Distributed Controls Systems Monitoring Analyst

HF Sinclair is seeking a Distributed Control System (DCS) Monitoring Analyst in the following locations DallasTX Artesia NM El Dorado KS TulsaOK CasperWY 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 position is critical to maintaining the availability performance and security of the organizations DCS infrastructure while supporting operational excellence and digital transformation initiatives.

• 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.

• 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

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

• 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

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.

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 drivers 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.

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.