Specialist Operational Technology

About the role

The OT Specialist owns the technology layer connecting shop floor equipment to plant and enterprise systems. The role designs, implements and sustains reliable, secure and well-documented data acquisition and control integration across manufacturing lines, enabling MES, historian, analytics and quality systems with trustworthy, real-time production data. This is a hands-on engineering role combined with standards-setting and mentoring responsibility for plant teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure and deploy shop floor connectivity between manufacturing equipment and IT and OT systems.
• Configure and program Ignition tag architecture, device connections and drivers, UDTs, Python scripting, Perspective and Vision screens, alarming, gateway networks, redundancy and version control.
• Configure Canary Labs historian architecture and sizing, tag onboarding and naming conventions, data collection and storage policies, retention, views and trends, and downstream data publishing.
• Specify sensors, gateways, edge devices, remote I/O, network hardware and protocol converters for data acquisition needs.
• Work with OPC UA / DA, MQTT and Sparkplug B, Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, serial, and file- or database-based interfaces.
• Create, publish and maintain OT standards for tag naming, device onboarding, network topology, edge architecture, backup and recovery, and change control.
• Maintain as-built architecture diagrams, network drawings, I/O and interface registers, configuration baselines, SOPs and runbooks.
• Drive continuous improvement of the OT estate.

Requirements

The role requires designing and implementing shop floor to IT/OT communications and producing and maintaining OT standards and documentation.

How to apply

Apply directly on CazVid.

Key facts

• The role connects shop floor equipment to plant and enterprise systems.
• The role includes Ignition configuration and programming.
• The role includes Canary Labs historian configuration.
• The OT Specialist creates and maintains OT standards and documentation.