Chemist

HF Sinclair is seeking a Chemist to join the El Dorado Refinery. This role involves conducting non-routine to complex chemistry and laboratory assignments with minimal supervision, and may include leading the work of others depending on location.

Responsibilities

• Samples and conducts all levels of tests, and trains others to perform standard tests on raw materials, intermediates, and finished products.
• Ensures testing is carried out per established methods and procedures.
• Ensures quality of work through quality assurance testing, documentation, and analysis.
• Records, reports, and certifies results.
• Develops new methods and procedures.
• Diagnoses laboratory equipment malfunctions, solves problems, and repairs laboratory equipment and machinery.
• Performs routine to complex corrective maintenance and calibrations on laboratory equipment.
• Creates QA documents and protocols.
• Supports other departments in sampling, testing, and compliance monitoring.
• Maintains lab supplies and equipment, including ordering supplies.
• Operates chromatographs.
• Ships samples designated as hazardous and verifies hazardous samples are shipped in conformance with the CFR.
• Monitors drinking water streams for compliance.
• Checks emissions compliance (state certified).
• Works with outside testing laboratories to coordinate special requests and compliance testing.
• Monitors process control of plant streams, purity of products, and composition of fuel gases, liquefied petroleum products, and various levels of hydrogen.
• Analyzes data, documents results, and ensures laboratory data is maintained.
• Provides support to operations with product blending.
• Performs special assignments or tasks as determined by the supervisor.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry or a related field.
• Advanced knowledge of laboratory testing and ability to apply this knowledge.
• Working knowledge of petroleum products and testing.
• Ability to train and lead the work of others.
• Ability to perform advanced mathematical calculations.
• Intermediate reading and writing skills, with effective written and verbal communication abilities.

Supervisory Responsibility

May lead the work of others regularly and may be designated as relief lab supervisor if needed.

Work Conditions

• Office-based with occasional refinery visits.
• Up to 10% travel by land and air required.
• Petroleum refinery/industrial environment, including exposure to chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks, and rotating equipment.
• Subject to all weather conditions and varying road conditions.

Physical Requirements

• Standing, precise hand and finger movements, and visual inspections.
• Reaching or grasping, and wearing personal protective equipment (beards not permitted).
• Walking, sitting, twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, talking, or hearing.
• Lifting and/or carrying up to 10 lbs, pushing and/or pulling up to 10 lbs.
• Perceiving color differences.

Benefits

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

About the Company

HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company producing and marketing high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel, and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington, and Utah, marketing refined products in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, and neighboring Plains states. The company supplies fuels to over 1,500 branded stations and licenses the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations. Subsidiaries produce and market base oils and specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands, exporting to more than 80 countries. HF Sinclair also produces renewable diesel at facilities in Wyoming and New Mexico, and provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage, and throughput services.