OT Platform Engineer — Ignition Deployment & Support

Lear Corporation; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lear For You, part of Lear Corporation, seeks a Regional Support and Ignition engineer to develop, deploy, and support OT applications across manufacturing operations. You will work with plant controls engineers, regional teams, and system integrators to maintain Ignition solutions and enable plant staff globally.

The role blends hands-on development with deployment support, troubleshooting, documentation, and training to drive reliable OT platforms. Travel up to 50% globally is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of OT, industrial automation, manufacturing systems, controls engineering, or related discipline.
• 2+ years in people leadership, project leadership, or program leadership.
• Experience coordinating manufacturing technology programs, deployment readiness, or governance processes.
• Strong understanding of industrial automation, OT cybersecurity, industrial networking, and manufacturing operations.
• Ability to lead cross-functional reviews and resolve competing business needs.

Responsibilities

• Translate the OT roadmap into coordinated program plans, priorities, dependencies, and measures of progress.
• Coordinate development, review, and adoption of OT standards and procedures with technical owners.
• Lead program readiness and governance reviews; coordinate design reviews with the Sr. IT-OT Architect.
• Manage, coach, and prioritize work for the program enablement engineer.
• Coordinate solution evaluations against manufacturing needs, standards, deployment readiness, and supportability.
• Coordinate IT, OT, networking, and cybersecurity requirements without changing ownership.

Skills

OT engineering

Industrial automation

Project leadership

Program governance

Cross-functional communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing Technology, IT, CS or related

Tools

Ignition

MQTT

Unified Namespace (UNS)

Job description

Lear For You, part of Lear Corporation, seeks a Regional Support and Ignition engineer to develop, deploy, and support OT applications across manufacturing operations. You will work with plant controls engineers, regional teams, and system integrators to maintain Ignition solutions and enable plant staff globally.

The role blends hands-on development with deployment support, troubleshooting, documentation, and training to drive reliable OT platforms. Travel up to 50% globally is required.