OT Engineer - (FOOD)

​​In this role, together with the OT team, you are jointly responsible for ensuring the business continuity of the site by ensuring the availability and reliability of site OT and mitigating risks related to cybersecurity and obsolescence threats; In addition, the team is responsible for the site's OT architecture and ensures that changes to the architecture are aligned with business and site standards and can be embedded in and maintained by the existing OT maintenance organization.

Your responsibilities also includes :

• Responsible for the effectiveness, improvement, and safeguarding of automated business processes, including ensuring the correct long-term vision regarding automation;
• Troubleshooting and analysis in the event of complex problems / malfunctions in the hardware and software of the automation (such as client / server / hosting / network / PLC / SCADA / HMI / MES);
• Being and staying up to date with new technologies in the field of automation;
• Central point of contact, both internal and external, for and advisory in the field of automation;
• You apply lifecycle management to the OT asset register;
• You are responsible for software change management and keeping changes & modifications up to date (change control);
• You are jointly responsible for the implementation of our ITIL procedures;
• Another important part of your role is optimizing our cybersecurity. This is an increasingly important aspect within the OT domain nowadays;
• The OT department consists of a team of 2 specialists who are jointly responsible for the entire OT landscape. They work closely with mechanics, the project manager, and the Technical Department staff. The OT engineers report directly to the Maintenance Manager;