Site Digital & Automation Lead, North Creek

Role Summary

The Site Digital & Automation Lead is a full member of the Site Leadership Team and a key leader within the PGS Network & Automation organization. This role provides strategic direction and leadership for all digital and automation capabilities at the site, serving as the primary advisor and partner to Site Leadership and above‑site stakeholders. The role is accountable for shaping, owning, and executing the site’s integrated digital and automation portfolio, ensuring full alignment with site business priorities and network strategies.

This role drives long‑term value creation, investment prioritization, and portfolio governance across capital and expense initiatives. It leads and develops the site digital and automation team, ensuring the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of critical digital, automation, and infrastructure systems, while delivering operational efficiency, quality/safety compliance, cybersecurity, business continuity and reliable system support.

• Serve as a full member of the Site Leadership Team.
• Collaborate with the Site Leadership Team to ensure alignment of site and network strategies with digital and automation capabilities.
• Lead teams of colleagues and contract resources to deliver digital and automation capital projects and manage expense portfolios, ensuring customer needs are met; uphold standardized platforms and oversee strategic outsourcing to key integrators.
• Act as the primary contact for all digital and automation colleagues located at the site.
• Build and maintain relationships with PGS Enabling Teams and Digital Organizations.
• Lead and participate in network‑wide digital and automation initiatives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of digital & automation professionals.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide growth opportunities.
• Build a collaborative, innovative environment.

• Develop and own the site’s 3–5 year digital and automation strategy.
• Provide strategic direction and establish business cases for large capital or product‑focused programs and technology portfolio plans; continually evaluate and deploy emerging technologies to realize value.
• Implement IMEx elements, including Structured Gembas, Visual Management, and the CI Loop, to drive process improvements using digital tools.
• Support site continuous improvement initiatives and share best practices and drive business adoption.
• Provide oversight of the site digital & automation portfolio, championing AI and innovation through integrated planning and reliable project execution.
• Maintain a strong awareness of automation and digitization developments in the external environment.
• Oversee contract and license management for digital and automation systems, ensuring compliance and effective administration.
• Ensure effective implementation and continuous oversight of lifecycle processes for all digital and automated systems and infrastructure.

• Deliver dependable digital & automation support services, responding quickly to real‑time system issues while maintaining stable, high‑performing digital and automation systems.
• Ensure Automation Engineering support, including hardware, instrumentation, and control systems ownership.
• Take responsibility for change management pertaining to digital and automation infrastructure on site, including managing outages and communicating with end users.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all digital and automation operations at the site, including escalating issues to the wider PGS Network and Automation organization.
• Collaborate with the PGS Network and Automation organization to maintain service levels for crisis response, digital incident management, and service request processes.
• Oversee the provision of technical support to Engineering and Operations partners for automated systems throughout the lifecycle of the equipment.

• Manage and coordinate cybersecurity activities and ensure compliance with digital and automation infrastructure & architecture standards execution.
• Own change management for technology infrastructure, including…