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About the role

  • OT Controls Systems Specialist supporting Strathcona’s heavy oil production control infrastructure. Maintaining secure, reliable automation systems across Alberta and Saskatchewan field operations.

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on technical support for operational technology and control systems
  • Collaborate with automation, network, cyber security, operations, and engineering teams
  • Follow documentation, management of change, testing, and approval requirements for every control system change
  • Configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize control systems, human-machine interfaces, servers, networks, and related operational technology infrastructure
  • Implement operational technology security controls, including network separation, secure remote access, account management, patching, backups, recovery testing, and vulnerability remediation
  • Maintain inventories, system drawings, configurations, procedures, and support records
  • Identify assets requiring upgrades before they fall out of vendor support
  • Execute assigned project work, identify technical and operational risks, provide status updates, and escalate high-risk issues to the Team Lead
  • Support design reviews, factory and site acceptance testing, commissioning, startup, turnaround activities, and handover to operations
  • Coordinate technical activities with operations, vendors, service providers, and technology teams
  • Provide support for control room communications, operator alarms, and production-impacting incidents
  • Improve operational data reliability and completeness, support real-time monitoring and historian integrations, and contribute to initiatives such as computer vision for leak and spill detection

Requirements

  • Technical diploma or degree in a relevant field such as instrumentation, electrical, automation, engineering, or information technology
  • 5-8+ years of hands-on experience with operational technology, automation, or control systems in oil and gas, including experience supporting multiple sites or projects in an operating environment
  • Strong knowledge of oil and gas operations and field infrastructure, ideally thermal and conventional production
  • Demonstrated experience with control systems and automation platforms such as DeltaV and Allen-Bradley
  • Solid understanding of field networks and communications, including wireless, radio, cellular, and satellite
  • Understanding of operational technology security practices such as network separation, secure remote access, patching, backups, and recovery
  • Experience with operational data historians and dashboards such as PI, field data capture, and production reporting systems
  • Knowledge of measurement requirements, alarm management, and functional safety practices
  • Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills
  • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and escalate risks appropriately

Benefits

  • Regular travel between offices and field locations as part of the role
  • P.Eng. or C.E.T. considered an asset

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Tech skills

Cyber Security

Location requirements

OnsiteCalgaryCanada

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