Job description
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
DetailsOriginally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.