Distributed Controls Systems Monitoring Analyst

HF Sinclair Corporation; Anacortes (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Paid Time-Off

401(k) Retirement Plan

Educational Reimbursement

Parental Bonding Time

Employee Discounts

Job summary

HF Sinclair Corporation is seeking a Distributed Control System (DCS) Monitoring Analyst to support fleet-wide DCS health, performance, and security across multiple HF Sinclair sites. You will coordinate with OT Cyber, regional teams, and site personnel to standardize monitoring practices and improve system reliability.

The role requires 5+ years in industrial automation, OT cybersecurity experience, and travel up to 40% to support multi-site operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent industrial experience.
• 5+ years of experience supporting industrial automation and control systems.
• Experience with OT cybersecurity technologies and security monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary contact for enterprise DCS monitoring.
• Define, plan, and deploy standard monitoring tools.
• Perform centralized DCS telemetry monitoring across fleet.
• Develop processes connecting local, regional, and remote monitoring.
• Maintain fleet OT asset inventories and tool coverage across locations.
• Create dashboards and reports for leadership and plant stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on OT incidents.

Skills

Communication

Troubleshooting

Monitoring

MTTD/MTTR

Independence

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

DCS platforms

Experion PKS

Honeywell

Siemens

Foxboro

Job description

Basic Function

HF Sinclair is seeking a Distributed Control System (DCS) Monitoring Analyst in the following locations Dallas,TX , Artesia, NM, El Dorado, KS ,Tulsa,OK, Casper,WY, Sinclair, WY, Salt Lake City, UT, Woods Cross, or Anacortes, WA .The Distributed Control System (DCS) Monitoring Analyst supports fleet-wide monitoring of control systems across HF Sinclair sites. The role reports to the Control Systems Automation Lead and coordinates closely with OT Cyber Analyst, regional support teams, site OT teams, and other technical stakeholders to monitor and improve DCS performance, health, availability, , cybersecurity, and system reliability metrics. The expected outcome is to identify issues, coordinate proactive response, drive standardization, and improve system reliability across the enterprise.This position is critical to maintaining the availability, performance, and security of the organization's DCS infrastructure while supporting operational excellence and digital transformation initiatives.

Job Duties

• Act as a primary point of contact for enterprise DCS monitoring activities.
• Define, plan, and deploy standard tools to support monitoring activities.
• Perform centralized monitoring of DCS telemetry across fleet environments.
• Develop coordinated work processes to connect local, regional, and remote monitoring and response capabilities.
• Identify, document, track, and escalate gaps where OT assets are not properly surfaced in approved fleet tools or related monitoring platforms.
• Maintain and improve fleet OT asset inventories to ensure OT assets are accurately identified, current, and visible through approved fleet tools and reporting processes.
• Coordinate with site OT, operations, maintenance, and vendors to improve the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of OT asset records and tool coverage across all fleet locations.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide KPIs related to DCS health and performance.
• Analyze recurring system issues and identify opportunities for reliability improvements.
• Create dashboards and/or utilize approved system analysis and monitoring application reports for leadership, engineering teams, and plant stakeholders.
• Identify leading indicators of system degradation and recommend corrective actions.
• Monitor control system health, system performance, communications status, server infrastructure, and application availability.
• Analyze alarms, events, diagnostics, and performance trends to proactively identify potential issues. Identify leading indicators of system degradation and recommend corrective actions.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to investigate and respond to OT security incidents
• Perform routing health checks of DCS hardware, software, communications networks and historian systems.
• Escalate and coordinate responses to critical control system events impacting production or safety.
• Maintain visibility of fleet-wide OT infrastructure through monitoring and analytics platforms
• Support deployment of advanced analytics and predictive monitoring technologies
• Recommend enhancements to monitoring tools, architecture, and workflows.
• Identify opportunities to improve system visibility, monitoring effectiveness, and operational reliability
• Participate in technology assessments and system lifecycle planning.
• Ensure consistency of monitoring, alerting, and reporting practices across facilities
• Participate in technical and non-technical projects requiring analysis, monitoring, documentation, and risk tracking.
• Stay current with system threats, recommended configurations, vulnerabilities, advisories, applicable to control systems automation environments.

Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience supporting industrial automation and control systems.
• Experience with OT cybersecurity technologies and security monitoring
• Experience with DCS platforms, Honeywell, Siemens, Foxboro, etc. Experion PKS and associated applications a plus.
• Experience working within multi-site manufacturing or industrial operation.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring, system diagnostics, and incident managemen

Education Level

Bachelors in a related technical field OR equivalent industrial experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree.

Required Skills

• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to identify and resolve complex technical issues.
• Systems monitoring and diagnostics.
• Strong foundation in Mean Time to Detect and Mean Time to Respond principles.
• Proven ability to work independently as an individual contributor while effectively collaborating with cross-functional technical teams, site production personnel, third-party engineering firms and vendors.
• Ability and willingness to support multiple sites across the fleet, including up to 40% travel by air and ground transportation

Work Conditions

Office based with up to 40% travel by land or air is required. Subject to all weather and varying road conditions. Occasional long hours, as well as nights and weekends, may be required to support maintenance windows, outages, cybersecurity events, audits, investigations, and site project activities.

Benefits

HF Sinclair offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Paid Time-Off
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with match
• Educational Reimbursement
• Parental Bonding Time
• Employee Discounts

We are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment, ensuring our employees have the resources needed to thrive professionally and personally. Benefit eligibility is governed by official plan documents, for more details visitTotal Rewards.

Physical Requirements

Job conditions require sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, perceiving color differences, and the ability to operate and drive assigned company vehicles at company standard insurance rates. A valid State driver's license and proof of insurance are required. Job conditions may require standing, walking, twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, reaching or grasping, lifting and/or carrying up to 25 lbs.

Our One HF Sinclair Culture:

At HF Sinclair, we are united through our One HF Sinclair Culture, which is underpinned by our five core values of Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, Ownership and Inclusion. Developed to empower our people, our five core cultural values are at the heart of everything we do and extend to how we engage our stakeholders. These values influence our decisions, shape our behaviors and keep us connected across the entire organization. We maintain a true Safety culture for our employees, communities, environments and customers. Our goal is to make sure everyone returns home safely each day. We have a long-standing commitment to Integrity and ethical behavior and do what is right for our employees, investors, communities and the environment. We encourage employees to Step Up and Stand Out by championing a culture of Teamwork and Ownership. We foster a culture of Inclusion by encouraging diversity of experiences, viewpoints and backgrounds. What makes each of us different, together makes us stronger.

About HF Sinclair Corporation

HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company that produces and markets high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. In addition, subsidiaries of HF Sinclair produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and export products to more than 80 countries. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to its refineries and the petroleum industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer

HF Sinclair Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other prohibited ground of discrimination.