Regional OT Cybersecurity Lead

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Regional OT Cybersecurity Lead

About the job:

Nouryon’s Houston, TX location is looking for top candidates to fill the key role of Regional OT Cybersecurity Lead. This position is essential to:

Developing, supporting, and executing cyber security initiatives to protect Nouryon’s production locations in North & South America.

In your future role as a Regional OT Cybersecurity Lead, you will:

• Support, orchestrate, and train, on-site engineers and cyber security representatives on applicable cyber security measures in all production sites located in North and South America.
• Build great relationships and partnerships with site engineers and other stakeholders.
• Drive remediation activities and projects.
• Write and provide input to technical cyber security standards for industrial control systems.
• Apply and coordinate adherence to Nouryon’s OT cyber security standard and other cyber security policies.
• Identify and report on current cyber security risks and evaluate the cyber security maturity level of production sites.

We Believe You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, industrial automation or other related field or equivalent professional experience.
• OT cyber security certifications such as GICSP, GIAC or GRID are a plus.
• Certifications in Vendor OT Cybersecurity Platforms are a plus.
• Experience in OT systems architecture and design (including knowledge of industrial communication protocols and technologies from automation vendors such as Emerson, Siemens, and ABB among others).
• Experience in performing OT risk assessments, threat assessments, and an understanding of OT vulnerabilities.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in cyber security related projects.
• Experience supporting and working with various IT and cyber security technologies such as Active Directory, networking, SIEM, firewalls, IDS/IPS and antivirus.
• Knowledge of internationally recognized OT security standards, e.g. IEC 62443/ISA 99, NIST SP 800-82, NERC CIP, TSA Cybersecurity Requirements, C2M2.
• Relevant experience in different multiple units of chemical plants, disciplines, locations (cultures – international environment) and/or other companies are a plus.
• Risk analysis – Identify and analyze cyber security risks, stakeholders and linkages to other activities and define required risk remediation activities

Result: Cyber security risks are identified, reported, clear, and well understood

• Remediation execution – Coordinate, monitor and accountably manage remediation activities, manage, and mitigate cyber security risks, issues, changes and deviations and resources and take corrective actions when necessary.

Result: Timely delivery of remediation activities and reporting of information to the CISO

• Relations Management – Build, maintain and utilize a network of in- and external stakeholders/partners and represent OT security within the organization

Result: Cohesive relationships that contributes to risk remediation

• Technical expertise – Be a Subject Matter Expert on OT cyber security, formulate technical security requirements, standards, and procedures, ensure site involvement, determine required resources for remediation activities, clarify role and involvement level of site personnel

Result: Technical support and expertise is available and required resources are approved

• Travel– Willingness to travel up to 25% of time to production sites in the region
• People Development and Training (where applicable) – Train, (functionally) lead, coach, appraise and develop site personnel, and stimulate talent (management)

Result: Site personnel is engaged, deployable (quantitative and qualitative) and capable of realizing cyber security objectives

We Believe You Are:

• Strong in leadership skills by showing “presence in the room”.
• Strong in strategic and tactical skills with ability to execute and follow through.
• Able to drive continuous improvement of the processes, policies, standards.
• Able to work in an inclusive way in the engineering community to make sure the business experiences ‘one voice’ and the project team’s collective objectives are met.
• Excellent with interpersonal skills, influencing, persuading, entrepreneurship, result oriented, negotiation, problem solving.
• Good structured and excellent with analytical skills.
• Good communication and presentation skills in English both verbal and written.
• Open to innovation, change and ability to work in a flexible work environment.
• Able to impart knowledge and learn quickly.
• Team player contributes to project team’s ability to reach maximum performance.
• Demonstrated high performance levels and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written.

Good to know:
 

This is a permanent position on a full-time basis, reporting to the Cybersecurity and Architecture Engineering Director, based in Houston, TX.  

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit: nouryon.com/careers/how-we-hire/  

We look forward to receiving your application! 

We kindly ask our internal candidates to apply with your Nouryon email via Success Factors.  
  

About Nouryon:

We’re looking for tomorrow’s Changemakers, today. 

If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team of Changemakers in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment. 

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Nouryon is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.