About the role
Category: Manufacturing
Location:
Manufacturing organizations need OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineertalent for securing OT/ICS environments, improving industrial networkresilience, and reducing plant-floor cyber risk. TalentXM should position thisrole as a practical revenue-generating bench profile for clients modernizingplants, operations, data, AI, OT/IT, and integration programs.
WHAT THE CONSULTANT WILL DO
* Assess OT/ICS environments,network segmentation, remote access, asset inventory, and plant-floor securitygaps. * Apply IEC 62443, ISA-95, PurdueModel, and NIST-aligned controls to manufacturing environments. * Partner with plant engineering,IT security, controls, networking, and operations teams. * Review SCADA, PLC, historian,HMI, OPC-UA, and industrial protocol exposure risks. * Support secure architecture,risk remediation, incident response readiness, and audit documentation. * Communicate risk in businessterms for plant leaders and executives.
MOST IN-DEMAND SKILLS TOHIGHLIGHT
LinkedInRecruiter skills to add while posting:OT Security;ICS Security; Industrial Control Systems; IEC 62443; OPC UA; SCADA; PurdueModel; ISA-95; MQTT; Network Segmentation.
Skill / Technology
Score
Demand Label
Category
OPC-UA
100
Very High Demand
OT/Integration
ISA-95 / Purdue Model
93
Very High Demand
OT/Architecture
Industrial Cybersecurity (IEC 62443)
93
Very High Demand
OT/Security
MQTT / Sparkplug B
91
Very High Demand
OT/Integration
SCADA (Ignition / FactoryTalk / WinCC)
84
High Demand
OT
Kepware / Ignition / Wonderware
84
High Demand
OT/Integration
PLC (Siemens TIA, Rockwell Studio 5000)
75
Core Demand
OT/Controls
OT Field Protocols (Modbus/Profibus/EtherNet-IP)
74
Core Demand
OT/Integration
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Hands-on or stronglydemonstrable experience with: OPC-UA, ISA-95 / Purdue Model, IndustrialCybersecurity (IEC 62443), MQTT / Sparkplug B, SCADA (Ignition / FactoryTalk /WinCC), Kepware / Ignition / Wonderware. * Hands-on experience inmanufacturing, industrial, supply chain, operations technology, or enterprisetransformation environments. * Ability to work with bothbusiness stakeholders and technical teams across OT and IT boundaries. * Strong documentation,troubleshooting, testing, communication, and delivery ownership. * Experience supportingimplementation, integration, support, rollout, upgrade, or productiondeployment projects. * Comfortable in remote, hybrid,and plant-facing delivery models depending on client needs.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Familiarity with plant-floorconstraints, industrial networks, safety, uptime, and change-controlexpectations. * Experience with regulated orquality-sensitive manufacturing such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices,food and beverage, packaging, chemicals, or electronics. * Experience working with globalteams, offshore/nearshore delivery, and client-facing consulting environments. * Exposure to Agile, Jira, AzureDevOps, ServiceNow, SOP documentation, runbooks, and production support models.
BEST-FIT ALTERNATE TITLES
·OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer
·OT Security Engineer
·ICS Security Consultant
·Industrial CybersecurityEngineer
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