{"id":3770355,"url":"https://alion.io/job/par-pacific-pipeline-automation-engineer","title":"Pipeline Automation Engineer","company":{"id":2032488,"name":"Par Pacific","domain":"parpacific.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/parpacific","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Billings, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T21:25:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T08:45:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"Pipeline Automation Engineer\nThe Opportunity\n·Pipeline Automation Engineer at a growth-oriented downstream energy company\n·Competitive salary with a strong comprehensive benefits package\n·Based in either Billings, Montana (preferred), or Houston, Texas, this position supports pipeline, terminal, storage, truck-loading, rail, and related logistics assets in Montana, Wyoming, Washington, and other assigned locations. Limited travel to Hawaii and Houston may also be required.\n·Reporting to the Logistics Engineering & Integrity Manager, you’ll provide technical engineering support for the automation and control systems used across Par Pacific Logistics (Mainland).\nKey activities include:\nAutomation and Control Systems\nDesign, configure, program, test, commission, maintain, and troubleshoot industrial automation and control systems used in pipeline, terminal, storage, loading, and related logistics operations.\nSupport supervisory control and data acquisition systems, programmable logic controllers, remote terminal units, human-machine interfaces, servers, workstations, historians, telemetry, industrial networks, and automated field equipment associated with product movement, measurement, loading, alarms, and shutdown functions.\nDevelop and modify control logic, graphics, alarm configurations, data points, communications interfaces, calculations, and reports in accordance with approved standards and change-control requirements.\nProvide timely technical support for control-system failures, communication interruptions, unreliable signals, application issues, and other automation problems that affect safe or continuous operations.\nAnalyze operating and system data to identify recurring problems, control-system performance concerns, and opportunities to improve reliability, operator effectiveness, and equipment availability.\nReliability and Lifecycle Management\nDevelop and support maintenance, inspection, testing, backup, recovery, patching, upgrade, and obsolescence-management practices for assigned automation and operational technology systems.\nMonitor system health and availability, investigate failures, complete or support root cause analyses, and implement corrective actions that reduce repeat events and operating risk.\nMaintain recoverable system backups, configuration baselines, software, firmware and license records, spare-parts recommendations, and restoration procedures for critical systems.\nEvaluate lifecycle risks and develop practical replacement priorities, cost estimates, and implementation plans; coordinate maintenance, upgrades, and cutovers to control risk and minimize disruption.\nUse SAP, PCMS, SCADA tools, and other approved systems to maintain assigned work, equipment, inspection, configuration, and technical records.\nProjects Commissioning and Change Management\nLead or support automation portions of maintenance and capital projects from concept and scope development through design, testing, commissioning, start-up, and turnover to operations.\nDevelop technical scopes, functional requirements, design criteria, control narratives, equipment specifications, cost estimates, schedules, and bid-evaluation information; review related vendor and engineering deliverables.\nPlan and perform factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, loop checks, functional testing, commissioning, start-up support, and post-start-up performance verification.\nFollow applicable Management of Change processes and ensure automation changes receive required technical, operational, safety, cybersecurity, and regulatory review before implementation.\nProvide technical direction to contractors, integrators, vendors, and consultants; verify that work meets approved scope, company standards, safety requirements, documentation expectations, and acceptance criteria.\nSafety Regulatory Compliance and Operational Technology Security\nPerform work in accordance with company safety requirements, approved engineering practices, site procedures, and applicable federal, state, and local requirements.\nSupport compliance activities applicable to assigned pipeline and logistics assets, which may include PHMSA requirements under 49 CFR Parts 192 and 195, control room management, DOT Operator Qualification requirements, OSHA standards, environmental permits, and company operating requirements.\nSupport control room management and alarm management by maintaining accurate SCADA information, alarm setpoints and descriptions, change records, controller displays, point-to-point verification, and other required documentation.\nParticipate in hazard reviews, risk assessments, pre-start-up reviews, incident investigations, audit preparation, regulatory inspections, and corrective-action development involving automation or control systems.\nPartner with information technology and cybersecurity resources to protect operational technology systems through approved network architecture, access controls, secure remote access, patching, backup and recovery, vulnerability response, and incident-response practices. Promptly escalate suspected cybersecurity events, unauthorized changes, or system vulnerabilities.\nExercise stop-work authority and promptly communicate conditions that could affect employee safety, environmental protection, product integrity, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, or continued operation of an asset.\nDocumentation Data and Technical Standards\nMaintain accurate drawings, control narratives, network diagrams, logic documentation, alarm records, point lists, equipment information, test results, procedures, backups, and system-change history using consistent standards across assigned assets.