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Title:  Electrical and Instrumentation Specialist

Date:  Dec 17, 2025
Location: 

Mississauga, ON, CA, L5J 2Y3

Basic Function

Petro-Canada Lubricants Inc. (PCLI), located in Mississauga, Ontario is seeking a full-time Electrical & Instrumentation Specialist. Reporting to Team Lead E&I, the E&I Reliability Specialist/Egineer is responsible for leading activities like technical troubleshooting, management of change, asset strategy, spare part strategy and optimization, preventive maintenance program, root cause analysis (RCA), resolution of bad actors, obsolescence management, alternate part repair/replacement, and turnaround scope development to name a few. This position supports E&I maintenance and planning, turnaround execution, capital projects, and specialists/engineers/supervisors from non-E&I disciplines including Process Safety and Environment/Health/Safety groups requiring support in E&I related matters. The responsibilities can change from time to time depending on business need and can be assigned accordingly.

Job Duties

  • Lead complex troubleshooting of E&I equipment while working with technicians, operators and other stakeholders.
  • Determine condition of E&I equipment for suitability to continue to run and potential for breakdown.
  • Develop scope of repair of E&I equipment.
  • Predictive and Preventive:
    • Regular monitoring of critical assets, understand cause(s) in consultation with stakeholders and supporting roles. Identify corrective actions, report through various channels and SAP and help prioritize against other competing priorities.
    • Develop, optimize, improve preventive or predictive maintenance plans. Steward the performance of predictive/preventative programs for assets in their respective area.
    • Steward continuous improvement in predictive and preventive maintenance strategies.
  • Lead the identification, planning and implementation of reliability improvement initiatives
  • Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for events impacting asset reliability
  • Lead the development of Management of Change (MOC) processes for Maintenance changes. Lead small design changes, alternate part selection, reliability improvement initiatives.
  • Lead the development and implementation of asset strategies, obsolescence strategies, spare parts and optimization
  • Support Turnaround/Outage scope development (ensuring asset proactive repairs ensure the expected level of reliability), planning and execution (e.g. Shutdown support for equipment, QA/QC for repairs, Startup support)
  • Support scope development, planning and execution for corrective maintenance repairs. Identify spare part requirement to support maintenance work.
  • Contribute to the preparation of annual maintenance/expense/capital budgets and Long-Range Plan (LRP).
  • Provide input into capital project design, FAT/SAT, commissioning
  • Provide reliability input into Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) reviews

 

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

Experience

  • Minimum five years of heavy industrial experience in electrical, instrumentation and control systems troubleshooting, selection and design, commissioning and maintenance/reliability

Education Level

  • P. Eng or eligibility for P.Eng is an asset
  • Degree in Electrical / Instrumentation / Electromechanical / Mechatronics
  • Technologist Diploma in Electrical / Instrumentation / Electromechanical / Mechatronics with additional years of relevant experience

Required Skills

  • Have strong safety mindset
  • Excellent time management, prioritization and multi-tasking skills. Ability to switch between multiple tasks in quick succession while giving calibrated responses as needed for each task
  • Driven to solving problems. Apply right sized solutions while considering short-term and long-term risks, benefits and cost
  • Achieve results with teamwork. While working with multi-disciplinary stake holders and hourly employees, exhibit excellent teamwork and non-authoritative leadership to achieve results and targets
  • Is a lifelong learner with ability to self-learn at fast pace. Excellent understanding of theories and apply to design, installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting of electrical, instrumentation and control system equipment
  • Ability to determine probability of failure to support risk ranking of a failure by using consequence of failure and risk matrix

Work Conditions

  • High degree of activity – high stress when addressing significant incident and emergency activities
  • Ability to be at heights of around 150ft while climbing up the ladders mounted on the refinery distillation columns
  • Ability to lift 25lb of weight
  • Ability to work near high noise area with hearing protection
  • Ability to enter confined spaces
  • Ability to work outside in all weather conditions with personal protective equipment (PPE) like hard hat, eye protection, fire retardant clothing, ear protection, safety boots, gloves etc.
  • Although it’s rare but should have ability to use PPE like full face mask for SCABA, harness for fall protection

Our One HF Sinclair Culture:

At HF Sinclair, we are united through our One HF Sinclair Culture, which is underpinned by our five core values of Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, Ownership and Inclusion. Developed to empower our people, our five core cultural values are at the heart of everything we do and extend to how we engage our stakeholders. These values influence our decisions, shape our behaviors and keep us connected across the entire organization. We maintain a true Safety culture for our employees, communities, environments and customers. Our goal is to make sure everyone returns home safely each day. We have a long-standing commitment to Integrity and ethical behavior and do what is right for our employees, investors, communities and the environment. We encourage employees to Step Up and Stand Out by championing a culture of Teamwork and Ownership. We foster a culture of Inclusion by encouraging diversity of experiences, viewpoints and backgrounds. What makes each of us different, together makes us stronger.

About HF Sinclair Corporation

HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company that produces and markets high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. In addition, subsidiaries of HF Sinclair produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and export products to more than 80 countries. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to its refineries and the petroleum industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer

HF Sinclair Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other prohibited ground of discrimination.

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