Director, OT / Manufacturing Cybersecurity Officer

ITSMF; Franklin Lakes (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BD is a leading global medical technology company advancing the world of health through medical discovery, diagnostics, and care delivery. The OT Cybersecurity Officer protects the cybersecurity and operational resilience of BD’s manufacturing and distribution environments, owning strategy, risk, architecture, and governance.

The role collaborates across Manufacturing, Plant Engineering, ISC, Digital, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory to set OT security requirements, prioritize risk reduction, and

Responsibilities

• Own OT cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, target-state architecture, policies, standards, risk thresholds, and governance model.
• Lead cross-functional governance across Cybersecurity, ISC, Plant Engineering, TDS, Digital, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory to drive consistent adoption of OT cybersecurity requirements.
• Own the enterprise OT cyber risk and vulnerability management framework, including prioritization, remediation governance, exceptions, and risk acceptance.
• Translate OT cyber risk into business, operational resilience, patient/product supply, manufacturing impact, and executive-level decisions.
• Own OT cybersecurity architecture and control requirements for manufacturing environments, including segmentation, secure remote access, identity and privileged access, monitoring, vulnerability management, hardening, and recovery.
• Establish cybersecurity requirements for authoritative OT asset, software, network, vulnerability, dependency, and criticality data.
• Drive measurable visibility into connected assets, exposures, blind spots, risk priorities, and remediation progress.
• Provide security leadership for modernization, automation, connected manufacturing, AI, and digital manufacturing initiatives.
• Support internal audit, regulatory assessments, customer requirements, cybersecurity assurance, and site-level adoption of OT security requirements.
• Mature OT cybersecurity from individual projects to a sustainable, measurable global capability across asset visibility, segmentation, vulnerability management, monitoring, secure access, incident response, and cyber recovery.
• Use metrics, threat intelligence, incidents, exercises, and risk data to continuously improve the program and enable secure innovation.
• Build and lead a high-performing, globally distributed OT cybersecurity organization with clear objectives, accountability, succession plans, and career pathways.
• Develop and manage the OT cybersecurity investment portfolio, operating budget, and risk-based business cases.
• Prioritize resources toward areas of greatest operational and cybersecurity risk while fostering partnership, ownership, continuous improvement, inclusion, and safety.

Job description

We are the people who give possibilities purpose

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Job Description

Company Overview
BD is a leading global medical technology company advancing the world of health through medical discovery, diagnostics, and care delivery. Our global manufacturing and distribution network depends on secure, resilient operational technology to deliver products safely, reliably, and at scale. This role is critical to protecting BD’s manufacturing operations while enabling innovation, digital transformation, and operational excellence.

Associate Director/Director, OT Cybersecurity Officer

Job Description Summary

The OT Cybersecurity Officer protects the cybersecurity and operational resilience of BD’s global manufacturing and distribution technology environments. This leader owns OT cybersecurity strategy, risk management, architecture, standards, assurance, and executive visibility into material OT cyber risk.

Working across Manufacturing, Plant Engineering, ISC, TDS, Digital, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory, the role sets OT security requirements, prioritizes risk reduction, and enables secure operations while balancing cybersecurity, safety, quality, product supply, and manufacturing uptime.

Key Responsibilities

OT Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk & Governance

• Own BD’s global OT cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, target-state architecture, policies, standards, risk thresholds, and governance model.

• Lead cross-functional governance across Cybersecurity, ISC, Plant Engineering, TDS, Digital, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory to drive consistent adoption of OT cybersecurity requirements.

• Own the enterprise OT cyber risk and vulnerability management framework, including prioritization, remediation governance, exceptions, and risk acceptance.

• Translate OT cyber risk into business, operational resilience, patient/product supply, manufacturing impact, and executive-level decisions.

OT Security Architecture, Visibility & Exposure Management

• Own OT cybersecurity architecture and control requirements for manufacturing environments, including segmentation, secure remote access, identity and privileged access, monitoring, vulnerability management, hardening, and recovery.

• Establish cybersecurity requirements for authoritative OT asset, software, network, vulnerability, dependency, and criticality data.

• Drive measurable visibility into connected assets, exposures, blind spots, risk priorities, and remediation progress.

• Provide security leadership for modernization, automation, connected manufacturing, AI, and digital manufacturing initiatives.

Assurance, Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Support internal audit, regulatory assessments, customer requirements, cybersecurity assurance, and site-level adoption of OT security requirements.

• Mature OT cybersecurity from individual projects to a sustainable, measurable global capability across asset visibility, segmentation, vulnerability management, monitoring, secure access, incident response, and cyber recovery.

• Use metrics, threat intelligence, incidents, exercises, and risk data to continuously improve the program and enable secure innovation.

People, Investment & Resource Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing, globally distributed OT cybersecurity organization with clear objectives, accountability, succession plans, and career pathways.

• Develop and manage the OT cybersecurity investment portfolio, operating budget, and risk-based business cases.

• Prioritize resources toward areas of greatest operational and cybersecurity risk while fostering partnership, ownership, continuous improvement, inclusion, and safety.

Qualifications