Operational Technology Engineer

🕒 July 9

🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $87.9k - $153.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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McCormick & Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1889

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Logistics • Consulting • Food & Beverage

McCormick & Company, Inc. is a global leader in flavor and one of the most respected names in the spice and seasoning industry. With over 130 years of experience, McCormick manufactures, markets, and distributes a wide array of products including spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavor-enhancing ingredients for both retail and food service sectors. The company is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that encourages creativity, professional growth, and collaboration among its 14,000 employees worldwide.

📋 Description

• Leads the design and deployment of standardized OT solutions, including PLC, HMI, and SCADA systems, while supporting MES integration and plant-level data frameworks. • Participates in commissioning, cutover, and hypercare activities, and contributes to the development of global deployment playbooks. • Drives standardization and lifecycle management of industrial automation platforms (e.g., Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric), ensuring consistent configuration baselines and version control. • Supports structured patching and upgrade cycles while reducing technical debt across legacy plant environments. • Contributes to continuous improvement by providing technical input to product backlogs, identifying automation opportunities to enhance performance and reduce costs, and recommending architecture improvements based on plant feedback. • Also supports pilot initiatives under Transform funding, including areas such as predictive maintenance. • Focuses on improving reliability and resilience by implementing high-availability and failover designs for critical systems, and supporting backup and disaster recovery strategies for PLC configurations, SCADA servers, and historian systems. • Contributes to initiatives aimed at reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) and partners with Site Reliability Engineers to enhance observability and alerting capabilities. • Maintain continuous personal learning and development to remain technological relevancy in current and emerging technologies. • Perform other responsibilities as assigned by the Supervisor.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Automation, Computer Engineering, or related field • 6-9 years of experience in manufacturing OT environments • Excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate openly within a fast-moving team • Hands-on experience with PLC and SCADA systems • Experience with industrial networking concepts (VLANs, network segmentation, firewalls) • Understanding of high-availability and disaster recovery principles • Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices in industrial environments • Ability to travel to manufacturing sites (25–40%)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Career growth opportunities • Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices • Wellbeing programs including Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits • Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support • Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans