Technical Leader - Operational Technology

Technical Leader - Operational Technology

Job Description

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.  

This role will provide technical leadership and subject-matter expertise in the OT hardware and infrastructure to lead overall optimization through application of technology, implementation of best practice standards, building capability within the salary & hourly teams, and driving cost savings programs within the Mill.

In this role, you will:


* Be the site point person for the OT Support Center (OTSC) and coordinate communication from the OTSC to site engineers, technicians, and mill leadership (drive ownership down to asset engineer level – educate & delegate)


* Deployment and on-going support of OTbase, a tool and platform that is used for the asset management of the OT environment.

Requires training others and is the point person for raising issues back to OTSC


* Participates in project reviews and sets direction and ensures that appropriate resources are involved (i.e., DTS/MOSAIC and mill engineers)


* Infrastructure planning for key upgrades, thinking longer-term benefits and aligning technology solutions, consistent with sector & regional standards


* Security / training – educating mill resources and ensuring compliance with cyber security standards and policies, including on-boarding of new EEs, electrical or instrument reliability techs


* MOSAIC infrastructure obsolescence / asset management (the controls portion would be the mill capital vs.

the infrastructure would need to be driven from the OT side working in conjunction)


* Keep connected with industrial automation control systems and the impact to the OT environment (drives, controllers, electrical devices, safety systems, power distribution, etc.) - Aligning to standards for implementation


* Locate existing, internal or external, or novel technology solutions for process and product needs 3 – 5 years from commercialization that enable realization of business unit strategies.

Recommend strategies to protect novel technology solutions to sustain identified advantage in market.


* Apply engineering principles, standards and procedures in the execution of projects and programs to advance process innovation.


* Support Lean Six Sigma methodology through mentoring of candidates, as well as preference to either be LSS black belt certified or actively working towards certification.

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