OT Systems Lead: DCS, Security & Refinery Operations

HF Sinclair; Anacortes (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Paid Time-Off

401(k) Retirement Plan with match

Educational Reimbursement

Parental Bonding Time

Employee Discounts

Job summary

HF Sinclair seeks an OT Systems Team Lead to guide the site’s OT operations and strategy at Puget Sound refinery. You will lead the OT Systems team and coordinate with Corporate/Regional OT to support refinery operations, cybersecurity, and capital projects.

You will serve as a hands-on technical leader for OT infrastructure, DCS, and associated systems, ensuring 24x7 readiness and risk‑based decisions. The role emphasizes change management, incident response, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Six years of experience in industrial control systems, OT infra, or refinery tech environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical personnel and multi‑discipline response efforts.
• Experience applying structured change management, cybersecurity, lifecycle management, and risk practices in an operating facility.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for secure, reliable site OT systems and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain site OT strategy and lifecycle roadmap aligned with refinery priorities and HF Sinclair standards.
• Lead cross-functional OT initiatives with Corporate/Regional OT, refinery leadership, Operations, Maintenance, and IT.
• Ensure reliable support and lifecycle management for DCS, OT servers/workstations, virtualization, historians, APC, and related equipment.
• Coordinate OT ownership levels (L1/L2/L3) and cross-training for critical systems.
• Lead response to OT cybersecurity events; act as site OT Incident Owner when needed.
• Ensure OT work follows change management, access control, backups, patching, and vulnerability management.
• Identify operational/cybersecurity risks; develop mitigation, budgets, and plans; risk-based decisions in 24x7 ops.
• Plan OT support for capital projects, turnarounds, outages, migrations, upgrades, and replacements.
• Direct contractors/vendors; set scope, expectations, monitor performance, ensure quality.
• Promote standardization and continuous improvement of OT processes, docs, monitoring, and support.

Skills

OT architecture

Cybersecurity

Change management

Team leadership

IEC 62443

NIST SP 800-82

Communication

Risk management

Education

Associate degree in Engineering/Tech

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

Honeywell Experion

Job description

HF Sinclair seeks an OT Systems Team Lead to guide the site’s OT operations and strategy at Puget Sound refinery. You will lead the OT Systems team and coordinate with Corporate/Regional OT to support refinery operations, cybersecurity, and capital projects.

You will serve as a hands-on technical leader for OT infrastructure, DCS, and associated systems, ensuring 24x7 readiness and risk‑based decisions. The role emphasizes change management, incident response, and cross‑functional collaboration.