IT Director
Indexed description
The IT Director leads technology strategy, cybersecurity initiatives, infrastructure management, business applications, vendor relationships, and IT staff while ensuring reliable, secure, and cost-effective technology solutions that support WIELAND's business objectives, growth strategy, and construction operations.
Job Functions
Strategic Leadership
- Lead the organization’s digital transformation in the construction industry, identifying and deploying technologies to improve productivity, margins, and competitive differentiation.
- Partner with executive leadership and project teams to translate operational needs into technology roadmaps, budgets and measurable outcomes.
- Define and execute WIELAND’s IT strategy in alignment with corporate business objectives.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the IT Department communicating clear, challenging, and measurable goals.
- Own the IT budget, including capital operating expenditures, license management, and total-cost-of-ownership analysis.
- Develop and maintain an integrated operational backbone that unifies construction management, ERP, CRM, and workforce systems into reliable, accessible enterprise data.
- Evaluate vendor performance and costs to ensure WIELAND secures market-competitive rates, minimizes risks and retains best-in-class partners.
- Manage relationships with service providers, software vendors, telecommunications providers, and cloud service partners.
- Negotiate contracts and service-level agreements that protect WIELAND’s interests and ensure dependable delivery.
- Establish and maintain WIELAND’s cybersecurity posture, policies, controls and incident response plans in support of the organizations risk management practices.
- Implement and sustain compliance with DoD security protocols, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC Level 2, and JCP (Joint Certification Program / DD Form 2345) requirements for controlled and technical data.
- Oversee security awareness training for all employees.
- Lead vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and security audits.
- Serve as the firm’s technical lead for maintaining CMMC Level 2 certification, including continuous control implementation, evidence management, System Security Plan (SSP) and POA&M upkeep, annual affirmations, and readiness for third-party (C3PAO) assessments.
- CUI Handling: responsible for safeguarding Controlled Unclassified Information per NIST SP 800-171 and company policy, including proper access controls, encryption, secure storage/transfer, logging incident reporting and audit readiness.
- Drive system integration and interoperability across platforms to eliminate data silos and create a single, trusted source of enterprise information.
- Oversee the administration and integration into WIELAND’s CM (Construction Management) Software, ensuring field and office workflows are connected and data flows reliably.
- Administer and optimize the SaaS (Software as a Service) environment, including governance, licensing, and reporting/dashboards.
- Oversee and support ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) environments for Finance, HR, and Safety to support integrations, resource planning, and organizational visibility.
- Manage the full lifecycle of company hardware, from procurement and provisioning through retirement.
- Oversee MDM (mobile device management), corporate wireless plans, and connectivity for a distributed, highly mobile workforce.
- Travel to remote project sites when necessary to commission jobsite technology infrastructure for project mobilizations.
- Implement and ensure reliable site connectivity is in place, supporting network hardware in locations with limited or no existing infrastructure.
- Ensure reliable help-desk and end-user support for corporate and field staff.
- Develop and maintain backup/disaster-recovery infrastructure to ensure business continuity, ensure recovery testing is performed regularly.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of all company data and repositories.
- Maintain and display company values and culture.
- Ability to receive methods for improvement or constructive criticism.
- Respects differences and similarities; listens and takes the time to understand the viewpoints of others.
- Fosters an environment of trust.
- Key Performance Indicators are bolded above within the Job Functions*
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
- 10 years of progressive IT experience.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing technology teams.
- Experience managing cybersecurity programs and cloud-based environments.
- Working knowledge of DoD security protocols and federal compliance frameworks including NIST SP 800-171, CMMC Level 2, and the Joint Certification Program (DD Form 2345), with demonstrated experience maintaining or achieving CMMC Level 2 certification.
- Willingness and ability to travel to jobsites approximately 25–40% of the time.
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