Process Technical Specialist

Basic Function

The Process Technical Specialist serves as a refinery and enterprise subject matter expert and technical authority for assigned process technologies. The position provides technical leadership and recommendations that support safe, reliable, compliant, and economically optimized operation across multiple facilities or business units.This role supports both immediate operating needs and longer-term technology stewardship by resolving complex technical and reliability issues, establishing performance expectations and operating practices, evaluating improvement opportunities, and helping sites translate technical recommendations into measurable business outcomes. The specialist provides proactive unit health monitoring as well as reactive troubleshooting, engineering studies, modeling, and detailed technical evaluations.The position develops organizational capability by mentoring and training Process Engineers and Production personnel, leading technical networks, and sharing evolving technology and industry best practices.Key interfaces include site Process Engineering and Production personnel, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Process Safety, Projects, Supply Chain, Commercial teams, technology contractors and licensors, catalyst and chemical vendors, and external technical organizations.

Job Duties

Technical Leadership & Problem Resolution

• Serve as the SME for assigned technologies and provide technical leadership across supported facilities.
• Lead resolution of complex, recurring, high-impact, and cross-functional issues using engineering analysis, modeling, and root cause investigations.
• Support sites during incidents, reliability concerns, startups, shutdowns, turnarounds, and emergencies.
• Provide independent recommendations that mitigate safety, environmental, reliability, business, and financial risks.

Performance Monitoring & Optimization

• Establish KPIs, benchmarks, operating envelopes, and improvement targets.
• Identify performance gaps, emerging risks, chronic issues, and optimization opportunities with site teams.
• Use data, modeling, and engineering analysis to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency.
• Evaluate economics, risk, implementation requirements, and expected value to support decision-making.
• Influence operating strategies, turnaround scope, and capital priorities through technical expertise.

Technology Stewardship & Standards

• Develop and maintain technology standards, best practices, operating guidelines, and performance expectations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, licensors, catalysts, chemicals, and industry developments for adoption or standardization.
• Share knowledge through training, technical networks, guidance documents, and cross-site collaboration.
• Represent the company with licensors, vendors, research organizations, and industry groups as needed.

Capital Projects, Turnarounds & Catalyst Management

• Support capital projects, revamps, debottlenecking, technology upgrades, reliability initiatives, and turnarounds.
• Participate in technical reviews, startup planning, performance testing, and post-implementation evaluations.
• Provide leadership for catalyst and chemical selection, optimization, performance monitoring, and implementation.
• Fulfill Catalyst Management Standard requirements and maintain independent technical judgment in vendor interactions.

Training, Mentoring & Organizational Capability

• Develop training, mentoring, and technical support programs to strengthen organizational capability.
• Support onboarding and development of engineers and technical personnel.
• Create learning materials and share lessons learned, best practices, and industry developments.
• Identify competency gaps and support capability development.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Site Engagement

• Provide leadership within technical teams and communities of practice.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Projects, Process Safety, Commercial, and Leadership teams.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Conduct site visits to support troubleshooting, technology reviews, performance improvement, and field verification.

Other Duties

• Perform additional duties, projects, and special assignments as assigned.

Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of technical experience in the refining industry is required.
• Demonstrated experience applying engineering fundamentals to refinery process operations, troubleshooting, optimization, reliability improvement, and technical decision-making.
• Experience leading complex technical evaluations and working effectively with cross-functional and multi-site teams.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical recommendations clearly and influence decisions without relying solely on formal authority.

Education Level

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, is required.

Required Skills

Ability to lead and direct the work of other associates. A significant amount of experience in engineering, as well as experience in the energy industry, is essential. Advanced reading and writing skills; excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with others; and the ability to perform advanced mathematical calculations.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

Requires working closely with outside engineering firms, other companies, and in some case governmental agencies. No direct supervision is required: ability to lead cross functional teams is required

Work Conditions

Office and refinery based and with up to 20% travel by land and air required. Petroleum refinery, warehouse/plant environment and out of doors, including but not limited to chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks, rotating equipment, and working in confined spaces. Subject to all weather including outdoors, and varying road conditions.

Benefits

HF Sinclair offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Paid Time-Off
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with match
• Educational Reimbursement
• Parental Bonding Time
• Employee Discounts

Physical Requirements

Job conditions require standing, walking, sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, lifting and/or carrying up to 50 lbs, climbing up to 100 ft, perceive color differences, required to wear personal protective equipment (beards not permitted) as needed and a respirator in emergency situations. Job conditions may require twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, and reaching or grasping.

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 lubricants and specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to our refineries and the petroleum industry. HF Sinclair markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states and supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,750 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand to more than 350 additional locations throughout the country. HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in New Mexico. 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.

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.