Global OT Cybersecurity Leader — Strategy & Resilience

Cybersecurity Jobs; Franklin Lakes (NJ); On-site; USD 192,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Medical coverage

Dental and Vision coverage

Life and AD&D insurance

401(k) Plan

Job summary

Cybersecurity Jobs is hiring an OT Cybersecurity Officer to safeguard the global manufacturing and distribution technology environment. This onsite role in Franklin Lakes, NJ offers executive visibility into OT risk and leads strategy, governance, and assurance across architecture and operations.

You will shape a measurable global OT cybersecurity capability, align assets and exposures with business priorities, and drive modernization across manufacturing, automation, AI, and digital

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience across cybersecurity and OT/ICS security.
• Experience securing industrial, manufacturing, ICs, or OT environments in a complex global organization.
• Ability to translate OT risk into business impact, priorities, and action.

Responsibilities

• Own global OT cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, and governance.
• 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 impact, operational resilience, patient and product supply considerations, 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 data covering assets, software, network, vulnerabilities, dependencies, and criticality.
• Drive measurable visibility into connected assets, exposures, blind spots, risk priorities, and remediation progress.
• Provide security leadership for modernization and automation, including 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 into 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, including 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 with the greatest operational and cybersecurity risk while fostering partnership, ownership, continuous improvement, inclusion, and safety.

Skills

OT/ICS security

Cybersecurity risk management

Executive communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

MBA, MS, or equivalent

Job description

Cybersecurity Jobs is hiring an OT Cybersecurity Officer to safeguard the global manufacturing and distribution technology environment. This onsite role in Franklin Lakes, NJ offers executive visibility into OT risk and leads strategy, governance, and assurance across architecture and operations.

You will shape a measurable global OT cybersecurity capability, align assets and exposures with business priorities, and drive modernization across manufacturing, automation, AI, and digital