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2054 - Supervisor - Minneapolis, MN

Team or Tech Lead who wants to become a Supervisor.

Company overview:

Connexus is an electrical distribution company with 130,000 members. They have a healthy revenue stream. Their members think very highly of Connexus. There are 250 employees. Company sell points:

• Will have an impact on the company.
• Good work – life balance
• Family culture
• Strong collaboration in their culture. Must be able to get along with people.
• Modern corporate campus
• Consistency of tenure of organization. Most are 17 years plus so are subject matter experts.
• Broad exposure touching all aspects of the business

Beneftis:

• Retirement plans are 10% of salary
• PTO: 120 hours which is 3 weeks.
• 10 paid holidays
• Very good medical benefits

Projects the next two years:

Project 1: In the process of replacing 150,000 piecses of equipment to equipment with two-way communication meters. New system will be their step into big data. They will be creating a data warehouse.

Project 2: Interval data which consist of things like texting critical information to customers.

Project 3: Major upgrades to Microsoft package

Project 4: They put in service bus using biztalk. They just implemented biztalk.

Technical environment:

• It is a Microsoft Dynamics Package on SQL server.   Other technical things include: Harris Utilities, Harris CRM. They put in Microsoft Dynamics in 2013 from Oracle.
• One data center
• No off-shoring

Organization Structure:

• Reports to IT Manager who reports to the CFO or reports to the CEO
• This supervisor position will have 7 direct reports of BA and Developers
• There are NO contractors and NO off shore IT.

IT Department:

Total IT personnel is 20 people:

• 7 in applications. Seasoned people.
• Rest are in help desk and network support functions. Seasoned people.
• Have one very strong Project Manager.

IT Manager leadership style:

• Very hands off. Hands on where the person needs or wants growth.

This Supervisor position will have 7 direct reports.

The position is a replacement. The person who was in the position decided after 5 years that he wanted to be analyst not a supervisor. So, Connexus granted his request to move back into an analyst position.

Top four requirements want candidate to have:

1. Solid technical aptitude and BA skills. Seasoned BA skills.
2. Some type of supervision even if not formal. Could be team/tech lead ready for the next step of managerial things like performance reviews etc.  
3. Someone who has worked with package software and SDLC.
4. Seasoned: 10 plus years of IT experience.