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Controls Systems Application and Management Specialist * Saint John, New Brunswick * Full-time permanent position * Competitive salary commensurate with experience, bonus, benefits, relocation assistance * Opportunity to work on the beautiful East Coast, where you can enjoy the ocean at your door, untouched wilderness, pristine beaches, and affordable living * Excellent opportunity with a well-established, stable company with a strong commitment to their employees, the environment, community, and the next generation Who are you? You\xe2\x80\x99re an experienced IT professional and technologist, looking for an exciting new opportunity to take on a senior specialist role with one of Canada\xe2\x80\x99s top 100 employers? This may be the perfect role for you. You\xe2\x80\x99re looking to join a collaborative and professional team, committed to diversity and inclusion along with a safety-first culture. If you\xe2\x80\x99re up for a new and exciting challenge, with a company that can offer you stability, professional development, and a chance to work with like-minded, values-driven individuals, look no further. Who is the employer? The Raise (https://ianmartin.com/) has partnered with our client, a family-owned company, founded over 90 years ago, with operations throughout Eastern Canada, northeast US and Ireland. They operate bulk furnace oil and propane outlets across Atlantic Canada, New England and Quebec as well as select locations in eastern Ontario, almost all of which is supplied from their refinery in NB. Our client is focused on providing exceptional service and high-quality products to their customers and a strong commitment to their employees, the environment, community, and the next generation. What you\xe2\x80\x99ll be doing As the new Controls Systems Application and Management Specialist, you will be reporting to the Corporate Technology Manager and responsible for overseeing the secure and efficient operation and administration of the Refinery control systems applications and information networks. This role is critically essential to enabling and supporting numerous groups to complete their duties for HSE critical tasks such as asset management and equipment monitoring. Practically speaking you will: * Be responsible for ensuring enabling business critical information is secure, available, and maintained at the highest integrity level to allow corporate strategic planning to occur. * Be responsible for operating and maintaining the refining process optimization and enhancement tools and development environment. * Develop recommendations for design changes, improvements and optimization of operations and services to support growth, reliability, automation and functional enhancements to ensure proper and efficient operations of control system applications and administration of the domain policy for safe and controlled operations. * Lead upgrades as approved via Management of Change (MOC) process by executing work, managing vendor interface, oversee testing and coordinating installations . * Own the technical interface with third party vendors providing liaison between the client and vendors to advocate for the client in application management requirements. Collaborate with groups across the refinery to understand requirements and translate them to actionable initiatives. * Develop and deploy cyber security enhancements and strengthen configurations as well as monitor and manage patching and validation methods to satisfy policies and best practices. * Configure and maintain automation systems databases and repositories. Ensure plant historian data is being collected and stored for archival use and analysis. * Coordinate data interfacing through communication servers and services to enable 3rd party applications to perform their functions. * Develop and operate backup mechanisms to satisfy the requirements of the identified targets and requirements and ensure validation, testing and duplication practices satisfy policy and best practices . * Develop a reliability plan to manage and evolve the life cycle of systems to ensure peak performance and migration to future technology practices and timely investments to ensure proper operation. Perform required PM\xe2\x80\x99s (Preventive Maintenance) to ensure disruption free operation and recommend optimizations for system performance and overall operations. Verify and maintain compliance with EULA (End-user license agreement) software licensing agreements. The Details This is a full-time permanent position based in Saint John, New Brunswick working on the regular work schedule . If relocation is required, assistance can be provided. In addition to a competitive annual salary, you\xe2\x80\x99ll enjoy comprehensive group benefits, performance-based bonus plan, vacation, flexible work program and opportunities for professional development. Qualifications * Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s or master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or equivalent. * Overall 10+ years of experience in IT including 5+ years of industrial environment experience (refining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, chemical, pulp& paper industries). * NBSCETT PTech Certification, Red Seal , P.Eng would be considered as an asset. * Demonstrates skills and knowledge to develop, implement and monitor software application environments to ensure their continual peak performance and operation. * Experience in operating and maintaining the industrial process optimization and enhancement tools and development environment. * Demonstrates knowledge of End-user License agreement (EULA) and licensing agreements to maintain compliance for the software environment and for aligning and maintaining backup strategies to ensure compliance with recovery and business continuity standards and business continuity in the event of an incident. * Strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical, attention to detail, self-starter, ability to multitask. * Ability to effectively contribute to a collaborative and a fast-paced team environment. How to Apply: We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified people to apply. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. At Ian Martin/Raise, we connect people with meaningful work. We work with people like you for similar technical roles. If you apply, be sure to create a profile with us. That way, great technical jobs will come to you before they even get to the job boards.

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