OT Systems Team Lead

Basic Function

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. They serve as a hands-on technical leader and escalation point for significant OT issues, outages, changes, and security events.

Job Duties

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES: (functions considered essential as defined by ADA)

- Provide technical leadership and direction for the 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 to improve operational resilience, reduce risk, and enable safe and efficient refinery operations.

- 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 practical mitigation, budget, resource, and investment plans; and make sound 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; communicate material risks, non-compliance, and resource constraints promptly.

- Provide oversight and coordination for OT compliance audits and assessments conducted by USCG, NERC, and internal stakeholders.

- Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their supervisor, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion.

Experience

A minimum of six years of progressively responsible experience supporting industrial control systems, process control networks, OT infrastructure, automation systems, or related refinery or manufacturing technology environments is required. Demonstrated experience leading technical personnel, major technical work, projects, contractors, or multi-discipline response efforts is required. Experience applying structured change management, cybersecurity, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and risk-management practices in an operating industrial facility is required.

Education Level

A minimum of an associate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Automation, or a related technical field. Or equivalent directly related industrial OT experience, is required.

PREFERRED EDUCATIONAL LEVEL:

A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Automation, or a related technical field is preferred.

Required Skills

- 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.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

- 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.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

- Provides direct leadership for site OT Systems personnel and coordinates supplemental contractor resources.

- Sets expectations, assigns work, develops capability, supports performance management, and builds succession and backup coverage.

- Leads through influence across site, Corporate OT, Regional OT, project, engineering, maintenance, and operations organizations.

Work Conditions

- Office and refinery plant environment with exposure to weather, noise, process, and equipment hazards while following site safety requirements and up to 10% travel.

- May require access to operating units, control rooms, substations, server rooms, and other OT equipment locations and use of required personal protective equipment.

- May require occasional travel, work outside normal business hours, and availability for planned outages, project cutovers, or urgent operational and cybersecurity events.

- Subject to applicable site access, safety, training, and fitness-for-duty requirements.

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 visit Total Rewards (https://rewards.hfsinclair.com/).
## Physical Requirements

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 lubricants and specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to our refineries and the petroleum industry. HF Sinclair markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states and supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,750 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand to more than 350 additional locations throughout the country. HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in New Mexico. 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.
## 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.

Salary Range: The salary range includes the minimum, midpoint, and maximum base salary values. A candidate's offer can vary depending on differentiating factors, including but not limited to education, training, or experience.

This position has a salary minimum of $124,900.00 and maximum of $226,900.00.