Enterprise Infrastructure Project Manager

Seneca Foods is one of North America's leading providers of packaged fruits and vegetables with facilities located throughout the United States.  Our high quality products are primarily sourced from over 1,400 American farms. Seneca holds the largest share of the retail private label, food service, and export canned vegetable markets, distributing to over 90 countries. Products are also sold under the brands of Libby’s®, Aunt Nellie’s®, READ®, Seneca Farms®, Green Valley®, Green Giant®, CherryMan®, Paradise®, Pennant®, and Seneca labels, including Seneca snack chips. Seneca also provides vegetable products to other companies under various co-pack arrangements.

Seneca Foods offers an excellent benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, 401K, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Paid Time Off and more!  Help us make our Farm Fresh Goodness Great!  Come join the Seneca Foods team – Apply now!

Seneca Foods Corporation is seeking an Enterprise Infrastructure Project Manager to join the Information Technology department at the Corporate office in Fairport, NY. The Enterprise Infrastructure Project Manager is responsible for planning, governing, coordinating, and delivering complex enterprise technology infrastructure initiatives from concept through implementation, stabilization, and operational handoff. The role serves as the primary project-management interface between leadership, IT infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, applications, vendors, and contractors. As a leader, take initiative to work collaboratively with the teams. Establishes positive working relationships across the organization.

The position oversees projects involving enterprise networking, data centers, servers, and infrastructure, wireless, telecommunications, identity and access infrastructure, endpoint platforms, storage, backup/disaster recovery, monitoring, IT service management, facilities technology, and infrastructure modernization.

Essential Functions:

• Own the complete project lifecycle: initiation, business case, requirements, planning, execution, testing, deployment, stabilization, closure, and lessons learned.
• Develop integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, milestones, resources, dependencies, budget, procurement, risk, quality, communications, and transition to operations.
• Lead enterprise infrastructure projects such as LAN/WAN modernization, data-center upgrades, wireless deployments, firewall/security infrastructure, server and storage refreshes, cloud migrations, virtualization, backup/DR, telecommunications, and infrastructure consolidation.
• Translate business objectives and executive priorities into measurable technical project outcomes, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and implementation roadmaps.
• Coordinate cross-functional engineering teams including network, systems, cloud, cybersecurity, identity, unified communications, service desk, architecture, facilities, and application teams.
• Manage third-party vendors, managed service providers, systems integrators, contractors, and professional-services resources.
• Identify technical, operational, schedule, security, vendor, supply-chain, financial, and business-continuity risks and develop mitigation/contingency plans
• Ensure project deliverables satisfy enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, compliance, resiliency, documentation, and operational standards.
• Lead implementation readiness reviews, cutover planning, , and operational handoff.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences
• Facilitate issue resolution and executive escalation while maintaining accountability for decisions, actions, and deadlines.
• Lead post-implementation reviews and convert lessons learned into repeatable standards and process improvements.
• Engage as Tier 3 engineering support for Networking, Integrated Systems, security and infrastructure as needed.

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Layer 2/3 networking, routing, and switching.
• Enterprise LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, Internet, VPN, and network-core modernization.
• Strong understanding of Firewalls. Preferably Palo Alto
• Campus and warehouse wireless deployments, including high-density and industrial environments
• Data-center buildouts, migrations, consolidations, and technology refreshes
• Server, virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster-recovery initiatives
• Network security, segmentation projects
• Microsoft/Windows/Linux infrastructure modernization
• IT monitoring, observability, configuration management, and automation
• Technology refreshes, lifecycle replacement, asset rationalization, and technical debt reduction
• Business continuity, resiliency, disaster recovery, and high-availability initiatives
• Multi-site infrastructure standardization and enterprise rollout programs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and organizational skills
• BS in Computer Science or Business Management or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 6 – 10 years related experience.
• Networking: Ethernet, TCP/IP, routing/switching, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, firewalls, load balancing, NA

Preferred Technical Experience:

• Platforms: Windows Server, Linux, virtualization, storage, backup, monitoring
• Security: IAM, MFA, SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, segmentation, zero trust
• Data center: racks, power, UPS, cooling, cabling, structured cabling, physical security
• Reporting: Microsoft Office 365, Power BI or equivalent project/portfolio dashboards

This is an on-site position at our Corporate office in Fairport, NY.

Wage range based on skills, abilities, and experience from $140k - $150k annual salary.

Seneca Foods Corporation is committed to providing equal opportunity for all, through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. No employee or applicant will be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, military and/or veteran status or any other Federal or State legally protected classes. Seneca Foods Corporation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and feel you need a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact us at ADA@senecafoods.com or call 585-495-4100.