Lead Engineer – OT Cyber Security

• Advise clients and promote, develop and implement cyber security solutions for industrial control systems in the energy and materials industries.

• Conduct cybersecurity gap assessments as per NIST or ISA 27001 & ISA/IEC-62443 framework.

• Consult clients on their OT Cybersecurity Resilience roadmap development and implementation.

• Support the growth, development and delivery performance across projects in Industrial Cybersecurity and digital solutions.

• Support development and delivery of business plans in support of Digital Integration business growth, in line with Wood’s strategy.

• Consult on solutions to strategic, contractual, technical, commercial, operational and personnel related challenges which impact on customer service and performance.

• Keep yourself apprised to technical practice, standards and threat trends impacting ICS Cybersecurity.

• Promote ICS Cybersecurity practice and principles within the organization.

• Support Business Development with presentations, estimates, proposal responses

• Build practice knowledge base and resources within the organization.

• Represent Wood in the professional community by attending industry forums, publishing white papers and participating in professional organization committees as a subject matter expert maintaining contact with key customers and potential customers.

• Accountable for maintaining relationships with strategic/key clients (together with Growth & Development) and execution partners and supporting the development of new relationships in line with Wood’s strategy.

• Implement Industrial Cyber Security solutions including:

• • Facilitating client meetings
• • Engaging with client stakeholders including Operations and IT
• • Managing technical interfaces with 3rd parties e.g., control system vendors
• • Conduct cyber security assessments
• • Preparing execution plans including consideration of operational constraints and technical assurance
• • Specifying, selecting, configuring and testing material and equipment
• • Supporting project teams in solution delivery
• • Commissioning equipment at client facility
• • Managing technical and commercial change
• • Delivering to budget and schedule targets

The primary responsibilities for this role for the Lead Cyber Security Engineer are:

• OT cyber security technical leadership and standards compliance

• Provide leadership to standardizing project execution / workflow across regions.

• Maintain personal competency, expertise and certification in OT Cybersecurity standards, practices, and technology; inform the organization, provide training on identified trends.

• Technical and business representation of relevant solutions in conferences and/or lead Product webinars, Industry Panels, whitepapers and publications.

• Provide IT/OT risk support for proposal development and costing activities.

• Supporting development and implementation of Cybersecurity strategy and initiatives for the Digital Integration group and aligning them to the evolving threat landscape.

• Supporting analysis of the competitive landscape to determine strengths and weaknesses of our services/solutions and that of our partners to contribute to the business roadmap.

• Supporting business in growth targets set for the Digital Integration group.

• Be a champion and role model for ethical behaviour and compliance with applicable laws and policies.

Skills / Experience

Essential:

• 10 plus years’ experience in similar role.

• Multi sector knowledge and global project experience in relevant areas.

• Demonstrated experience in IT/OT cybersecurity management systems, risk assessments, risk mitigation as well as application of reference architectures and frameworks in an industrial automation environment.

• Hands-on experience specifying, selecting, and implementing industrial firewalls, backup and recovery solutions as well as deploying security solutions, network capture and analysis, patch updates.

• Hands-on experience configuring and deploying industry leading switch, router, firewall and network equipment.

• Exposure to different control system vendors and industrial networking equipment.

• Hands on experience of using cybersecurity tools.

• Identifying, defining, and solving client problems.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proposal / projects costing experience.

• Strong understanding of plant operations and digital twin solution architectures.

  Qualifications

  Essential:

  • Minimum degree-level qualification in engineering, science, computer science or mathematics.

  • Relevant IEC/ISA, GICSP or similar certification.