OT Systems Team Lead

HF Sinclair•Anacortes, WA

20h

About The Position

The OT Systems Team Lead provides site leadership and technical direction for the secure, reliable, and sustainable operation of Operational Technology systems at the Puget Sound Refinery. The role sets the site OT strategy; leads, develops, and architects the local OT Systems team; coordinates with Corporate and Regional OT organizations; and ensures effective support for refinery operations, maintenance, cybersecurity, turnarounds, and capital projects. The position is a hands-on technical leader and escalation point for significant OT issues, outages, changes, and security events. The role leads site OT personnel and coordinates contractor resources. It sets expectations, assigns work, develops team capability, supports performance management, and builds succession and backup coverage, while also leading through influence across refinery, corporate, regional, project, engineering, maintenance, and operations groups. Work takes place in an office and refinery plant environment, with possible exposure to weather, noise, process, and equipment hazards. The role may require access to operating units, control rooms, substations, server rooms, and other OT equipment locations, use of required personal protective equipment, up to 10% travel, occasional work outside normal business hours, and availability for planned outages, project cutovers, or urgent operational and cybersecurity events. Site access, safety, training, and fitness-for-duty requirements apply.

Requirements

At least six years of progressively responsible experience supporting industrial control systems, process control networks, OT infrastructure, automation systems, or related refinery or manufacturing technology environments.
Demonstrated experience leading technical personnel, major technical work, projects, contractors, or multi-discipline response efforts.
Experience applying structured change management, cybersecurity, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and risk-management practices in an operating industrial facility.
At least an associate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Automation, or a related technical field, or equivalent directly related industrial OT experience.
Strong knowledge of industrial OT architecture, networking, servers, workstations, virtualization, access management, backup and recovery, monitoring, and cybersecurity.
Ability to balance reliability, cybersecurity, safety, production, maintainability, and lifecycle risk.
Ability to lead teams through complex, high-impact problems and safely restore service.
Ability to translate technical risks into business impacts, priorities, recommendations, and funding needs.
Strong understanding of IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82 standards.
Effective planning, prioritization, delegation, contractor, and stakeholder management skills.
Excellent communication skills and ability to develop clear procedures, standards, roadmaps, budgets, and work plans.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Automation, or a related technical field.
Continuous-process industry experience, preferably refining or petrochemical.
Experience with Honeywell Experion or comparable DCS infrastructure and support tools.
Experience with Level 3/PCN applications, infrastructure, historians, APC, virtualization, backups, monitoring, and secure access.
Experience with OT cybersecurity, incident response, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and compliance.
Experience with DCS migrations, infrastructure upgrades, replacements, turnarounds, and capital projects.
Prior team-lead, supervisory, or technical-lead experience.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and direction for secure, reliable, and sustainable operation of site OT systems and infrastructure.
Develop and maintain the site OT strategy and lifecycle roadmap in alignment with refinery priorities, HF Sinclair standards, and Corporate OT architecture, cybersecurity, and service strategies.
Lead cross-functional OT initiatives with Corporate and Regional OT, refinery leadership, Operations, Maintenance, Process Control, Engineering, Projects, IT, and external service providers.
Ensure reliable support and lifecycle management for DCS infrastructure, process control networks, OT servers and workstations, virtualization, historians, advanced process control, analyzer and laboratory systems, and related communications equipment.
Coordinate Level 1 / Controllers, Level 2 / DCS, Level 3 / PCN, and Level 3.5 OT DMZ ownership while maintaining cross-training and team resilience for operationally critical systems.
Lead response to OT system and cybersecurity events; serve as or designate the site OT Incident Owner and coordinate troubleshooting, recovery, communications, documentation, and follow-up actions.
Ensure OT work follows applicable change management, access control, backup and recovery, patching, vulnerability management, configuration management, and cybersecurity requirements.
Identify and communicate operational, cybersecurity, obsolescence, reliability, and business-continuity risks; develop mitigation, budget, resource, and investment plans; and make risk-based decisions in a 24x7 operating environment.
Plan and coordinate OT support for capital projects, turnarounds, outages, migrations, upgrades, and replacements, including design, testing, cutover, documentation, and support readiness.
Direct contractors and vendors by defining scope, setting technical expectations, monitoring performance, coordinating site integration, and assuring deliverable quality.
Promote standardization and continuous improvement of OT processes, architecture, documentation, monitoring, and support practices; promptly communicate material risks, non-compliance, and resource constraints.
Provide oversight and coordination for OT compliance audits and assessments conducted by USCG, NERC, and internal stakeholders.
Set expectations for site OT Systems personnel, assign work, develop capability, support performance management, and build succession and backup coverage.
Complete special assignments or tasks assigned by the employee's supervisor.