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Our advanced materials are used in nearly every industry and touch every aspect of modern life. Wherever you work, live or travel, chances are an H&V solution is close by, contributing to a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable world. H&V serves the world from 13 strategically located facilities. Our footprint in the Americas, Europe and Asia lets us meet the unique requirements of global and regional customers efficiently, accurately and cost effectively, while capturing supply chain efficiencies. These advantages help make H&V a valuable partner and a true worldwide leader. Our success comes from our ability to adapt, our values and the people of H&V. We act with integrity, and we treat customers, partners and each other with dignity and respect. We live these values every day and could not have prospered for more than 200 years without them.\nRole Purpose\nOur IT mission is to ensure technology genuinely empowers H&V to create a cleaner world-and the network is what carries that mission between every site, system, and person. When it works, no one thinks about it. When it doesn’t, a plant can’t reach the ERP, a mill drops off monitoring, and the business feels it. The network you help run underpins nearly everything H&V does.\nAs a Network Engineer, you’re the hands that keep the network running and growing. You deploy and configure the switches, firewalls, wireless, and connectivity our sites depend on-working to the standards and designs set by the senior engineering team, and contributing your own ideas where they help. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role: you’ll spend your days deploying hardware, making changes, resolving issues, and keeping the network healthy across H&V’s mills and offices. A central part of the role is deploying next-generation firewalls across our OT (operational technology) sites-hands-on project work that directly shapes how we protect production. You’ll grow under the guidance of senior engineers, and throughout you put the customer first: success is measured by whether the business can rely on the network you help build.\nKey Responsibilities\nNetwork Deployment & Engineering\nYou deploy and configure network hardware-switches, routers, and wireless access points-installed cleanly, configured to standard, and documented.\nYou make the day-to-day changes: VLANs, port configuration and security, and switch and routing updates, executed carefully and with change discipline.\nYou keep campus switching and wireless coverage holding up in industrial environments-not just conference rooms-and the wiring closet organized and documented.\nYou work to the designs and standards set by the senior engineering team, and you contribute to design where your hands-on perspective helps.\nYou troubleshoot connectivity issues from the physical layer up, and when something is beyond your depth you escalate with good information-after you’ve dug in, not before.\nOT Firewall Deployment\nYou’re hands-on in deploying next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto) across H&V’s OT sites-staging, installing, cabling, configuring to the approved design, and validating cutover.\nYou partner with the OT Engineering team and senior network engineers to roll these out without disrupting production-OT environments can’t just be rebooted, and you plan your work accordingly.\nYou document each deployment so the next site goes faster and the estate stays consistent.\nWAN, Connectivity & Firewalls\nOur MSP monitors the WAN day to day. When they escalate to check on-site conditions-a link, a device, a wiring closet-you make sure the question gets answered: handling it yourself, or coordinating someone on the field team to be your eyes and hands at the site.\nYou support the wide-area network-SD-WAN (Cato SASE), MPLS, and VPN-working tickets and escalations through to resolution.\nYou test HA failover on firewall pairs and redundant paths so the redundancy actually works when it’s needed. Redundancy you’ve never failed over to is a hope, not a plan.\nYou implement firewall changes to approved, scoped requests-specific sources, destinations, and ports, documented-so “allow” is always deliberate, never any/any.\nYou help maintain segmentation and apply security standards as they’re designed.\nUPS, Power & Environmental\nYou ensure UPS units across sites are monitored and maintained-batteries replaced on schedule and alerts configured, so a failing unit is known before it drops a load.\nYou keep an eye on the power and environmental conditions the network gear depends on, and you flag risks before they take a closet down.\nMonitoring, Documentation & Backups\nYou monitor the network for faults and alerts, and you investigate them rather than just clearing them.\nYou keep documentation and inventory current-topology, addressing, and device records that match reality.\nYou back up device configurations so any device can be rebuilt. A config that only lives on the device is a config you’ll eventually lose.\nPrivileged & Secure Access\nYou work within the Privileged Access Management (PAM) model-admin credentials come from the vault, MFA is on, and you don’t keep standing admin rights or local copies of passwords.\nYou help enroll new network and security devices into PAM as they’re deployed.\nTools, Automation & AI\nYou use scripts and vendor tools to make repetitive work faster and less error-prone, and you lean on AI assistants in your day-to-day to work more effectively.\nYou bring curiosity for doing things better-not just clearing the queue.\nVendor & Carrier Coordination\nYou coordinate with carriers, vendors, and MSPs on deployments and support tickets-holding them to what was promised and escalating when they don’t deliver.\nHow You Work\nYou solve the customer’s problem, not just the ticket-you ask what they’re actually trying to accomplish before reaching for a fix.\nYou look for what can be done, not why it can’t-and when the answer is no, you bring an alternative or escalate.\nYou communicate clearly across audiences-the infrastructure team, the wider IT organization, and the business. People hear from you early and often, especially when things are hard, and you translate technical status into what each audience actually needs to know.\nYou ask questions and learn fast. You’re growing into a senior engineer, and you treat feedback as fuel.\nWhat You Own\nClean deployments - hardware installed, configured to standard, and documented.\nChanges made carefully, with the change process followed and nothing left half-done.\nUPS and power monitoring kept current, so a dead battery never takes a site by surprise.\nAccurate documentation and device configuration backups.\nTickets and issues driven to resolution, with clear escalation when you need it.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nRequired\nUS citizen or Green Card holder.\n3+ years of hands-on network experience, or strong fundamentals paired with a relevant certification.\nSolid working knowledge of switching and VLANs, plus practical routing fundamentals.\nHands-on experience deploying and configuring network hardware-switches, access points, and firewalls.\nComfortable making network changes carefully and following a change process.\nFamiliarity with firewalls (Palo Alto a plus) and core network security concepts.\nWilling and able to travel to H&V sites for deployments-including the OT firewall rollout-and to participate in an after-hours/on-call rotation.\nCustomer-first mindset and a genuine willingness to learn and grow.\nStrong communicator-you can keep the infrastructure team, the wider IT organization, and business stakeholders clearly informed, in terms that fit each audience.\nWorking comfort with AI tools in day-to-day work.\nPreferred\nCCNA (or actively working toward it); CCNP a bonus.\nExposure to our stack-Cato SASE and Palo Alto NGFW-or close equivalents.\nExperience in manufacturing, OT/industrial, or distributed site environments.\nFamiliarity with UPS/power monitoring and structured cabling.\nBachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience.\nHollingsworth & Vose is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.\nStarting at $100,000\nHollingsworth & Vose is an equal opportunity employer. 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