Hiring: VP of IT Company: Form Energy Location: Weirton, WV Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 14:22:52 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Manufacturing Execution Systems, Product Lifecycle Management, R, SOC 2 About the job Experience: •15+ years in IT with progressive leadership, including senior leadership (VP-level or equivalent) of a multi-function IT organization. Required Skills: •Set and execute the enterprise IT strategy and multi-year roadmap — aligning infrastructure, enterprise platforms, cybersecurity, and IT GRC to the company’s growth across research, engineering, and manufacturing. •Lead and develop the IT organization through three directors — IT Engineering & Platforms, IT Operations, and Cybersecurity & GRC — including responsibility for hiring the director-level leaders and shaping the teams beneath them. •Build a lean, excellence-over-headcount IT organization — delivering reliability and service at scale with a disciplined team rather than growth-by-hiring. •Serve as the executive owner of the IT controls environment as the company matures — accountable for IT general controls (access, change, operations) to SOX standards, and for a control framework synergistic across SOX ITGC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST 800-171 / CMMC as the business requires. •Sponsor the relationship with external auditors and readiness advisors, driving audit readiness and remediation to closure through the Cybersecurity & GRC organization. •Own the enterprise cybersecurity program at the executive level — detection and response, identity and access, vulnerability management, and incident response — and the cyber incident-disclosure and materiality-determination governance in partnership with Legal, Finance, and executive leadership. •Scale IT for high-growth manufacturing — ensuring infrastructure, networks, endpoints, and enterprise systems keep pace with new capacity, multi-shift operations, and site build-outs, and partnering with manufacturing controls teams on the secure IT/OT boundary (without owning operational technology). •Direct the enterprise platform and integration portfolio (collaboration tools, business applications, integration, and automation) and the enablement of enterprise business systems (ERP, PLM, MES) through integration and automation. Qualifications: •Demonstrated success leading IT in a high-growth manufacturing, hardware, or industrial company — scaling infrastructure, systems, and teams to keep pace with rapid operational growth. •Deep experience operating IT in a compliance-intensive environment — owning SOX IT general controls and the broader controls environment, and standing up or maturing a first-time formal controls program as a company scales. •Executive command of cybersecurity and IT risk — able to set strategy and hold accountability for the security program and incident and disclosure governance. •Demonstrated ability to attract, build, and retain extraordinary talent, and to hold a consistently high bar for performance expectations across the team — developing leaders and raising the caliber of the organization over time. •A track record of building lean, metrics-driven, audit-ready IT operations with high service levels across multiple sites. •Strong vendor and budget management. •Executive-grade communication and a hands-on, pragmatic style suited to a fast-paced hardware and manufacturing environment. •Operational familiarity with the IT/OT boundary in a manufacturing setting. •Breadth across enterprise platforms (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Atlassian), enterprise business systems (ERP, PLM), identity, and cloud. •Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISA, PMP, ITIL, Microsoft / cloud) or equivalent demonstrated expertise. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!