\nVerify the accuracy of data exchanged among SCADA, historians, measurement systems, reporting tools, SAP, PCMS, and other approved applications; prepare technical reports and recommendations for operating and business leaders.\nProtect system credentials, configurations, security information, proprietary data, and other sensitive technical or commercial information in accordance with company requirements.\nCollaboration and Technical Support\nWork with operations, control center personnel, maintenance, engineering, integrity, safety, environmental, scheduling, information technology, vendors, and contractors to resolve issues and plan work.\nCommunicate technical information clearly and develop or support training, job aids, operating guidance, troubleshooting procedures, and knowledge-transfer activities for employees who use or maintain automation systems.\nProvide technical support during system failures, abnormal operating conditions, planned outages, commissioning activities, and emergency response when automation expertise is required.\nIdentify opportunities to standardize systems, improve reliability, reduce manual work, strengthen security, and improve the quality and availability of operating information.\nPerform other duties and accept additional responsibilities as assigned.\nNote: This description is intended to give you a general overview of the position. Additional responsibilities and opportunities may be identified based on current business needs.\nQualifications\nTo meet the basic qualifications for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship.\nAdditional qualifications include:\nRequired:\nBachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, automation or controls engineering, chemical engineering, or another closely related engineering discipline.\nAt least five years of relevant experience supporting industrial automation, control systems, instrumentation, or operational technology in pipeline, terminal, midstream, refining, petrochemical, manufacturing, utility, or another process-industry environment, including hands-on PLC, RTU, SCADA, or HMI work.\nWorking knowledge of industrial communications and networks, data acquisition, system backups, operational technology cybersecurity, and engineering documents such as schematics, control narratives, input and output lists, network diagrams, and test procedures.\nExperience supporting automation projects, system changes, commissioning, start-up, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis in an operating industrial environment.\nAbility to manage assignments across multiple facilities, respond to changing priorities, work independently with general direction, and recognize when an issue requires additional expertise or escalation.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with operations, maintenance, engineering, information technology, cybersecurity, contractors, vendors, and business leaders.\nValid driver's license with a driving record that meets company requirements.\nAbility to travel regularly to assigned logistics sites in Montana, Wyoming, and Washington and occasionally to Hawaii, Houston, or other company locations, including nonstandard hours when project or urgent operating needs require support.\nAbility to obtain and maintain any training, qualification, medical clearance, security access, or regulatory status required for assigned work.\nPreferred:\nExperience supporting automation and control systems for hazardous-liquid pipelines, terminals, storage facilities, loading racks, pump stations, rail or transload facilities, or related midstream assets.\nExperience with Rockwell or Allen-Bradley PLC platforms, or comparable industrial controllers; SCADA or HMI platforms; and common industrial protocols and telemetry technologies.\nExperience with pipeline measurement, custody transfer, tank gauging, leak detection, alarm management, historian applications, or loading-control systems.\nWorking knowledge of PHMSA pipeline safety and control room management requirements, DOT Operator Qualification programs, and industry standards applicable to pipeline automation and control systems.\nExperience with operational technology cybersecurity, control-system network architecture, secure remote access, vulnerability management, backup and recovery, and cybersecurity incident response.\nExperience using SAP, PCMS, maintenance-management or document-control systems, and managing integrator or contractor work through commissioning and operational turnover.\nProfessional Engineer licensure, ISA Certified Automation Professional certification, Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional certification, project-management certification, or comparable relevant credential.\nAbout Us\nAt Par Pacific, we own and operate market-leading energy and infrastructure businesses in logistically complex markets. We have built a team of downstream industry veterans and subject matter experts to lead our organization with an entrepreneurial spirit and a collaborative, problem solving approach. We bring our diverse strengths and motivation to complex markets where we seek out diamonds in the rough. As a nimble, growing organization, we actively pursue new opportunities with corporate financing know-how, respond to local market demands, and adapt to changing external environments.\nMore Good Reasons to Work for Par Pacific\nUnique Culture and RICH Values\nThere is nothing ordinary about Par Pacific -- a niche player in the energy space. And there's certainly nothing ordinary about Par Pacific employees. We are driven, hardworking, entrepreneurial-minded professionals who love to win. Our RICH values describe how we approach our work: Respect for Others, Integrity, Collaborative Innovation, and Heart. If that describes you, you'll fit right in.\nLocation, Location, Location\nBecause Par Pacific operates in some of the most beautiful places throughout the country, our employees get to make these places their home and enrich their lives. You will work in Billings, Montana, the heart of Yellowstone Country. We have outdoor recreation in all directions and are less than an hour from the mountains. 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