Principal Lead, Plant OT Network Engineering - Hybrid

Toyota Tsusho Systems Corporation; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Toyota Tsusho Systems US is seeking a hands-on Principal Lead – Plant OT Network Engineering to standardize and elevate OT network services across multiple manufacturing plants. You will coordinate cross-site activities, provide technical guidance, and manage performance metrics with plant engineers and IT/OT stakeholders.

Reporting to the Network Leader, you will mentor engineers, lead performance reviews, and support major outages with on-site coverage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years progressive network engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading technical teams, including senior engineers.
• Experience supporting OT/industrial networks.
• Familiarity with OT cybersecurity, IDMZ, and segmentation strategies.
• Strong expertise in enterprise networking and secure design.
• Experience managing network services across multiple sites with KPIs and reporting.
• Proven ability to collaborate across IT, OT, and manufacturing teams.
• Experience troubleshooting complex issues in high-availability environments.
• Ability to communicate incident status and business impact to customer leadership.
• Demonstrated mentoring and accountability leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and coaching for plant OT engineers.
• Integrate plant network services into a standardized, cross-site model.
• Support cross-plant technical decisions and OT standards.
• Provide escalation support on complex issues, designs, and changes.
• Advise Network Leaders on priorities, risks, and direction.
• Manage performance, KPIs, workload, and backlog for plant networks.
• Lead regular status meetings with plant OT network engineers.
• Provide on-site backup during critical cutovers and incidents.
• Define and improve outage response and maintenance procedures.
• Act as primary communication point for multi-plant incidents.
• Build relationships with site stakeholders and bridge IT/OT for delivery.
• Translate business requirements into practical network designs.
• Oversee multi-site project delivery and production support.
• Participate in hiring and development for plant OT network engineers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-site coordination

OT network engineering

Enterprise networking

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelors in EE/CE/CS

Tools

Cisco SD-Access

Catalyst Center

ISE

ACI

SD-WAN

Firewalls

Job description

Toyota Tsusho Systems US is seeking a hands-on Principal Lead – Plant OT Network Engineering to standardize and elevate OT network services across multiple manufacturing plants. You will coordinate cross-site activities, provide technical guidance, and manage performance metrics with plant engineers and IT/OT stakeholders.

Reporting to the Network Leader, you will mentor engineers, lead performance reviews, and support major outages with on-site coverage.