Network Administrator

Patrick Industries, a publicly traded company headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, invites you to join a team of dedicated Team Members who are passionate about delivering high-quality products and exceptional customer service. As a leading solutions provider serving a diverse range of markets across the United States, our commitment to innovation, quality, and sustainability has positioned us as a high growth, diversified and empowered Team of more than 10,000! Your adventure awaits!

The Network Administrator holds a critical position that requires the ability to effectively multitask and handle multiple projects at the same time. In this role, you will work to maintain and improve the company’s hardware, network, and other computing equipment with an emphasis on ensuring the reliability and security of the system at all times. Strong analytical skills are required as well as the ability to think creatively to find solutions for issues that arise.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Maintains and creates technical documents and knowledge base information; documenting actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records
• Perform onsite visits to perform deployments, enhancements, and maintenance
• Research, plan, install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade network hardware and wiring
• Upgrades information systems by conferring with vendors and services; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements and new hardware/software
• Monitoring the systems performance and undertake maintenance and upgrades as required.
• Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations
• Provide staff and users with assistance solving computer related problems, such as malfunctions and program problems
• Assist in establishing standards for information systems procedures
• Secures information systems by developing system access, monitoring, control, and evaluation as well as completing back-ups
• Works with business units to select, implement, and maintain systems relevant to the operations of the company
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
• Work effectively and independently on multiple complex activities and projects

Qualifications and Skills:

• The candidate must have at least 5 years of experience with supporting systems, industry certifications are a plus
• Experience with multi-site networks are desired
• Juniper, HP, and Aruba switch and access point experience (certification preferred)
• Experience managing a medium/large network (700+ AP’s, 300 Switches, 100 Routers)
• TCP/IP Network Design
• Wireless Network
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Candidates must have the ability to work in a different environments including office and manufacturing facilities that may be hot, dust filled and
• Ability to communicate with all levels of an organization
• Self-starter
• Align with Patrick Industries “BETTER Together” mentality by pursuing Balance, Excellence, Trust, Teamwork, Empowerment, and Respect within the organization

At Patrick Industries, BETTER Together is our commitment to being our best while striving to bring out the best in one another as we join forces Individually, as Teams, with our Business Units, with our Customers, our Communities and within our entire Patrick family.

Patrick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.