OT Strategy, Cybersecurity & Industrial Transformation

South Australia is entering a significant period of investment across mining, water, energy, defence and critical infrastructure.

Search Partners are working with a national industrial technology and engineering business that wants to strengthen its OT capability in Adelaide and is looking for a senior person to help lead that growth.

This is a newly created role with a broad mandate.

The business already has established relationships across many of South Australia’s major industrial and critical infrastructure organisations. What we're looking for is someone locally who can operate at a senior level with those clients, understanding their operational and technology challenges, helping define where they need to go next, and building the consulting and delivery capability around those needs.

The work could range from an OT strategy or cyber maturity engagement through to a major SCADA modernisation, network architecture program or broader digital transformation initiative.

The opportunity

You’ll work across areas including:

- OT strategy, architecture and technology roadmaps
- SCADA and control system modernisation
- OT cybersecurity, resilience and IEC 62443
- Industrial networks and IT/OT convergence
- Digital transformation and industrial technology
- Technology lifecycle and modernisation planning
- Senior client advisory and stakeholder workshops
- Identification and development of current consulting opportunities
- Building capability and mentoring technical specialists

Importantly, this isn’t a traditional sales position.

There are existing clients, relationships and delivery capability already in place. The opportunity is to become a trusted senior OT advisor in the region,



helping clients work out what they need and positioning the business to support them through the journey.

Equally, it isn’t a role for someone who wants to spend every day writing PLC code or delivering a predefined scope.

It sits deliberately between strategy, technology, clients and delivery.

The background we’re looking for.

You might currently be a Principal OT Consultant, senior automation leader, OT architect, digital transformation specialist, OT cybersecurity consultant or an experienced client-side OT leader.

You don’t need to be the deepest technical specialist across every technology.

What matters is that you have:

- A strong grounding in industrial OT, automation or control systems
- Credibility with engineering, operations and technology stakeholders
- The ability to see the bigger picture across architecture, cyber, modernisation and digital
- Strong relationships within the South Australian industrial market
- Commercial awareness and the ability to recognise where an advisory conversation can become meaningful work
- Enough technical depth to challenge, guide and bring the right specialists into the room

Where could it lead?

The intention is not simply to add another senior consultant to an existing team.

There is genuine scope for the right person to help establish and grow the SA/NT OT capability, build a team around the market opportunity and take on increasing regional leadership as the business develops.

You’ll have the backing of a national engineering and OT delivery business, a vendor agnostic technology approach and an established industrial customer base.

If you know the Adelaide OT market, enjoy working with clients at the front end of complex problems and want the opportunity to help build something rather than simply inherit a job description.

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📌 Principal OT Cybersecurity & Digital Industry Consultant (Adelaide)
🏢 Search Partners
📍 Adelaide