Lead OT Engineer – Fuel
$200,000–$275,000 year
On-siteHawthorne, California, United States
Job Summary
Own the fuel lab OT strategy, architecture, and roadmap from design through commissioning and operations. Build, lead, and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team while maintaining hands-on technical authority over reactor SCADA, industrial networking, cybersecurity boundaries, and server room infrastructure. Establish design standards, interface definitions, and acceptance criteria across data systems and historians. Lead design reviews, procurement, vendor selection, and integration for systems integrators, managing scopes of work and technical deliverables. Define configuration management, change control, and lifecycle practices for OT environments. Communicate program risks, staffing needs, and required decisions to engineering leadership. Maintain a strong field presence during construction, commissioning, startup, and incident response.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated ownership of OT or industrial control infrastructure for a complex industrial, power-generation, manufacturing, chemical-processing, or similarly demanding facility
- Experience hiring/managing/developing engineers and building a technical team or function
- Strong working knowledge of industrial networking, compute/virtualization, storage, identity/PKI, historians/data systems, OT cybersecurity, and server room infrastructure
- Experience leading systems through requirements/design/procurement/integration/commissioning/operations
- Ability to review multidisciplinary engineering work, identify material technical risks, and make defensible architecture decisions
- Experience translating technical/regulatory/quality/cybersecurity requirements into designs, acceptance criteria, and verification plans
- Experience managing vendors/contractors/systems integrators and holding them accountable for technical quality/schedule/delivery
- Strong technical writing/visualization skills, including requirements, architecture diagrams, design narratives, procedures, and executive-level communication
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in nuclear energy, conventional power generation, oil & gas, chemical processing, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, or other safety-critical industries
- Experience delivering first-of-a-kind facilities, pilot plants, greenfield industrial sites, or major capital projects
- Experience with Proxmox/Arista/Palo Alto/AVEVA PI/InfluxDB/SQL/Grafana/OPC UA or equivalent technologies
- Experience with air-gapped environments, network segmentation, unidirectional data flows, and OT cybersecurity testing
- Experience building an engineering organization from an initial hands-on leadership role into a larger multidisciplinary team
- Direct experience with Rockwell FactoryTalk, including FactoryTalk View SE/Linx/Historian SE/AssetCentre
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