Smart Factory Process Director
The role of Smart Factory Process Director involves designing, implementing, and standardizing connectivity between production equipment and digital solutions.
This includes creating and enforcing OT architecture standards, protocols, and best practices across all sites and business units, owning and maintaining the asset inventory and lifecycle management of OT Assets, ensuring all OT systems comply with internal policies, cybersecurity frameworks, and regulatory requirements, and partnering with IT, Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Operations teams to align OT strategies with enterprise goals.
The selected candidate will be responsible for conducting FAT/SAT to confirm performance, safety, and cyber-security compliance, collaborating with Cybersecurity team to ensure OT assets cybersecurity practices and policies are implemented, resolving connectivity or protocol issues quickly during installation and ongoing operations to minimize downtime, producing reusable templates and reference architectures for faster rollouts, and leading change initiatives and training programs to promote adoption and value realization of Smart Factory Initiatives including OT standards across the organization.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced individual to join our organization and play a key role in shaping our OT strategy and driving business growth.
To succeed in this role, you will need to have 10+ years of experience in industrial automation, controls, or electrical/PLC integration, with a degree in Computer Science, Computer, Mechanical, Industrial, Chemical, or other Engineering background. You should also have hands-on experience connecting machines to plants, working knowledge of industrial networking and basic cybersecurity standards, troubleshooting mindset, and willingness to travel to manufacturing sites.