Director Maintenance Excellence

Basic Function

HF Sinclair is seeking a Director of Maintenance Exellence to who oversees and directs all refinery locations in the Maintenance Excellence department. Responsible for scheduling, planning, execution, reliability-based maintenance activities, and effective work practices and procedures. Leads benchmarking of site maintenance performance vs. industry for competitiveness and effectiveness; identifies opportunities for improvement; supports improvement efforts.

Job Duties

• Oversees the Maintenance network consisting of maintenance managers from the entire fleet. 
• Conducts network meetings that promote information sharing and networking across sites and adoption of best practices.
• Develops a vision for maintenance network and function that supports overall refining vision of safe, clean, reliable, and competitive operation. Lead maintenance network to aspiring to that vision and share learnings. 
• Acts as a resource of industry best practices and developments in the maintenance fields.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting the best practices for future implementation in SAP EAM Maintenance workflow.
• Stewards super user network for SAP EAM to innovate and improve the system to support the maintenance vision.
• Directs innovation and technology development that supports improvements towards maintenance excellence. 
• Takes learnings from Lean initiatives at various sites and develops the HF Sinclair Lean Maintenance model. Support continuous improvement at sites that have been implemented, and drive the implementation for those who have not yet started. 
• Leads need analysis for various corporate maintenance practices that do not currently exist. Steward the development and implementation of work practices across the fleet.
• Develops and continuously improve metrics that show the health of each site’s maintenance and the development of tools to make metrics visible and easily obtainable.
• Oversees career development opportunities for maintenance professionals throughout the organization.

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

Experience

A minimum of 15 years of experience related to refinery routine maintenance and reliability are required.

Education Level

A minimum of a Master’s degree in Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience, is required.

Required Skills

Ability to lead and direct senior-level managers in the improvement of reliability and maintenance. Strong interpersonal and decision-making skills and ability to build technical and operational capability. Good spreadsheet, database, and word processing applications knowledge; strong written and verbal communication, negotiating, time-management and organizational skills. Ability to communicate effectively with others and influence multiple operations. Advanced reading and writing skills and the ability to perform basic mathematical calculations.

Prefered Skills:

A significant amount of experience in the energy industry and special training in project management is preferred.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

Responsible for the direct supervision approximately of one to two professional employees.

Work Conditions

Office-based with warehouse and refinery environment exposure with travel up to 50% of the time by land or air. Up to 60% of the time will be required to work in a petroleum refinery environment. Subject to all weather 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

We are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment, ensuring our employees have the resources needed to thrive professionally and personally.

Benefit eligibility is governed by official plan documents, for more details visit Total Rewards .

Physical Requirements

Job conditions require standing, walking, sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise finger and hand movements, reaching or grasping, climbing up to 250 ft, ability to wear personal protective equipment (beards not permitted). 

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 Pacic 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.