OT Development and Support Engineer

Lear Corporation seeks an OT Development and Support Engineer to develop, deploy, and support OT applications for its seating manufacturing operations. The role maintains reliable Ignition solutions, resolves technical issues, and supports plant and regional teams through deployment, documentation, troubleshooting, and training.

Responsibilities:

• Translate the OT roadmap into coordinated program plans, priorities, dependencies, and measures of progress
• Coordinate the development, review, and adoption of OT standards and procedures with the responsible technical owners
• Lead program readiness and governance reviews; coordinate design reviews with the Sr. IT–OT Architect and technical owners
• Manage, coach, and prioritize work for the program enablement engineer
• Coordinate solution evaluations against manufacturing needs, approved standards, deployment readiness, and supportability
• Coordinate IT, OT, networking, and cybersecurity requirements without changing the ownership of those functions
• Define standards adoption and compliance review processes, including documented exceptions and remediation follow-up
• Coordinate engineering deliverables, deployment prerequisites, training readiness, and handoff requirements with Regional Support and plants
• Track audit findings, readiness gaps, program risks, and corrective actions through resolution with accountable owners

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in OT, industrial automation, manufacturing systems, controls engineering, or a related discipline
• Minimum 2 years of people leadership, project leadership, technical leadership, or program leadership experience
• Experience coordinating manufacturing technology programs, deployment readiness, standards adoption, or governance processes
• Strong understanding of industrial automation, OT cybersecurity, industrial networking, and manufacturing operations
• Ability to lead cross-functional reviews, communicate technical tradeoffs, and resolve competing business and operational needs
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing Technology, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline preferred
• Experience with Ignition, MQTT, Unified Namespace (UNS), industrial historians, and manufacturing analytics
• Experience leading multi-site OT programs, standards adoption, and engineering teams in a global manufacturing organization