Manager, Controls & Automation
Date: Jul 21, 2025
Location: Strathcona County, AB, CA
Company: Inter Pipeline Ltd.
At Inter Pipeline, we are building a team of innovators and problem solvers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. We cultivate opportunities to get to know each other better and collaborate more effectively. In every part of our organization, you will find people with a sense of purpose and a shared ethos - motivated, engaged, exploring new ideas and pushing for continuous improvements in everything we do. We believe teamwork is core to our success, and in that spirit you will work closely with leaders and team members. This is a great opportunity to amplify your purpose and contribute to meaningful, challenging work at the forefront of the energy sector.
Bring your passion, your ideas, and let's do this.
Description
Located at our Heartland Petrochemical Complex, the Manager, Controls & Automation will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for process controls, plant automation, and OT cybersecurity across the facility. Reporting to Director, Technical Services of the Heartland Business Unit, this role is critical to ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations through strategic leadership in technology integration, system lifecycle management, and digital risk mitigation. The Controls & Automation team supports day-to-day operations, long-term capital planning, and continuous improvement initiatives, playing a key role in optimizing plant performance and maintaining regulatory compliance in a highly automated production environment.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Continue to develop and lead Process Controls, Automation, and OT Cybersecurity teams
- Develop and communicate strategic team goals that align with business objectives
- Provide leadership to ensure the secure integration/utilization of advanced technologies to optimize plant efficiency
- Incident response leader for control systems and OT cybersecurity
- Develop and execute strategic plans to manage critical systems from failure/obsolescence
- Manage department multi-year plans, annual OPEX/CAPEX budgets and TA plans
- Collaborate with operations and maintenance to ensure efficient and safe plant operation
- Manage employee performance and ensure effective employee development plans including annual goals & objectives, role and responsibilities, training and career development plans are in place for team members.
- Coordinate resourcing (employees, consultants, service providers) to deliver on business objectives
- APEGA Responsible Member for permit to practice for process control, automation and OT documents as required.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Engineering degree OR Diploma in a relevant field (Instrumentation, Electrical or Automation) with a minimum of 10 years related Automation/Process Controls/OT experience in an operating facility in the Oil & Gas or Petchem industry
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in leading a department or departments with proven leadership competencies
- P.Eng or P.L.Eng is required
- Must have a minimum of 5 years’ hands on experience with DCS, PLC and APC hardware/software platforms
- Knowledge of OT networks, Cybersecurity best practices and incident response is preferable
- Sound communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
While diversity is a fact, inclusion is the act of recognizing the value of our differences and leveraging them for the betterment of our organization. At Inter Pipeline, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that values, represents, and supports the communities in which we work. We are committed to maintaining a respectful workplace and we are building a culture that supports the diverse needs of our employees. We welcome applications from all individuals including those who are Indigenous, racialized, of varied abilities and ethnicities, members of gender and sexually diverse communities, as well as with any other dimension of diversity.
