Environmental Specialist

About the Role

HF Sinclair in Artesia, NM is seeking an Environmental Specialist to conduct environmental assignments and duties for the Environmental Department under minimal supervision. Directs or leads the work of others from time-to-time.

Responsibilities

• Ensure certifications, accuracy, completeness, and on-time submittal of environmental documentation.
• Provide technical guidance and ongoing support for the Refinery’s Title V air permit, including compliance determinations, monitoring requirements, deviation tracking, and reporting.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of air compliance programs by strengthening workflows, procedures, training materials, and knowledge-sharing practices to improve reliability, efficiency, and sustained compliance performance.
• Support and collaborate with operations, engineering, maintenance, and environmental peers to build organizational capability and resilience.
• Engage professionally and effectively with regulatory agencies through written correspondence, meetings, and verbal communications, representing the refinery with sound technical judgment and credibility.
• Manage the performance of air quality-related work efforts, including oversight of NSPS, MACT, EI, NSR, and Title V programs.
• Prepare reports pursuant to a consent decree and various permit conditions with respect to EPCRA, CERCLA, and TSCA.
• Oversee budgeting costs associated with air quality compliance and contractor/consultant work products.
• Coordinate routine modeling and tracking of anti-backsliding provisions of the fuels’ toxic baseline and related fuels regulations.
• Handle special assignments or tasks as determined by the supervisor.
• May lead the work of others and oversee contractors within the facility.

Requirements

• A minimum of eight years of job-related processing experience.
• At least five years of air quality experience with the majority in a refinery setting (for some assignments).
• Bachelor’s Degree in environmental sciences or a related field.

Skills

• Strong foundational knowledge of air quality laws, regulations, and standards, including federal NESHAP/MACT/NSPS requirements and applicable state and local air district regulations for complex manufacturing facilities.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, meet demanding regulatory deadlines, and execute work efficiently in a fast-paced operating environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to work effectively across disciplines and organizational levels, including collaboration with operations, engineering, maintenance, legal, technical specialists, and management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Advanced working knowledge of environmental air quality regulations.
• Ability to perform emissions calculations, preferably with a practical understanding of refinery processing programs.
• Advanced understanding of oil refining processes (process flow diagrams/mechanical flow sheets, chemical phase separations, and reactions).

• Preferred Skills:
• Strong data analysis skills and experience working with emissions, compliance, or monitoring datasets using tools such as Excel or environmental data systems.
• Familiarity with community right-to-know and risk management rules and/or experience with fuels compliance.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.

Work Conditions

• Office and plant-based with travel required up to 25% of the time by land or air.
• Petroleum refinery, warehouse/plant environment including exposure to chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks, and rotating equipment.
• Required to work in all temperatures, including outdoors.
• Subject to varying road and weather conditions.

Physical Requirements

• Standing, walking, sitting, twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, working in confined spaces.
• Talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, reaching or grasping.
• Lifting and/or carrying up to 50 lbs, pushing and/or pulling up to 50 lbs.
• Climbing up to 200 ft.
• Perceiving color differences.
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (beards not permitted).
• Strenuous physical activity.

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 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 other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington, and Utah, and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest, and neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the Sinclair brand at over 300 additional locations. Subsidiaries produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands, exporting products to more than 80 countries. HF Sinclair also produces renewable diesel at facilities in Wyoming and Artesia, New Mexico, and provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage, and throughput services.