Senior SCADA Engineer

At South Bow, we do one thing, and we do it well: safely moving oil between some of the world’s most critical markets. We’re building our high-performing team with versatile thinkers who thrive on solving big challenges together. If you’re ready for a position where your skills are highly valued and your work is incredibly important, we want to meet you. Bring your talents to a new streamlined energy company, dedicated to operational, commercial and safety excellence as we pursue our critical purpose of delivering the energy people need. 

The Opportunity

Are you a technically skilled engineer who thrives in collaborative settings and is passionate about driving positive change? We are looking for a proactive individual eager to make a meaningful impact by enabling efficient and reliable control room operations. If you enjoy working with both technology and people, and are always seeking ways to innovate and improve, this role offers an exciting challenge and the opportunity to grow alongside a dedicated team.

In this position, you will maintain and support advanced SCADA and real-time control systems that ensure the safe and reliable operation of pipelines across Canada and the U.S. Deep technical expertise in SCADA systems, real-time control, and OT environments is essential, as is strong collaboration across operations, engineering, IT/OT, cybersecurity, and external vendors.

Your contributions will directly empower control room operations, streamlining workflows and optimizing performance. By actively seeking improvements, you’ll help foster a culture of continuous advancement and operational excellence.
 

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and sustain enterprise SCADA systems for safe, reliable, real‑time monitoring and control of pipeline operations.

• Provide senior‑level operational support, including troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis for SCADA and control system issues.

• Develop and maintain critical real‑time applications that support operational safety, reliability, and performance.

• Execute and govern changes through Management of Change (MOC) processes in alignment with Control Room Management (CRM) regulatory requirements.

• Provide technical assurance and peer review, ensuring validated designs, configurations, testing, and production readiness.

• Align SCADA systems with control room operations, including alarm philosophy, abnormal operating conditions, and human‑factors considerations.

• Translate operational and business requirements into functional and technical specifications for SCADA and control system solutions.

• Support regulatory compliance, inspections, and audits, including documentation, evidence preparation, and remediation of findings.

• Lead system lifecycle management and modernization initiatives, addressing obsolescence, upgrades, and integration of new pipeline assets.

• Support governance, business continuity, disaster recovery, and OT cybersecurity to ensure resilient, compliant pipeline control systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical, Computer, Automation, or equivalent).

• 10+ years AVEVA OASyS SCADA and critical real-time control systems in liquids pipeline operations.

• Strong experience developing highly reliable real-time applications.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex system issues and manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.

• Proven track record of delivering innovative solutions, leading change, and delivering tangible business benefits.

• Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.

• Professional Engineer designation with APEGA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in liquids pipeline control center operations

• SCADA architectures

• Advanced experience in at least one programming language, e.g. VB, C#, SQL, Python

• Display standards and development

• SCADA and measurement protocols

• Liquids SCADA configuration

Additional Role Requirements

• Provide 24x7 on-call support to the control center on a rotational schedule

• Provide project and operational support that may be outside normal working hours

About our business

South Bow's existing oil & liquids pipeline infrastructure connects Alberta crude oil supplies to U.S. refining markets in Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast.  We remain committed to meeting the energy needs of North Americans today, while advancing our Liquids Pipelines System for the demands of the future. Connecting growing Canadian and U.S. crude oil supply to key markets, leveraging existing assets and seeking new opportunities to continue to provide our customers with access to the destinations they need.

South Bow is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program supervised by the U.S. government.

Learn more

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Thank you for choosing South Bow in your career search.

* Depending on qualifications, the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.

* Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country in which the position is based with no restrictions.

* All positions require background screening. Some require criminal and/or credit checks to comply with regulations.

* South Bow is committed to provide employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available on request during the recruitment process. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats or communication supports by contacting human.resources@southbow.com.