Manager, Consulting - Gas OT / ICS

About the role

Black & Veatch is seeking an exceptional professional to join our Infrastructure Advisory organization as a Manager – Consulting (Natural Gas OT & Industrial Control Systems). This role focuses on leading and delivering Natural Gas Utility and Pipeline Transmission OT/ICS programs, with responsibility spanning system design, configuration, integration, testing, and cutover.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage client engagements for Natural Gas Utility and Pipeline Transmission OT/ICS programs, including gas control, SCADA, measurement, compression, and pipeline monitoring systems.
• Support development of OT modernization strategies, business cases, and implementation roadmaps, with direct involvement in execution and system delivery.
• Perform and oversee system configuration, application development, and integration activities, including SCADA configuration, control logic support, and interface development between OT and enterprise systems.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to document current-state and future-state operational processes, control room workflows, and system integration requirements.
• Provide functional and technical leadership across Natural Gas OT systems, including SCADA, PLCs, RTUs, flow measurement, valve/regulator automation, compressor station controls, and communications networks.
• Develop and review solution architectures, integration designs, and technical specifications for natural gas transmission and distribution control systems.
• Execute and oversee system integration between field devices, SCADA platforms, historians, adjacent OT platforms, and enterprise IT systems.
• Support requirements definition, detailed design, and RFI/RFP development, with an emphasis on deliverability and integration feasibility.
• Evaluate vendor designs and participate directly in configuration reviews, design validation, and technical quality assurance.
• Lead or support FAT, SAT, UAT, cutover planning, and go-live execution, including hands-on support during commissioning where required.
• Ensure implementations comply with PHMSA regulations, Control Room Management (CRM) requirements, and applicable API recommended practices.
• Mentor peers and junior staff through hands-on delivery, configuration, and integration activities, building internal capability and depth.
• Serve as a subject matter expert contributing to business development, proposals, and thought leadership focused on natural gas OT modernization and system integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years related work experience.
• Demonstrated experience performing or leading SCADA, OT, or ICS system configuration, development, and system integration.
• Strong understanding of natural gas transmission and distribution operations, including gas control, pipeline monitoring, measurement, and compression.
• Hands-on experience with SCADA platforms, PLCs, RTUs, and industrial communication protocols used in gas utility environments.
• Experience integrating OT platforms with historians, analytics platforms, and enterprise IT systems.
• Proven ability to bridge operations, engineering, and IT teams to deliver integrated OT solutions.
• Ability to travel up to 50%; typical travel up to 25%.

Benefits

Major SCADA / ICS system training beneficial.

Flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.

A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union.

Performance-based bonus program.