Manager, IT Business Partner Operations

Basic Function

HF Sinclair's Manager, IT Business Partner Operations provides leadership, partnership, direction, and guidance to teams across refining, midstream operations, and industrial application areas to ensure business goals are met through the effective provision of technology solutions and services. The Manager, IT Business Partner Operations will engage with key stakeholders in the business organization to develop and agree medium to long-term strategic plans and capability roadmaps, ensuring alignment with HFSinclair objectives and maximizing value capture for the function. He/she acts as the trusted lead business advisor, providing oversight and guidance to enable the successful delivery of specific projects, and influences the delivery of IT services. This role actively markets and promotes IT services and ensures that demand for these services is managed and prioritized effectively. The key to success is a broad knowledge of refining and midstream operations, industrial applications such as PI, Seeq, Mobile Operator, and related operational technology platforms, relevant business technologies, and industry trends; compelling communication to business leadership regarding how technology enables future business capability; and the ability/know-how to leverage the IT organization to drive successful delivery, considerate of local needs and enterprise direction.

 

This role will manage collaboration with senior leaders across refining and midstream operations and industrial application areas. The Manager will be expected to manage teams, both direct and indirect, to ensure the delivery and sustainability of the IT portfolio supporting operational excellence, reliability, maintainability, and safe, compliant operations.

Job Duties

• Serves as the IT partner for refining and midstream operations; builds strong relationships with operations leaders, site stakeholders, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and corporate functions to understand business priorities and technology needs
• Partners with operations stakeholders to define business outcomes, document requirements, prioritize demand, and develop technology roadmaps that support refining and midstream operations, industrial application modernization, reliability, risk reduction, and operational excellence.
• Leads and/or governs IT initiatives for Operations from intake through delivery, ensuring scope, business case, resource needs, risks, dependencies, and success measures are clearly understood and aligned with business objectives.
• Provides business-facing ownership for operations and industrial applications, ensuring solutions are configured, supported, enhanced, and governed to meet current and emerging refining and midstream business requirements.
• Facilitates cross-functional collaboration between operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering, IT, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, vendors, and managed service providers to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, and supportable solutions.
• Translates business requirements into functional designs, reporting needs, integration requirements, data flows, and support models for operations including PI, Seeq, Mobile Operator, and related platforms.
• Identifies opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve operations processes through technology, innovation, automation, analytics, integration, and improved user experience.
• Develops and maintains executive-ready communications, project updates, decision materials, process documentation, and value statements to support stakeholder alignment and investment decisions.
• Leads business users, project team members, and support resources to ensure adoption, clear accountability, effective knowledge transfer, and sustainable long-term support.
• Ensures solutions comply with corporate IT governance, cybersecurity requirements, architecture standards, change management practices, operational technology considerations, and support procedures.

 

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

Experience

A minimum of 8 years of experience in information technology, business relationship management, business analysis, application delivery, operations technology, industrial applications, or equivalent experience. Five years should include experience supporting refining, midstream, pipeline, manufacturing, industrial operations, or other regulated industrial environments.

 

Preferred Experience: 

Experience supporting refining and midstream operations, industrial application portfolios, operational technology environments, maintenance and reliability processes, manufacturing execution or plant information systems, business transformation initiatives, and vendor or consulting partner delivery.

Education Level

A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Accounting, Engineering, or related field is required.

 

Preferred Education: 

A Master’s of Information Systems or related discipline degree. 

 

Required Skills

General understanding of corporate IT governance practices, cybersecurity requirements, operational technology considerations, regulatory compliance, application lifecycle management, and data migration/integration concepts. Ability to lead business process improvement initiatives and implementations in some or all of the following areas: refining operations, midstream operations, industrial applications, maintenance, reliability, engineering, production planning, plant information, and operational reporting. Advanced knowledge of implementing and supporting business applications that may include industrial, operational, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and data platforms such as PI, Seeq, Mobile Operator, and related operational technology systems. Ability to effectively communicate with others through written and verbal communication. Advanced reading and writing skills, with the ability to perform intermediate mathematical calculations.

 

Preferred Skills: 

Refining, midstream, pipeline, manufacturing, industrial applications, or operational technology experience in the Oil & Gas industry.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

Responsible for managing approximately three to six exempt-level professional employees as well as contract staff for enterprise programs.

Work Conditions

Office based with up to 10% travel by land and air required. Driver based 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 sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movement. Job conditions may require standing, walking, 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.