Automation Engineer

At South Bow we do one thing and we do it well: safely moving oil between some of the worlds most critical building our high-performing team with versatile thinkers who thrive on solving big challenges youre ready for a position where your skills are highly valued and your work is incredibly important we want to meet you. Bring your talents to a new streamlined energy company dedicated to operational commercial and safety excellence as we pursue our critical purpose of delivering the energy people need.

The Opportunity

South Bows Automation Engineering team is responsible for the control systems that support safe reliable and efficient pipeline operations across Canada and the U.S. These systems include PLCs RTUs HMIs field instrumentation communications infrastructure and integrations with SCADA and leak detection systems.

This is a technical role for an experienced Automation Engineer who wants to influence how critical pipeline control systems are designed sustained secured and modernized. You will lead complex automation work across South Bows
liquids pipeline network solve high-impact control system challenges and help shape standards practices and technical decisions that support safe and reliable operations across Canada and the U.S.

What Youll Do

• Lead complex automation and control system work supporting pipeline operations leak detection measurement and facility control.
• Design integrate troubleshoot and sustain PLC RTU HMI instrumentation communications SCADA and related field systems.
• Resolve complex non-standard or ambiguous control system issues where guidance may be limited and operational impact may be significant.
• Provide technical direction for automation design integration testing commissioning lifecycle planning and reliability improvements.
• Lead automation scopes for capital maintenance modernization and reliability initiatives from scope definition through operational handover.
• Strengthen automation standards control narratives testing practices documentation expectations and governance processes.
• Govern changes through Management of Change ensuring solutions are reviewed tested documented cyber-aware and production ready.
• Provide technical oversight of consultants vendors and contractors by reviewing designs validating solutions and challenging assumptions.
• Collaborate across Systems Operations Control Centre SCADA Cybersecurity Telecommunications Project Delivery and Engineering to deliver reliable operational solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering preferably Electrical Computer Automation Instrumentation Controls or a related engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer designation with APEGA.
• Typically 8 years of relevant automation control systems industrial operations or pipeline experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex automation or control system work in operational environments.
• Deep technical expertise in PLCs RTUs HMIs field instrumentation SCADA integration industrial communications and control system lifecycle practices.
• Proven ability to resolve complex non-standard or ambiguous control system issues with limited guidance.
• Experience providing technical oversight peer review mentoring and quality assurance for engineering deliverables.
• Strong judgment communication and stakeholder management skills including the ability to adapt technical communication for operations engineering cybersecurity vendors and leadership.
• Strong technical writing documentation analytical troubleshooting and design review capability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting liquids pipeline terminal pump station or other critical industrial infrastructure.
• Experience with Siemens S7 Emerson/ControlWave GE or equivalent industrial control platforms.
• Working knowledge of Wonderware/AVEVA SCADA systems HMI standards and industrial networking.
• Experience supporting leak detection measurement or real-time operations systems.
• Knowledge of industrial cybersecurity principles OT network architectures and secure control system change practices.
• Experience leading automation scopes on capital maintenance reliability or modernization projects.
• Experience working with field operations maintenance control room and project delivery teams.
• Experience using data analytics dashboards Power BI or automation monitoring and reporting tools.

Additional Role Requirements

• Provide escalation-level support for significant system issues that may be outside normal working hours.

About our business

South Bows existing oil & liquids pipeline infrastructure connects Alberta crude oil supplies to U.S. refining markets in Illinois Oklahoma Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast. We remain committed to meeting the energy needs of North Americans today while advancing our Liquids Pipelines System for the demands of the future. Connecting growing Canadian and U.S. crude oil supply to key markets leveraging existing assets and seeking new opportunities to continue to provide our customers with access to the destinations they need.

South Bow is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program supervised by the U.S. government.

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* Depending on qualifications the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.

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