Control Systems Lead

The Control Systems Lead provides leadership, direction, and accountability for the Control Systems team, supporting all three Methanex Geismar plants.

The role is responsible for building and maintaining a capable, engaged, and high-performing team that safely and effectively supports plant operations, maintenance, reliability, projects, outages, turnarounds, and continuous improvement initiatives.

This role establishes team priorities, allocates resources, manages workload and performance, develops team capability, supports recruitment and succession planning, and fosters a collaborative culture aligned with Methanex core values, site priorities, and leadership expectations.

Working closely with Technical, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Projects, and site leadership teams, the Control Systems Lead provides strategic and technical leadership for instrumentation, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), process controls, automation, and associated electrical and control infrastructure. The role oversees the evaluation, prioritization, planning, and execution of Plant Change Requests, Technical Service Requests, and small OPEX modifications, ensuring work is properly scoped, risk assessed, resourced, and executed safely, cost-effectively, and in compliance with applicable technical standards and the Management of Change process. The position serves as the site subject matter expert for control systems-related capital projects, providing technical guidance, design assurance, and support through project development, construction, commissioning, and startups.

The Control Systems Lead is accountable for the reliability, availability, security, and long-term performance of plant control systems through effective technical governance, lifecycle management, cybersecurity practices, and cross-functional collaboration. The role leads Control Systems planning and execution support for major outages, pit stops, and turnarounds across all 3 Geismar plants, manages team budgets, contractors, and service providers, and oversees strategic reliability and risk-reduction initiatives, including the G3 DCS and SIS Vulnerabilities Project. This role also ensures the maintenance and continuous improvement of technical standards, procedures, system configurations, critical drawings, P&IDs, and related documentation, including oversight of Instrument and Electrical drawing control, while monitoring performance, managing risks, and driving the successful delivery of business and operational objectives.