively utilize those processes and people within it to solve the issues for customers, without creating major disruption within the organization.
• Understands the priority and sensitivity of customer problems and assesses internal solution priorities effectively to maintain customer satisfaction
• Relate well to customers and understands the production environment.
• Communicate in a direct non-confrontational manner while maintaining good relationships and keep the customer fully informed of the status of any reported problems on a frequent basis.
• Actively seeks feedback from customers on ways to potentially improve the support process and relationships

Main Responsibilities

• Ownership for all IT activities at the facility (Involved and engaged)
• Serve as Single Point of Contact for the Plant Manager and Plant Staff relative to all aspects of IT, participate in all key meetings (Staff, Safety, Daily/Shift Huddle, Change Control, Program/Launch reviews)
• Serve as ambassador for the plant representing/escalating key IT requirements and issues to relevant IT support and process (Infrastructure, ERP, Manufacturing, etc.) to teams within IT
• In conjunction with central teams, maintain a technology roadmap/plan to track compliance to current standards relative to technology base and 5S organization principles; includes security, local data center, network components/cabinets, and peripherals
• Maintain and post the standard IT in-plant scorecard containing performance to IT metrics, incidents, and deployment/launch status
• Ensure IT policies, procedures, and standards are adhered to
• Budget input and tracking (represent plant requirements in AOP planning cycle)
• Responsible for deployment of Dana IT standards for HW, SW, and processes
• Actively participate in all P1/P2 incident calls providing information on plant impact and failure modes; communicate resolution status to plant personnel on a real-time basis and post incident. Participate in post event root cause analysis (as required).
• Ensure facility staff is properly informed on the IT support model (e.g., contacts, phone numbers by area/failure mode); align IT support model with operational patterns including shifts, weekends, shutdown and vacation periods
• Utilize ServiceNow to log, track, and resolve all incidents and requests
• Partner with Deployment teams to assist with in-plant deployment activities (contingent on skill set and workload); assist with coordination of change windows are review/approve all site-specific changes
• Adopt continuous improvement mindset; includes best practice read across and implementation
• Develop a strong working knowledge of the Dana Operating Systems (DOS), and the role of IT in enabling components of the DOS
• Comply to all in-plant safety practices; correct and/or elevate violations or potential gaps in equipment or procedure
• Develop a detailed understanding of plant operations including but not limited to: Manufacturing/Assembly processes and associated metrics, products, customers plants/OEM’s, OT environment and functional knowledge of all IT applications deployed at the site
• Support major roll-out projects of Windows 10/11, Office365, Windows Server environment, annual PC hardware refresh, local area network refresh

Job Position Requirements

Education: Associates or Bachelor’s Degree preferred in a business/technical discipline, related vocational training, or related certification program or equivalent experience of 5+ years related professional experience

Experience: 2-4 years related professional experience

Language Skills

• English B2
• fluency in reading, writing and speaking is a plus

Contract: CCNL Metalmeccanico

Annual G ross Salary: up to 48k€

Certifications: ITIL v3 Foun