**Location:** Paris, Belgium or Netherlands base with frequent travel across Europe and worldwide (up to 50%)

**Duration:** 6-12 months (renewable)

**Languages Required:** Fluent in English and French

Mission Summary

We are looking for an experienced and autonomous OT Cybersecurity & Automation Consultant to support our Global Engineering team. This full-time freelance position plays a critical role in assessing and improving cybersecurity, automation maturity, and technology lifecycle management across our global manufacturing sites.

The ideal candidate has a holistic understanding of OT cybersecurity and industrial automation, and is capable of evaluating factories against internal and international technical standards, identifying gaps, draft roadmap and guiding factories toward compliance and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

· Act as a trusted technical liaison between the corporate engineering team and factory-based automation and OT stakeholders.

· Conduct on-site and remote assessments of:

Ø OT cybersecurity maturity (based on internal frameworks and industry standards)

Ø Compliance of factories against defined technical specifications (for both automation and cybersecurity)

Ø Automation systems obsolescence (hardware and software lifecycle, vendor support, risk level)

· Provide comprehensive, site-specific support and recommendations for remediation, modernization, and risk reduction.

· Analyze and consolidate technical data from factory systems, interviews, and documentation.

· Maintain a centralized repository of assessment results, gaps, compliance status, and follow-up actions (SharePoint, Excel, internal tools).

· Produce clear technical reports, executive summaries, and dashboards for internal stakeholders (PowerBI, Powerpoint, etc…)

· Demonstrated ability to engage and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, including engineering managers and site directors.

· Collaborate with internal teams (Cybersecurity, IT/OT, Engineering) to align on expectations, findings, and strategic actions.

· Independently plan and manage travel to factories (~50% of the time), ensuring efficient use of time and resources.

Montreal Associates is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.