Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) finds use in several industrial applications like robots, medical devices, and software-defined manufacturing processes. Apart from the promising benefits of the IIoT networks, several challenging issues need to be resolved, such as network connectivity, security, privacy, heterogeneity, scheduling, and energy efficiency. Due to the large-scale deployment and heterogeneity of the nodes in IIoT networks, some energy-limited nodes have existed in the IIoT networks, resulting in reduced network lifetime. At the same time, security and privacy are also considered as the major issues that exist in the design of IIoT, which can be addressed using secure routing techniques. In this view, this study develops a trust-aware multiobjective metaheuristic optimization-based secure clustering with route planning (TAMOMO-SCRP) technique for cluster-based IIoT environment. The presented TAMOMO-SCRP technique mainly focuses on the design of bald eagle search (BES) algorithm for clustering and routing processes. The proposed TAMOMO-SCRP model derives a fitness function for accomplishing maximum energy efficiency and security. For an effective clustering process, the TAMOMO-SCRP model designs an objective function involving four parameters such as trust level (TL), communication cost (CC), residual energy (RE), and node degree (ND). Besides, the route selection process is based on the fitness function with two variables, namely, queue length and link quality. For assessing the enhanced performance of the TAMOMO-SCRP model, a wide range of experiments were carried out to get the outcomes of network life time(NLT) as 39451,half network die (HND) as 25950 and Stability period (SP) 8000 time calculated no. of alive nodes. The achieved outcomes make sure the better performance of the TAMOMO-SCRP technique against the other recent approaches.INDEX TERMS Industrial Internet of Things, clustering, bald eagle search algorithm, trust aware protocols, security.