Senior Controls Engineer - Midstream

Overview

Join HF Sinclair at a pivotal point as we advance modernization, standardization, and long‑term reliability across our midstream operations within the Process Controls Engineering team. Working with an experienced leadership team in the Technical Services department that empowers and actively supports expanded ownership, influence over technical direction, and continued growth in system-level responsibility and technical authority.

This role is designed with a strong emphasis on work-life balance of primarily planned work hours, minimal after-hours support, and no routine on-call expectations. HF Sinclair Midstream is seeking an experienced Senior Controls Engineer to provide technical expertise across enterprise systems. You will play a central role in driving optimization, standardization, modernization, and operational excellence of our truck loading terminals, tank batteries, and pipelines.

Lead cross‑functional collaboration to ensure process control solutions are designed and executed for long‑term reliability, maintainability, and life-cycle performance of midstream assets. The location is open to several locations, Artesia, NM, Dallas, TX, Salt Lake City, UT, Casper, WY, Cheyenne, WY, Tulsa, OK.

• Define, strengthen, and govern control standards and architecture across PLC, SCADA, HMI, and Terminal Management System (TMS) platforms.
• Mature and evolve control processes, templates, reusable libraries, and standard design practices to support long‑term maintainability and consistency.
• Evaluate, recommend, and champion new technologies, processes, and concepts that improve efficiency, reliability, scalability, and lifecycle performance of midstream automation systems.
• Lead technical collaboration with stakeholders to define project scope, support change management, develop cost estimates with procurement, and contribute to technically sound, on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Lead end‑to‑end system integration including risk assessment, design, commissioning, lifecycle planning, cross‑functional technical alignment, and hazardous area technical considerations.
• Enhance and develop technical documentation including logic diagrams, cause-and-effect matrices, control narratives, and wiring and termination drawings to ensure technical quality and standard adherence.

Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their supervisor, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion

15-30 years of experience in Controls, Process Controls Engineering, or Automation within midstream or other Oil & Gas environments (industrial experience also considered).

• Demonstrated ownership or stewardship of control system architecture, standards, and technical governance.
• Managing the technical lifecycle of control systems and/or process automation solutions.
• Cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues impacting critical 24x7 operational systems.
• Demonstrated technical responsibility for control system projects from concept through commissioning, including design tradeoffs, risk decisions, and outcomes.
• Evaluation of control loop performance relative to process dynamics, control strategy intent, and operational objectives.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Controls Engineering, or related Engineering discipline.

• Technical risk assessment and mitigation applied to control system design, integration, and lifecycle decisions.
• Root cause analysis of complex system issues and translating findings into corrective action(s).
• Strong understanding of process control principles and control system behavior, including the role of regulatory control loops in safe, stable, and reliable operations.
• Ability to critically evaluate and guide SCADA (Wonderware experience a plus) and HMI (Red Lion experience a plus) user interface design to ensure usability, alarm effectiveness, and alignment with operational needs.
• Ability to read, analyze, and modify complex control documentation, ladder logic (Proficy Machine Edition experience a plus), schematics, and drawings.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including cross-functional…