Flare and Relief Specialist

About the role

HF Sinclair's Puget Sound Refinery, located in Anacortes, Washington, is seeking a Flare and Relief Specialist. This role conducts engineering duties for an assigned discipline and functions as a technical specialist, formulating and developing advanced engineering concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of contract engineers in performing both assurance and design for flare and relief studies.
• Identify overpressure/underpressure scenarios and perform calculations, including relief device sizing.
• Coordinate unit flare and relief assurance reviews and develop/update/manage documentation.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to solve technical challenges.
• Provide technical assurance to site change management activities, operating procedures, and maintenance and turnaround activities.
• Perform special assignments or tasks as determined by the supervisor.

Requirements

• A minimum of seven years of experience in process engineering or related roles.
• An understanding of refinery processes and the elements of process safety.
• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering discipline.

Skills

• Proficiency in fundamental Chemical Engineering skills (Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Kinetics, Thermodynamics, Mass Transfer, etc.).
• Proficiency in identification of overpressure/underpressure scenarios.
• Working knowledge of relevant sections of ASME VIII, ASME XIII, API Standards 520/521/537.
• Knowledge of refinery operations.
• Preferred: Working knowledge in engineering software.
• May be responsible for the supervision of personnel as well as contractors.

Work Conditions

• Office and plant-based with up to 15% travel required.
• Subject to varying weather conditions and required to work in all temperatures, including outdoors.
• Physical requirements include standing, walking, sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, lifting or carrying up to 50 lbs, climbing up to 200 ft.
• Required to wear personal protective equipment as needed and a respirator in emergency situations (beards are not permitted).
• Ability to operate and drive all assigned company vehicles; valid state driver's license and proof of insurance required.
• May require making precise hand and finger movements, twisting, stooping, crouching, kneeling, reaching or grasping, and working in confined spaces as permitted.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Paid Time-Off
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with 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 lubricants and specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington, and Utah. The company provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage, and throughput services to its 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, supplying high-quality fuels to more than 1,750 branded stations and licensing the use of the Sinclair brand to over 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. 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.